The Hindu : Sci-Tech : ‘A few countries are outstanding, including India’

Use the link to access the full text article written in an FAQ format and introduced as follows: "Open access will soon get a big boost as the entire field of high-energy physics will make a switch to open access. As a result, about 7,000 particle-physics papers, accounting for 90 per cent of high-energy physics papers published in subscription journals, will soon become freely accessible to anyone from any part of the world. Unlike subscription-based journals, researchers are required to pay a fee to open-access journals to have their papers published. Salvatore Mele, who has co-ordinated the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) initiative from CERN, clarified in an email to R. Prasad the basis on which countries will contribute to the project."