PhysMath Central, BioMed Central's open access publishing platform for the fields of physics, mathematics and computer science, has announced membership agreements with the CERN and DESY high-energy physics laboratories. Under the deals, the organisations will centrally cover article-processing charges for all research published by their researchers in the peer-reviewed open access journal, PMC Physics A.
Launched in October 2007, PMC Physics A is edited by Prof. Ken Peach of University of Oxford and Royal Holloway. All articles published in the journal are made immediately and freely available on the web in their final published form and are indexed by speciality databases such as SPIRES.
This membership programme is seen as a significant, intermediate, step towards the SCOAP3 publishing model, where high-energy physics literature will be open access and article processing costs borne centrally in a transparent way for authors. The SCOAP3 consortium will be open to all high-quality peer-reviewed journals, including emerging publishing outlets as well as established titles.
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