APS and CERN make LHC articles Open Access

APS and CERN are pleased to announce that the initial experimental results from the LHC published in Physical Review Letters and Physical Review will be made available Open Access and under a Creative Commons license, for all interested parties to read and reuse. With this gesture, APS and CERN acknowledge the fundamental significance of the work being performed by these large international collaborations.

About APS: The American Physical Society is the world's largest professional body of physicists, representing over 47,000 physicists in academia and industry in the US and internationally. It has offices in College Park, MD; Ridge, NY; and Washington, DC. Contact APS: Associate Publisher, assocpub@aps.org

About CERN: CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world's leading laboratory for particle physics. It has its headquarters in Geneva. Contact CERN: Press Office, press.office@cern.ch