Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz Center for Informatics (LCI) establishes a new series of conference proceedings called Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs). The objective of this series is to publish the proceedings of high-quality conferences in all fields of computer science, and LCI institutes an Editorial Board to oversee the selection of the conferences to be included in this series.
The proceedings in the LIPIcs series will be published electronically and will be accessible freely and universally on the internet, keeping the copyrights of the authors, and under an open access license guaranteeing free dissemination. To face the cost of electronic publication, a one-time fee will be required from the conference organizers. This fee will be kept to a minimum, thought to cover the costs of LCI, thanks in particular to a sharing of the workload between LCI and the conference organizers.
Applications for publication in the LIPIcs series are already welcome, and are to be addressed to the Scientific Director of LCI. ...
The volumes in the LIPIcs series will be published electronically under an open access license. No copyright transfer to LIPIcs will be required. LIPIcs will provide a choice of possible licenses to conference organizers (initially: the Creative Common licenses that were used by STACS and FST&TCS). A minimum requirement for a license to be eligible is that it allows for identical reproduction of the papers as long as credit is given to their authors. In particular, printing these papers must be allowed, as well as non commercial distribution and posting on websites. ...
The fee for each conference aims at covering the cost of processing the corresponding volume of proceedings. In the initial period, this fee is set at 250 euros. The experience gained with the first few conferences will allow a more precise estimate of the cost of this series for LCI, and the fee will be revised accordingly. Until better insight is available, the fee will remain at most equal to 750 euros. ...
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
