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!