This year, on the occasion of what would have been the 120th birthday of Felix Bloch, first Director-General of CERN and 1952 Nobel laureate in physics, the physicist’s family generously donated his Nobel prize medal to CERN
An expanded collaboration agreement between CERN and the OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) Foundation sees the Laboratory directly hosting the OAPEN Library and the Directory of Open Access Books in its Data Centre
First-stone ceremony of the CERN Library renovation
Members of the Scientific Information Policy Board, the library renovation project team and current and former SIS colleagues joined the ceremony at the construction site
CERN is moving one step closer to achieving full open access for academic books in high-energy physics and related disciplines by participating in the SCOAP3 for books initiative