From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 3 May 2018 16:57:27 -0400 Today, in our SCOAP3 Governing Council meeting (at CERN, in Geneva), Salvatore Mele, CERN's Director of Open Access, told us that Stephen Hawking's last article, "A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation?", (with co-author Thomas Hertog) has recently been published. See: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP04%282018%29147 It will get extra-wide readership because it was published via Open Access in the Journal of High Energy Physics, thanks to the CERN-based SCOAP3 project, committed to making high-energy physics publications freely available to all readers. Article about the article here -- more accessible to non-physicists than Hawkings' piece!: https://futurism.com/stephen-hawkings-final-theory-multiverse/ About the Journal, from its web site: The Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP) is an open-access journal, APCs completely covered SCOAP3 (scoap3.org) and licensed under CC BY 4.0. JHEP is owned by the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA - Trieste, Italy) and published by Springer. The objective in running the journal is to capitalise on the innovative advantages of the new media: rapidity of communication, broad diffusion and the ability to run and distribute a journal solely by electronic means. By introducing an automated and electronic peer review system, JHEP complements the present system of preprint distribution via the online arXiv service that has so successfully replaced the conventional system. It's a privilege to be in Geneva this week, serving on the governing body of the SCOAP3 project!