Open Access: there is something you can do… | CERN

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-10-11

Summary:

" ... As of January 2014, thanks to the SCOAP3 (link is external) initiative, this opportunity is now available to the entire high-energy physics community. Together with over 2000 libraries in 38 countries, CERN has arranged for all high-energy physics results published in SCOAP3 journals (link is external) to become Open Access. Last week, CERN and the American Physical Society (APS) announced a partnership to increase the opportunities for articles with CERN authors to be published Open Access. Although APS is not participating in the current cycle of SCOAP3, articles appearing in journals such as Physical Review Letters and Physical Review D will be Open Access from the beginning of 2015. This agreement demonstrates both organisations’ commitment to working together for global Open Access ... The articles expected to appear in journals participating in SCOAP3, together with the APS partnership, mean that 95% of CERN-authored high-energy physics articles will be published Open Access in high-quality peer-reviewed journals as of 2015. This might well be a new record: on average, the number of articles published Open Access worldwide is around 10%. When including articles from other disciplines at CERN, the number is still very high, at around 85%.  However, numbers are much lower when we take conference proceedings into account. About 600 such CERN-authored papers appear every year, which are published in a wide variety of publications, often not directly influenced by CERN. Unfortunately, many of these end up being inaccessible even to the authors themselves, even though reasonable alternatives exist. The Scientific Information Service is more than happy to assist all CERN personnel who participate in conference-organising committees to explore Open Access proceedings for their conference ..."

Link:

http://home.web.cern.ch/scientists/updates/2014/10/open-access-there-something-you-can-do

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.publishing oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.aps oa.scoap3 oa.universities oa.colleges oa.libraries oa.librarians oa.hei

Date tagged:

10/11/2014, 08:18

Date published:

10/11/2014, 04:17