CERN Registers Open Access Policy

[Stevan Harnad <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

The world's largest particle physics laboratory, CERN, has just adopted
and registered its Open Access Policy at:

    http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
    http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php

Over 40,000 of CERN's research articles is now OA, and this will soon
approach 100%

    http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcdsweb.cern.ch%2F

The policy is temporarily available at:

    http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/cern.pdf

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 17:10:08 +0100 (CET)
From: Jens Vigen <vigen@mail.cern.ch>
To: Georg Botz <botz@gv.mpg.de>, Stevan Harnad <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: CERN policy on Open Access

Gentlemen,

the policy document passed yesterday!

Enclosed you will find a copy of CERN-OPEN-2005-006 which comprises our 
two policy documents on 1)Self archiving and 2)Publishing in OA journals.

A press release will be made Wednesday after Easter.

Happy reading and happy Easter,

Jens