CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has announced that it will require all peer-reviewed primary research articles from CERN authors to be published open access. To ensure compliance with the policy, the CERN Scientific Information Service (SIS) has implemented a range of mechanisms to offer CERN authors a variety of options. These mechanisms include the SCOAP3 initiative, which provides automatic open access to research in high-energy physics published in 11 leading journals, and other collective models, such as Physical Review Accelerator and Beams published by APS, the Subscribe to Open model for the Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, and the SciPost journals.
SIS has also secured agreements with major scientific publishers, including AIP, APS, Elsevier, Frontiers, IEEE, IOP, MDPI, Springer, and Wiley. These agreements provide automatic open access publishing for articles submitted by CERN corresponding authors, while still providing CERN readers with access to the publishers' content that is still under a paywall.
In addition, SIS has started three new agreements in 2023, covering the ACM Digital Library, ACS, and Nature Research Journals, bringing the total number of agreements to 12 and collectively covering over 4,000 journals. Furthermore, CERN SIS will cover the costs for open access publishing of articles that are not covered by existing mechanisms in certain cases.
It is important to note that articles submitted to journals with exceptionally high article processing charges (APCs) exceeding CHF 4000 will not be funded by CERN, except for high-profile journals such as Nature, Nature Physics, Science Advances, and others, where a detailed justification must be submitted to SIS for review and approval by the Director of Research and Computing, prior to journal submission.
CERN SIS provides an Interactive Author Guide to help CERN authors navigate open access options and offers more information about open access mechanisms at CERN on its website.
Click here to read the original press release.
