CERN Articles in American Physical Society Collection to be Open Access

The American Physical Society (APS) and The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) jointly announced a partnership to make all CERN-authored articles published in the APS journal collection to be open access. Articles in APS' Physical Review Letters, Physical Review D, and Physical Review C in 2015 and 2016 will be covered by this agreement. All physics results from CERN will benefit from this partnership, in theoretical physics and experimental physics, at the LHC accelerator as well as other experimental programs ... Although APS is not participating in the current cycle of SCOAP,3 the global Open Access initiative in physics coordinated by CERN, this agreement demonstrates both organizations’ commitment to open access publishing ... Thanks to this partnership, articles will be available free-of-charge for everyone to read. Copyright will remain with the authors and permissive Creative Commons CC-BY licenses will allow re-use of the information (e.g. in books, review articles, conference proceedings and teaching material) as well as text- and data-mining applications ..."