1. Open Access Publishing and Physical Review X Ling Miao Associate Editor Physical Review X http://prx.aps.org American Physical Society

2. What Is Open Access Publishing? Publishers: Cost of making and maintaining journals Should readers pay for the cost? Readers: Access If readers don’t, who should? Professional Management of the peer-review process: Editorial Professional composition: Style, format, technical readability Long-term preservation: Storage, maintenance, & upgrade On-line hosting: IT infrastructure Context

3. Traditional ModelOpen-access Models Who pays Access Paid (restricted) access Free access Libraries, individuals through subscriptions Authors, or their institutions, or organizations What Is Open Access Publishing?

4. Different open-access publishing models Hybrid (gold open-access) model:  Entire journals still subscribed by libraries  Individual articles made free to all readers for a fee  Fees used to reduce the subscription cost Fully open-access model:  Entire journals free to read  An article-processing charge paid for each article APS operates: Hybrid + Full OA; + Green Open Access: allow free article posting on authors’ own websites

5. APS’s Public-Access Initiative

6. The American Physical Society’s Open Access Journals On-line publication: Physical Review Special Topics: Accelerators & Beams Physical Review Special Topics: Phys. Education Res. Physical Review X: broad scope, highly selective NEW PR

7. http://physics.aps.org Free to Read

8. Why Open Access? Benefit to  Readers in general  Developing countries  Small educational or research institutions  Industrial research labs Benefit to authors: Popular demand & political drive  Broader, systematic distribution of their work  More control over financial resources for publication

9. Is Open Access the Future of Publishing? My Personal Take At the level of principle: YES, it should be! In reality: Will it be???? A Revolution Required: Global-scale restructuring of allocation of financial resources for supporting scientific publications Challenges:  Scale of the change: global  Special-interest groups against the change  Human nature: sticking to a habit The future is also in your hands!

10. PR Introducing Nature Physics Nature Materials Nature Photonics Nature Nanotechnology PRL PR NJP AIP Advances PLoS One High Profile Commercial Society Open Access (high-quality) (For acceptance: only technical correctness)

11. PR  Broad scope: Welcome: cross-topic, cross-field, cross-discipline, applied research  Highly selective publication standards (20% acceptance)  Review process: Efficient, well-informed, effective  Content delivery  Rapid publication after acceptance  Enhanced visibility by modern, dynamic on-line presentation  Publication format: Flexible length, on-line only Features  Open access

12. You Are The Future!!