Update on Open Access for the CERN community

"To ensure that the wide range of disciplines and needs of CERN researchers are supported, SIS has secured agreements with major scientific publishers (AIP, APS, Elsevier, Frontiers, IEEE, IOP, MDPI, Springer, Wiley). These agreements provide automatic Open Access publishing for articles submitted by CERN corresponding authors, while providing readers at CERN with access to the publishers’ content still under paywall. 

In 2023, SIS started three new similar agreements covering the portfolio of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Digital Library, ACS (American Chemical Society) and Nature Research Journals. This brings the total number of agreements to 12, collectively covering more than 4,000 journals. In 2023, the agreement with IOP was renewed with an extended scope, including more journals and articles. 

Finally, in certain cases, CERN SIS will cover the costs for OA publishing of articles that are not covered by the existing mechanisms. To be considered eligible, authors must contact SIS prior to submission to journals. It is important to note that articles submitted to journals with extraordinarily high APCs (in excess of CHF 4000) will not be funded by CERN. However, an exceptional mechanism is in place for articles to be published in high-profile journals (i.e. Nature, Nature Physics, Science Advances, etc.) and that are likely to receive a high public attention. In these cases, a detailed justification must be submitted to SIS for review and approval by the Director of Research and Computing, prior to journal submission...."