continues with the theme “Community over Commercialization” and is celebrated by individuals, institutions, and organizations around the world. Its organization is led by a global advisory committee.

• A panel discussion: Diamond Open Access - sustainable concept or utopian? will take place in Bremen, 21.10. 17:00 - 18:45
• FZ Jülich offers a bunch of webinars throughout the week.

For more information on Open Access publishing at DESY, you can visit our web-page or contact us directly.

The scholarly publishing system is undergoing a transformation with the aim of manifesting open access, fair criteria and transparency. The project „openCost: automated, standardized delivery and open provision of publication costs and publishing agreements" represents a building block in the development of the desired information budget. openCost can be understood as a tool to disclose financial flows and to ensure an automated and standardized infrastructure in the publication cost management of a scientific institution. This article provides an overview of the project initiative, its methodological approach, news an the openCost metadata schema and the practical advantages resulting from the technical interface and EZB extension.

(The article is in German.)

The DFG funded project „openCost" creates a technical infrastructure to comprehensively record publication cost data, make them openly distributable by means of standardized interfaces, and accessible by well known platforms like EZB, OpenAPC or the the OpenAccess Monitor.

The international conference “openCost: The Road to Publication Cost Transparency – The Next Stage” took place at the University of Regensburg from October 8 to 9. Participants from the University Libraries of Regensburg, Bielefeld, and Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron showcased project results and community reuse options.

The first session entitled Paying is not enough" put the handling of publication costs into a larger context, before the project team detailed on the more technical aspects af the metadata schema developed for recording publication costs. Discussions highlighted new functions of the Electronic Journals Library (EZB) and updates to OpenAPC. RWTH Aachen University and Geomar Helmholtz-Zentrum shared their practical implementations, including successes and challenges in tracking publication costs.

International experts participated in sessions on cost monitoring, sharing insights from Germany, France, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, and Austria. In the OpenAIRE context the Horizon Europe project PathOS discussed how transparent cost data aids strategic decision-making.

A session on transformative agreements covered key contract elements, standardization efforts, and best practices, with Cottage Labs sharing its experiences with cOAlition S.

The keynote by Joanna Ball from the Directory of Open Access Journals addressed the hidden costs of open access and the potential of Diamond Open Access as an alternative to the APC model.

A hands-on lab on publication cost recording and a workshop for repository operators provided opportunities for practical discussions.

The project team thanks all participants and speakers from nine countries for their contributions. Presentations are available on the event page.

We are the central service for scientific publishing at DESY and actively promote Open Access as part of DESYs Open Science strategy. As a founding member of join² we develop an innovative publications platform with our partners and host with PubDB our own instance.

For implementation of the new MyCoRe platform we are hiring we are hiring a junior scientist. See DESYs job offers for details.

The Review summarizes much of particle physics and cosmology. Using data from previous editions, plus 2717 new measurements from 869 papers, it lists, evaluate, and average measured properties of gauge bosons and the recently discovered Higgs boson, leptons, quarks, mesons, and baryons. It summarize searches for hypothetical particles such as supersymmetric particles, heavy bosons, axions, dark photons, etc. Particle properties and search limits are listed in Summary Tables. It give numerous tables, figures, formulae, and reviews of topics such as Higgs Boson Physics, Supersymmetry, Grand Unified Theories, Neutrino Mixing, Dark Energy, Dark Matter, Cosmology, Particle Detectors, Colliders, Probability and Statistics. Most of the 120 reviews are updated, including many that are heavily revised.

The Review is divided into two volumes. Volume 1 includes the Summary Tables and 97 review articles. You may pick up the printed edition of this volume for your daily usage at the Library.

Volume 2 consists of the Particle Listings and contains also 23 reviews that address specific aspects of the data presented in the Listings. This volume is only available online via the Particle Data Group Website.

The full Review is also available as an Open Access publication:

S. Navas et al. (Particle Data Group)
Physical Review / D 110, 030001 (2024) [10.1103/PhysRevD.110.030001]

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