• recommend guidelines to the ATLAS Collaboration Board with regards to the ATLAS publications policies
• ensure the overall quality of ATLAS documents released to the general public. This includes:
  • overseeing the preparation and publication of ATLAS General Papers
  • refereeing ATLAS Scientific Notes
  • ensuring uniformity of quality and style of ATLAS results conference proceedings and abstracts.
• identify suitable journals for ATLAS publications

Official mandate as given by the CB Feb 2000.

The PubComm consists of 12 members appointed by the ATLAS Collaboration Board for a two year term (6 are chosen every year). Amongst these 12 members are the PubComm chair and deputy chair. The Physics Coordinator is also a member of this committee.

For more information about the Publications Committee or its mandate, please contact the current chair:

Max Klein (email: klein at ifh dot de )





The ATLAS experiment supports the Open Access Paradigm. The following statement was unanimously endorsed by the ATLAS Collaboration Board on Friday February 23, 2007:

"We the ATLAS Collaboration strongly encourage the usage of electronic publishing methods for ATLAS publications and support the principles of Open Access Publishing, which includes granting free access of our ATLAS publications to all. Furthermore, we encourage all ATLAS members to publish papers in easily accessible journals, following the principles of the Open Access Paradigm."