From: Mark Chesnek <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 10:28:35 -0400

COLLEGE PARK, MD, April 27, 2017 - The American Physical Society (APS)
and The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), as the Host
Organization of SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access
Publishing in Particle Physics), are pleased to announce that they
have entered into an agreement to publish high-energy physics (HEP)
articles in three leading journals of the APS – Physical Review
Letters, Physical Review D, and Physical Review C -- under an open
access agreement. Under this agreement, authors of articles having a
primary designation of “high energy physics” on arXiv will bear no
direct cost to publish articles open access in these APS journals,
effective January 1, 2018.

This development further strengthens CERN and APS’s common interest in
better serving the worldwide physics community. APS’s CEO Kate Kirby
commented that, “APS has long supported the principles of open access
to the benefit of the scientific enterprise. As a nonprofit society
publisher and the largest international publisher of high-energy
physics content, APS has chosen to participate in the SCOAP3
initiative in support of this community.”

SCOAP3 has a guiding principle of supporting free and unrestricted
exchange of scientific information within the global scientific
community and beyond, for the advancement of particle physics.
Convened and managed by CERN, the SCOAP3initiative is a global
consortium of 3,000 libraries and research institutes from 44
countries, with the additional support of eight funding agencies.
Since its launch in 2014, SCOAP3 has made 15,000 HEP designated
articles by about 20,000 scientists from 100 countries accessible to
anyone.

Under this open access initiative, SCOAP3 pools and redirects
subscription payments from SCOAP3 participating organizations for
high-energy physics articles published in SCOAP3 participating
journals. SCOAP3 then pays publishers for making those articles open
access, based on article counts and in return, participating
publishers discount the portion of journal subscription prices for HEP
papers published open access. The arrangement acts to support the
publishing of open access content for wider benefit of the community.

With the new agreement between CERN and the APS, SCOAP3 will cover as
much as 87 percent of the literature in the field of high-energy
physics. “Open access reflects values and goals that have been
enshrined in CERN’s Convention for more than sixty years, such as the
widest dissemination of scientific results. We are very pleased that
the APS is joining SCOAP3 and we look forward to welcoming more
partners for the long-term success of this initiative” said Fabiola
Gianotti, CERN’s Director General.

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About APS

The American Physical Society is a nonprofit membership organization
working to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics through its
outstanding research journals, scientific meetings, and education,
outreach, advocacy and international activities. APS represents 54,000
members, including physicists in academia, national laboratories and
industry in the United States and throughout the world.

About CERN

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the
world's leading laboratories for particle physics. The Organization is
located on the French-Swiss border, with its headquarters in Geneva.
Its Member States are: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic,
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy,
Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain,
Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Cyprus and Serbia are
Associate Member States in the pre-stage to Membership. India,
Pakistan, Turkey and Ukraine are Associate Member States. The European
Union, Japan, JINR, the Russian Federation, UNESCO and the United
States of America currently have Observer status.