EPL offers Open Access for high-energy physics papers
EPL, the letters journal of the European Physical Society (EPS), is now offering Open Access publication free of charge for papers from nuclear and particle physics. For some time, EPL (formerly Europhysics Letters), has offered Open Access to individual articles in its online edition (www.epljournal.org) against a fee charged to the authors. This fee is now being waived for papers from PACS groups 10 (high-energy physics) and 20 (nuclear physics).
This offer is a transitional measure in anticipation of when EPL joins the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access to all Particle Physics Publications (SCOAP3) and to express the support of the EPS for the SCOAP3 initiative, launched by CERN in 2007. In addition, to broaden the expertise of the EPL Editorial Board in nuclear physics, relativistic heavy-ion physics and particle physics, during the past year four representatives of these fields have joined as co-editors. They are Peter Jacobs (Berkeley), Rüdiger Voss (CERN), Dieter Zeppenfeld (Karlsruhe) and Vladimir Zelevinsky (Michigan).
• For more information about the SCOAP3 initiative, see www.scoap3.org.
Visits
The Cypriot minister of education and culture, Andreas Demetriou (right), was welcomed to CERN by the director-general, Rolf Heuer, on 11 June. During his visit, Demetriou learnt about the LHC Computing Grid project and applications of CERN's technology in the life sciences and medicine, as well as opportunities in education and training.
The presidents of Argentina, Mozambique and Poland visited CERN on 15 June while in Geneva for the International Labour Organization's summit on the Global Jobs Pact, held on 15–17 June. Cristina Fernández, President of Argentina (right) toured the ATLAS experiment and also visited the ATLAS control room, as well as meeting Argentine staff at CERN.
Mozambique's president, Armando Guebuza (below, right), visited the CMS experiment together with CERN's co-ordinator for external relations, Felicitas Pauss (centre) and CMS spokesperson, Jim Virdee.
Polish president Lech Kaczyński and First Lady Maria Kaczyńska (bottom right) also visited the CMS experiment and met Polish CERN staff.