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.
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-The Executive
Summary of the Report of the SCOAP3
Working Party
-The complete report
15/07/2008, NERL joins SCOAP3
The NorthEast Research Libraries consortium, NERL, has joined SCOAP3. With NERL, SCOAP3 now counts partners in 16 countries and an international organization, which have collectively pledged 4.5 million Euros (7.2 million U.S. dollars) corresponding to 45% of the global SCOAP3 budget envelope.
Since SCOAP3 was first promoted in the U.S at the end of February, 44 U.S. partners (library consortia, national laboratories and individual libraries) have already pledged about half of the expected U.S. contribution to SCOAP3.
11/07/2008, GWLA joins SCOAP3
GWLA, the Great Western Library Alliance, has joined SCOAP3 on behalf of 18 of its members, with more expected to join in the near future. The Deans and Directors of GWLA had already endorsed SCOAP3 project.
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