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CERN & DESY become PhysMath Central members
We are very proud to announce PhysMath Central membership agreements with the CERN and DESY high-energy physics laboratories. Under these agreements the organizations will centrally cover article-processing charges for all research published by their investigators in the peer-reviewed, open access journal, PMC Physics A.
This reinforces CERN and DESY's commitment to supporting open access publication of the research from their laboratories. Central funding for article processing charges makes life much simpler for authors, and so accelerates the take up of open access.
Jens Vigen, CERN head librarian commented "This membership program is an important, intermediate, step towards the SCOAP3 publishing model, where high-energy physics literature will be open access and article processing costs borne centrally in a transparent way for authors". Salvatore Mele, SCOAP3 project leader, echoing Vigen's views, stated "The SCOAP3 consortium will be open to all high-quality peer-reviewed journals, including emerging publishing outlets as well as established titles".
>> Read the full press release here.
UPDATE: Rolf Dieter-Heuer of DESY & PMC Physics A editorial board (and quoted in the press release above) has today been officially announced as the new Director General of CERN. He takes over his new role from Robert Aymar in January 2009.
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