APS has signed an agreement with CERN to continue to include three of its world-leading journals in the third three-year phase of SCOAP
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(Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics), which commences January 1, 2020. The arrangement means high-energy physics (HEP) articles accepted by
Physical Review Letters
,
Physical Review C
, and
Physical Review D
will be published open access and funded by SCOAP
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, with no publication charges for authors. APS is extending its participation in SCOAP
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as a continuance of its commitment to open access, as
adopted by APS Council in 2009
.