FAIRsharing record for: Open Access Policy for CERN Publications

This FAIRsharing record describes: The CERN Open Access Policy, authored by the CERN Scientific Information Policy Board, reflects the ongoing values that have been enshrined in the CERN Convention for more than sixty years. This policy, reaffirmed in the ‘2020 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics’, have become increasingly more important for the Member States, the European Commission, and other institutional partners across the world. As part of this policy, CERN authors are required to publish all of their peer-reviewed primary research articles open access (by default under a Creative Commons attribution license, i.e. CC-BY-4.0), Peer-reviewed primary research articles are all articles that describe original research and are accepted for publication following a peer-review process. As such, conference proceedings, editorials and secondary sources (review articles, meta-analyses, and systematic reviews, etc.) are not covered by this policy.