Monthly Archives: December 2007

Denmark joins SCOAP3

December 20, 2007

The Danish Library Agency signs the Expression of Interest to join SCOAP3, pledging the Danish contribution to the consortium. The Danish Library Agency represents the Denmark Electronic Research Library (DEFF).DEFF is an organisational and technological partnership betweenresearch libraries co-financed by the Ministry of Science, Technologyand Innovation, the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education.

SCOAP3is rapidly gaining momentum: within a few months, many European countries have expressed their interest in joining the consortium and many moreare expected to follow suit in the coming months, with more and moreawareness rising in the rest of the world. Over a third of the requiredbudget envelope has already been pledged or will be […]

CERN Council today appointed Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer as next CERN Director General.Professor Heuer will serve a five-year term, taking office on 1 January2009. His mandate will cover the early years of operation and firstscientific results from the Laboratory’s new flagship researchfacility, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scheduled to begin operationin summer 2008. The present CERN […]