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Where to publish?

CERN authors are encouraged to publish in Open Access as per CERN Open Access publication policy.

Below, you will find the list of journals and conference proceedings publishers which provide Open Access publication for CERN authors.

Journals

Acta Physica Polonica B (Jagellonian University)

  • The journal is free to read for everyone
  • No individual article charge has to be paid by the author
  • Authors have to sign a Copyright transfer

Advances in High Energy Physics (Hindawi)

  • Full Open Access journal
  • Creative Commons Attribution license
  • Individual article charge is required (The fees will be, in most cases, covered by the CERN Library if there is at least one CERN-author. Please contact us beforehand.)
  • Copyright retained by the author

Advances in Mathematical Physics (Hindawi)

  • Full Open Access journal
  • Creative Commons Attribution license
  • No article charge is required for the time being
  • Copyright retained by the author

African Review of Physics (ICTP)

  • Full Open Access journal
  • Articles are free to use with proper attribution in educationsla and other non-commercial settings.
  • No article charge is required
  • Copyright retained by the author

European Physical Journal C (Springer)

  • Subscription journal with Open Access option
  • CERN Open Access agreement
    • All LHC articles are published Open Access
    • Creative Commons Attribution license
    • No individual article charge is required
    • Copyright retained by CERN

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) (SISSA/IOP)

  • Subscription journal with Open Access option (Institutional membership)
  • CERN Open Access agreement
    • All CERN articles are published Open Access
    • Creative Commons Attribution license
    • No individual article charge is required
    • Copyright retained by CERN

Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP) (SISSA/Springer)

  • Subscription journal with Open Access option (Institutional membership)
  • CERN Open Access agreement
    • All CERN articles are published Open Access
    • Creative Commons Attribution license
    • No individual article charge is required
    • Copyright retained by CERN

Journal of instrumentation (SISSA/IOP)

  • Subscription journal with Open Access option (Institutional membership)
  • CERN Open Access agreement
    • All CERN articles are published Open Access
    • Creative Commons Attribution license
    • No individual article charge is required
    • Copyright retained by CERN

Nature communications (NPG)

  • Subscription journal with Open Access option
  • Open Access are published under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license or Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share
  • Individual article charge is required (The fees will be, in most cases, covered by the CERN Library if there is at least one CERN-author. Please contact us beforehand.)

New journal of physics (IOP)

  • Full Open Access journal
  • Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license ()
  • Individual article charge is required (The fees will be, in most cases, covered by the CERN Library if there is at least one CERN-author. Please contact us beforehand.)
  • Authors have to sign the NJP copyright statement

Nuclear Physics B (Elsevier)

  • Subscription journal with Open Access option
  • CERN Open Access agreement
    • All LHC articles are published Open Access
    • Creative Commons Attribution license
    • No individual article charge is required
    • Copyright retained by CERN

Physics Letters B (Elsevier)

  • Subscription journal with Open Access option
  • CERN Open Access agreement
    • All LHC articles are published Open Access
    • Creative Commons Attribution license
    • No individual article charge is required
    • Copyright retained by CERN

Physical review A (APS)

  • Subscription journal with Open Access option
  • CERN Open Access agreement
    • All CERN articles are published Open Access
    • Creative Commons Attribution license
    • No individual article charge is required
    • Copyright retained by CERN

Physical review B (APS)

  • Subscription journal with Open Access option
  • CERN Open Access agreement
    • All CERN articles are published Open Access
    • Creative Commons Attribution license
    • No individual article charge is required
    • Copyright retained by CERN

Physical review C (APS)

  • Subscription journal with Open Access option
  • CERN Open Access agreement
    • All CERN articles are published Open Access
    • Creative Commons Attribution license
    • No individual article charge is required
    • Copyright retained by CERN

Physical review D (APS)

  • Subscription journal with Open Access option
  • CERN Open Access agreement
    • All CERN articles are published Open Access
    • Creative Commons Attribution license
    • No individual article charge is required
    • Copyright retained by CERN

Physical review E (APS)

  • Subscription journal with Open Access option
  • CERN Open Access agreement
    • All CERN articles are published Open Access
    • Creative Commons Attribution license
    • No individual article charge is required
    • Copyright retained by CERN

Physical review X (APS)

  • Full Open Access Journal
  • Creative Commons Attribution license
  • No individual article charge is required
  • Copyright retained by the author

Physical review letters (APS)

  • Subscription journal with Open Access option
  • CERN Open Access agreement
    • All CERN articles are published Open Access
    • Creative Commons Attribution license
    • No individual article charge is required
    • Copyright retained by CERN

Physical Review Special Topics: Accelerators and Beams (APS)

  • Full open access journal
  • Creative Commons Attribution license
  • No individual article charge has to be paid
  • Copyright retained by the author

Reviews of modern Physics (APS)

  • Subscription journal with Open Access option
  • CERN Open Access agreement
    • All CERN articles are published Open Access
    • Creative Commons Attribution license
    • No individual article charge is required
    • Copyright retained by CERN

Conference proceedings

Below, you find a list of publishers who publish Open Access conference proceedings.

The cost depends on the requested service level. The approximative cost for the online publication of conference proceedings goes from 1000 to 3000 euros (depending on the number of articles), with additional costs for printed copies (between 15 and 25 euros per copy).

However, in order to receive precise quotations, conference organizers have to contact the publishers directly. Please contact CERN Library if you need any advice.

eConf Electronic Conference Proceedings Archive (SLAC)

  • Free of charge
  • This service provides web-accessible archive for the proceedings of scientific conferences in High-Energy Physics and related fields
  • Contact

EPJ Web of Conferences (EDP Science)

  • EPJ Web of conferences is an open-access journal dedicated to archiving conference proceedings in pure and applied physics.
  • Creative Commons Attribution license
  • No individual article charge is required
  • Copyright retained by the author
  • Contact

Journal of Physics: Conference Series (IOP)

  • Journal of Physics conference series provides open access proceedings publication service.
  • Published under IOP License
  • Copyright retained by the author
  • To know the price, use the quotation system

Joint Accelerator Conference Website (JACoW)

  • Jacow ensures the open access publication of the proceedings of particle accelerator conferences
  • The service is free of charge
  • Contact

Proceedings of Science (PoS) (SISSA)

  • PoS provides open access proceedings publication service.
  • Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share
  • Copyright retained by the author
  • Contact