The California Digital Library has joined SCOAP3 on behalf of the
ten Campuses of
UC Berkeley
, UC Davis
, UC Irvine
, UC Los Angeles
, UC Merced
, UC Riverside
, UC San Diego
, UC San Francisco
, UC Santa Barbara
, UC Santa Cruz. These institutes become the
first to join SCOAP3 in the United States.
The University of California stated: "We find the consortial funding
model of SCOAP3 both intriguing and innovative and are impressed with
the level
of support that SCOAP3 has been able to garner in Europe to date.
Any proposal that holds out promise for
placing scholarly publishing on a more sustainable and open footing
is a welcome development."
The SCOAP3 fund-raising is
complete in 12 European countries, with more European countries expected to join soon.
Today, the fund-raising in the United States has started, and will be
boosted by the SCOAP3 US Focal Meeting.
