1. Champion in self archiving A few relevant OA journals exist Many core journals behind unreasonable high subscription barriers Open Access How is astroparticle physics situated? CERN is not alone! Among others we have: Max Planck Gesellschaft (MPG) Research Council UK (RCUK) Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) … and CAST of course!

2. Open Access Fame versus accessibility…? Particle Physics: The first axion? Steve Lamoreaux Nature 441, 31-32 (4 May 2006) Open access and citation impact The Open Citation Project

3. Open Access What do we have? Journals Instrumentation – Journal of Instrumentation (SISSA/IOP)Journal of Instrumentation Physics – New journal of physics (IOP/DPG)New journal of physics – EPJ A direct and EPJ C direct (Springer)EPJ A direct EPJ C direct – J. Astrophys. Astron. (Indian Acad. Sci.)J. Astrophys. Astron. – Living Reviews in Solar Physics (Max Planck)Living Reviews in Solar Physics When will JCAP convert?

4. Open Access What do we have? Conference proceedings – PoS - Proceedings of Science (SISSA)PoS - Proceedings of Science – Journal of Physics: Conference Series (IOP)Journal of Physics: Conference Series – eProceedings (World Sci.)eProceedings – eConf: Electronic Conference Proceedings Archive (SLAC)eConf: Electronic Conference Proceedings Archive – InDiCo (CERN)InDiCo – CERN Yellow Reports (CERN)CERN Yellow Reports

5. Open Access What do we have? Old stuff made available in open access Science – Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA) (v.1 1915 -2004)Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA) Physics – Gallica (i.e. Annalen der Physik (v.1 1799-1930))GallicaAnnalen der Physik Astronomy and astrophysics – NASA ADS (i.e. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. (v.1 1827-2002))NASA ADSMon. Not. R. Astron. Soc.

6. American Institute of Physics Author SelectAuthor Select:1500 $/article Springer Open ChoiceOpen Choice: 3000 $/article Open Access Hybrid models

7. OA - Authors own interest Visibility OA journals are available to everybody Impact OA articles cited more often Recognition New impact measures in progress Librarians request: Support pioneering OA journals Submit papers (i.e.JCAP, JINST, NJP) Long-term archiving Submit preprints to institutional repositories

8. Open Access Making the data available? E-Science and open access Tony Hey: “The purpose of the UK e-Science initiative is to allow scientists to do 'faster, better or different' research.” OECD report on access to data: “ …publicly funded research data should be openly available to the maximum extent possible.” CAST: Let the data free! CERN Courier, 43, 4 (2003) CERN involvement: important signal effect LHC data complex to offer … Data pre-processing requires resources In the case of CAST: a good student full time Concorde (15 Km) Balloon (30 Km) CD stack with 1 year LHC data! (~ 20 Km) Mt. Blanc (4.8 Km)

9. Magic moment The OA discussion is burning … Not too quickly We should take our time, 6 months sooner or later makes little difference Not too slowly We will have a hard time simply to follow what we have initiated ourselves ….