JHEP is notable for providing free online access to the current month's published papers, and to the complete 1997-2004 archive. Developing and low-income countries are granted access to JHEP at no charge or at considerably discounted rates.[1]
The copyright of papers accepted for publication is transferred to JHEP. However, authors retain a personal licence to post and update the paper on free e-print servers and to copy and reuse the paper for non-commercial purposes.[2]
The old JHEP conference proceedings supplement has been incorporated into the Proceedings of Science.