Contributions to conference proceedings are not covered by the CERN Open Access Policy, owing to the vast variety of conferences and publication venues. No central funds are made available for covering open access to conference proceedings. Contributions by CERN Authors should be submitted to the CERN Document Server (CDS) or arXiv.org. Conference organisers who would like to publish entire volumes of conference proceedings open access are invited to contact us: @email. We can advise on existing cost-effective options through established publishers.

Below, you find a list of publishers who publish open access conference proceedings.

The cost depends on the requested service level. However, in order to receive precise quotations, conference organizers have to contact the publishers directly.

AIP Conference Proceedings (AIP)

• AIP Conference proceedings publishes proceedings of events in physics, materials science, and relevant mathematical disciplines.
• Copyright retained by the author.
• Fees have to be paid, conference organizers have to contact the publisher directly.
  (Please contact @email beforehand if you need any advice.)

Advances in Physics Research (Atlantis Press)

• Atlantis Press offers an open access publishing platform for conferences in many disciplines. Advances in Physics Research aims at publishing proceedings from conferences on the theories and methods in field of physics.
    Creative Commons Attribution license
• Copyright retained by the author.
• Fees have to be paid, conference organizers have to contact the publisher directly.
  (Please contact @email beforehand if you need any advice.)

EPJ Web of Conferences (EDP Science)

• EPJ Web of conferences is an open access journal dedicated to archiving conference proceedings in pure and applied physics.
    Creative Commons Attribution license
• Copyright retained by the author.
• Fees have to be paid, conference organizers have to contact the publisher directly.
  (Please contact @email beforehand if you need any advice.)

International Journal of Modern Physics: Conference series (World Scientific)

• IJMP Conference Series publishes proceeding in the field of physics and related sciences.
• Copyright retained by the author.
• For more information, conference organizers have to contact the publisher directly.
  (Please contact @email beforehand if you need any advice.)

Journal of Physics: Conference Series (IOP)

• Journal of Physics conference series provides open access proceedings publication service.
    Creative Commons Attribution license
• Copyright retained by the author.
• Fees have to be paid, conference organizers have to contact the publisher directly.
  (Please contact @email beforehand if you need any advice.)

Joint Accelerator Conference Website (JACoW)

• Jacow ensures the open access publication of the proceedings of particle accelerator conferences.
    Creative Commons Attribution license
• Copyright retained by the author.
• No fee has to be paid.
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Knowledge E

• Knowledge E provides open access proceedings publication service.
    Creative Commons Attribution license
• Copyright retained by the author.
• Fees have to be paid, conference organizers have to contact the publisher directly.
  (Please contact @email beforehand if you need any advice.)

Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings (Elsevier)

• Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings offers open access option for single issues, as agreed with guest editors.
    Creative Commons Attribution license
• Copyright retained by the author.
• Fees have to be paid, conference organizers have to contact the publisher directly.
  (Please contact @email beforehand if you need any advice.)

Physics Procedia (Elsevier)

• Physics Procedia is an e-only and open access product focusing entirely on publishing conference proceedings.
    Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
• Authors have to sign a copyright transfer.
• Fees have to be paid, conference organizers have to contact the publisher directly.
  (Please contact @email beforehand if you need any advice.)

Proceedings of Science (PoS) (SISSA)

• PoS provides open access proceedings publication service.
    Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share
• Copyright retained by the author.
• Fees have to be paid, conference organizers have to contact the publisher directly.
  (Please contact @email beforehand if you need any advice.)

SciPost Physics Proceedings (SciPost)

• SciPost Physics Proceedings provides open access proceedings publication service for general field of Physics.
    Creative Commons Attribution license
• Copyright retained by the author.
• No Article Processing Charges (APCs). conference organizers have to contact the publisher directly.
  (Please contact @email beforehand if you need any advice.)