CERN

Funder Information

Funder Name
CERN [English]
Funder URLs
Identifiers
Country
Switzerland

Requires Open Access Archiving

Requirement
CERN requires Open Access Archiving
What to archive
  • Conference papers
  • Executive summaries
  • Peer-reviewed publications
  • Any publications
  • Project reports
Publication version
Author's final version
When to archive
At the earliest possible opportunity
Where to archive
Named repository
Named Repositories
CERN Document Server (CDS) http://cdsweb.cern.ch/ (Required)
Special Conditions
Operational Circular no. 6 requires every CERN Author to submit a copy of their scientific documents to the CERN Document Server (CDS).

Requires Open Access Publishing

Requirement
CERN requires Open Access Publishing
Where to publish
in a peer-reviewed open access journal (Preferred)
OA Publishing Licence
CC BY v4.0 [applies to all]
Special Conditions
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), CERN authors should publish, as much as possible, in the journals covered by SCOAP

General Open Access Policy

Effective for all current projects from:
1 January 2014
Application scope
  • Applies to all fully or partly funded projects
  • Applies to work conducted using funder's facilities
Notes
  • In January 2014, CERN and international partners in nearly 50 countries launched the SCOAP3 initiative, which has converted most journals in the field to Gold Open Access at no cost for authors
  • CERN authors should publish their physics papers in the journals covered by SCOAP
  • Open Access publishing for the majority of research articles outside of the SCOAP3 journals is supported through dedicated arrangements with publishers
Policy Links

Requires Open Data Archiving

Requirement
CERN requires Open Data Archiving
Types of Data
  • Research Data
  • Supporting Documentation
When to archive
At the earliest possible opportunity
Where to archive
Any appropriate repository (Required )
Named Repositories
Special Conditions
Different CERN projects have different requirements for Open Access to Data, please see individual project guidance for details, CERN Level 1 data associated with journal publications must be made available via appropriate repositories, CERN Level 2 may be made open access according to a release policy of the project, CERN Level 3 data may be released under a reasonable embargo period, with a maximum of 10 years depending on CERN Data Level and Project, CERN Level 4 data can not be made open access, Creative Commons licenses and Digital Object Identifiers are encouraged
Policy links
CERN Open Data Policies [Policy]: http://opendata.cern.ch/collection/Data-Policies

Record Information

ID
26
Date Created
14 August 2007 14:31:05 UTC
Last Modified
23 August 2023 13:38:04 UTC
URI
https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/funder/26
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