The European Physical Journal (EPJ) C, one of the eight journals in the EPJ family, has reportedly converted to no-fee open access (OA) for all its research articles as of November 1, 2007. The journal, for the past year, has been a hybrid OA journal charging a fee for the OA option.
Jointly published by Springer, EDP Sciences, and Società Italiana di Fisica, EPJ C presents new and original research results in Theoretical physics and Experimental physics, in a variety of formats, including regular articles, reviews, tools for experiment and theory, scientific notes and letters.
According to a statement recently issued by the journal, in anticipation of successful negotiations with interested OA funding agencies, as of today and until such negotiations have taken place before or by the end of 2008, all experimental papers submitted to and accepted by The European Physical Journal C - Particles and Fields will be published with full, online open access without any fees being incurred by the authors. The paper categories concerned are letters, regular articles as well as scientific notes and tools articles on experimental physics.
This extends the scope of the present default scheme for publishing with online open access in any of the EPJ journals at a discounted price of EUR 1000 per article, with letter articles already being free of charge and open access by default for EPJ A and EPJ C since November 2006.
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