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SUMMARY: Colloquium on Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20051207T123000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20051208T140000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130524T152144Z
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DESCRIPTION:To promote a change in the current publishing model the Direct
 or-General organised the open meeting\, particularly aimed at CERN authors
  and editors\, on the 16th September to discuss the requirements for makin
 g open access publishing an attractive publishing model for the particle p
 hysics community.\nThe meeting was attended by more than a hundred physici
 sts and the following debate showed that the author community is ready to 
 explore new publishing patterns even if there are many issues to be taken 
 into account in order to achieve a successful change.\n\nPrior to this eve
 n\, in June 2005\, representatives from the LHC Collaborations\, CERN's Sc
 ientific Information Policy Board and the CERN Library met to discuss vari
 ous possible scenarios for publishing LHC physics results obtained from th
 e experiments planned to start in 2007.\n\nAll parties agreed that particl
 e physics results from the last 10 years are basically 100% freely availab
 le through arXiv.org\, CERN Document Server and SLAC SPIRES. However\, thi
 s availability has not significantly changed the publishing pattern of the
  community and the criteria for academic advancements and yet this publish
 ing system is currently under pressure to change from the open access move
 ment. Given that open access is practically already achieved in particle p
 hysics through the freely available electronic archives of pre- and post-p
 rints\, the distribution and peer-review of papers for this field could in
  future remain within the current publishing model.\n\nHowever\, as the pr
 ices of subscription journals are continually increasing by a factor many 
 times that of the average inflation and as new technologies have created a
 lternative possibilities for distribution of scientific results\, it is cl
 ear to the group that it is a desirable goal to modify the present publish
 ing model towards open access and low cost journals. The open access movem
 ent gives added impetus to a change that is also desirable for other reaso
 ns.\nProf. Daniele Amati\, the founder of the Journal of High Energy Physi
 cs (JHEP) and an open access publishing pioneer\, was invited to present t
 he history of JHEP and its vision for open access publishing. The LHC coll
 aborations feel positive about exploring new publishing models provided th
 at features such as peer-review and long-term archiving are preserved. It 
 is also of high importance that the funding agencies start to consider pub
 lication costs as being part of research budgets.\nIn addition\, it was st
 ressed that open access publishing requires a range of actors\, as has bee
 n the case under the current paradigm\, in order to regulate the market an
 d maintain a healthy competition among the publishers. To promote a change
  in the current publishing model CERN proposes a meeting of all parties in
 volved in the current publication chain but who are also interested in ope
 n access publishing. By gathering those publishers that are favourable to 
 OA\, funding agencies and research institutions together to discuss the fu
 ture of scientific communication in physics\, CERN strongly believes that 
 a change\, albeit with all the problems such a change will imply\, can be 
 achieved through a transition plan expressing a common understanding of al
 l the parties involved. The first meeting for planning this transition is 
 proposed for the 7/8 December at CERN. The meeting will hopefully result i
 n the establishment of a task-force\, and possibly in the agreement of som
 e concrete decisions for a way forward. Its timing is intended to allow th
 e presentation of a report at the high profile Berlin 4 conference\, which
  is pioneering the Open Access movement\, and is expected to take place in
  Germany in the spring of 2006.\n\nhttp://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay
 .py?confId=482
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