10 September 2007
http://www.interactions.org
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Source: IN2P3/CNRS
Content: Press Release
Date Issued: 10 September 2007
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*OPEN ACCESS TO HIGH ENERGIES*
The CNRS Institut de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules
(IN2P3) has just signed an agreement with the Journal of High Energy
Physics stating that the articles written by its researchers will be
made freely available without charge to the whole international
community. In doing this, the Institute is pursuing its commitment to
publications in open access scientific peer-reviewed journals.
IN2P3 was already committed to the international movement for making
scientific publications freely available to all. It is one of the key
players in the European project, the "Sponsoring Consortium for Open
Access Publishing in Particle Physics" (SCOAP3), launched by CERN in
2006, which includes European physicists, funding bodies and libraries.
The aim is to create a new model for funding publications, where the
funding comes from the research institutions to which the researchers
belong, and not the readers, as previously. This should make it possible
to circulate results openly, at no cost to readers.
The signing of the agreement today marks a new step in the process. The
signatories are the IN2P3 and the Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP),
one of the leading journals in the field of high energies, published by
the Institute of Physics, an international organization working to
further understanding and applications of physics. Based on this
agreement, any articles published in the JHEP having one of its authors
affiliated to a French organization will, from now on, be financed by
the IN2P3 and made freely available in open access to the whole of the
international community.
This important progress in open access publishing meets the scientific
quality recommendations of the SCOAP3 project, because quality of open
access articles is as high as those of hard copy articles, since they go
through the same channels of validation and selection by peer review.
contact information
IN2P3
Dominique Jarroux-Declais
T 04 72 4312 67
d.jarroux@ipnl.in2p3.fr
Public Information Officer
Claire Le Poulennec
T 01 44 96 49 88
Claire.le-poulennec@cnrs-dir.fr
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