CERN and Elsevier today announced that articles published by CERN authors in Elsevier Physics journals that are not covered by the SCOAP3 Open Access initiative will now be Open Access
Thanks to this agreement, CERN results in fields such as nuclear physics, instrumentation, astroparticle physics and scientific computing will appear as Open Access articles, with copyright retained by CERN and its authors, and reuse determined by Creative Commons CC-BY licenses. This allows CERN to progress further towards its stated target of 100% ‘gold’ Open Access for all of its physics results as of 2015.
This new agreement covers all articles with at least one author affiliated to CERN, published in 2015 and 2016 in the following Elsevier journals: Nuclear Instruments and Methods A, Nuclear Physics A, Physics of the Dark Universe and SoftwareX. These conditions have also been retroactively extended to eligible articles that were published in 2014 in the same journals.
CERN and Elsevier, together with a consortium of thousands of libraries from all over the world, are already successfully cooperating in the SCOAP3 initiative, a separate agreement that has converted important scientific journals such as Elsevier’s Physics Letters B and Nuclear Physics B to Open Access at no cost for any author worldwide.
Gigi Rolandi, Senior Physicist at CERN, and head of the CERN Scientific Information Policy Board said: “This agreement is important for the CERN scientific community. After the successful transition of our high-energy physics results to Open Access, our scientists and collaborations are also now able to fully benefit from Open Access conditions, at no direct cost, for nuclear physics and astroparticle physics results and for our complementary research activity in instrumentation and scientific computing.”
Charon Duermeijer, Physics Publishing Director at Elsevier, says “I am excited that our close working relationship over recent years has now resulted in further strengthening our ties. I am already looking forward to new connections!”