CERN, the particle-physics laboratory in Geneva, is implementing a financial incentive program for academic publishers to encourage the adoption of open science policies. This initiative, part of CERN’s agreement with 11 particle-physics journals, aims to increase transparency in research by compensating publishers based on their commitment to open practices. The program builds upon previously successful efforts with the SCOAP 3 initiative, which has already supported over 70,000 open-access articles, and reflects a growing trend towards openness in the scientific community despite concerns about potential fee increases from publishers.
The current scheme sees those journals publish work from the field openly and at no cost to authors, in exchange for bulk payments.
Under the next phase of the programme, known as the Open Science Mechanism, CERN will score the journals' publishers on how well they adopt open-science practices.
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