A consortium facilitates Open Access publishing in High Energy Physics by re-directing subscription money. This answers the request of the High Energy Physics community.
Today: (funding bodies through) libraries buy journal subscriptions to support the peer-review service and allow their patrons to read articles.
Tomorrow: funding bodies and libraries contribute to the consortium, which pays centrally for the peer-review service. Articles are free to read for everyone.
Read now:
-The Executive
Summary of the Report of the SCOAP3
Working Party
-The complete report
01/07/2009, Join the SCOAP3 Forum at ALA in Chicago on July 11th!
The SCOAP3 Open Access initiative has a unique potential to transform scholarly communication. It offers U.S. libraries an innovative, cost-neutral, way to achieve Open Access without incurring in additional author fees. Come to the SCOAP3 forum at ALA in Chicago on July 11th to learn more and ask your questions!
SCOAP3 aims to convert High-Energy Physics literature to Open Access by re-directing current subscription expenditures to a consortium that will centrally pay journals for peer-review and other editorial services, making articles Open Access.
SCOAP3 has so far collected pledges for a total of 9 Million $/year from partners in 22 countries, corresponding to 63% of its worldwide budget envelope. In the U.S., leading libraries and library consortia have signed an Expression of Interest pledging to support the SCOAP3 initiative, if successful. These pledges represent 2.5 Million $/year, over 70% of the expected U.S. contribution. However, additional pledges for about 1 Million $/year are still needed to allow the initiative to move forward.
The forum, hosted by SCOAP3 spokesperson Salvatore Mele from CERN, will take place on Saturday, July 11th 2009, 12:00pm-2:00pm at the Hyatt Regency, 151 East Wacker Drive, Truffles Room. Attendance is free and a light lunch will be available, but participants are kindly invited to register online at http://tinyurl.com/scoap3-at-ala where questions can be submitted in advance.
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23/06/2009, Finland joins SCOAP3
The FinELib has joined SCOAP3 on behalf of Finland.
With Finland, the SCOAP3 membership now counts 21 countries in America, Australasia, Europe and the Middle East, as well as large number of leading U.S. libraries and an
international organization. These partners have collectively pledged 63% of the SCOAP3 budget envelope of 10 million Euros/year.
