CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has operated an
institutional preprint repository for more than 10 years. The repository
contains over 850,000 records of which more than 450,000 are full-text OA
preprints, mostly in the field of particle physics, and it is integrated with
the library's holdings of books, conference proceedings, journals and other
grey literature. In order to encourage effective propagation and open access to
scholarly material, CERN is implementing a range of innovative library services
into its document repository: automatic keywording, reference extraction,
collaborative management tools and bibliometric tools. Some of these services,
such as user reviewing and automatic metadata extraction, could make up an
interesting testbed for future publishing solutions and certainly provide an
exciting environment for e-science possibilities. The future protocol for
scientific communication should naturally guide authors towards OA publication
and CERN wants to help reach a full open access publishing environment for the
particle physics community and the related sciences in the next few years.Comment: 8 pages, to appear in Library and Information Systems in Astronomy
