The High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) advises the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. National Science Foundation on the conduct of experimental and theoretical high energy physics (HEP) research and accelerator R&D. On November 30th, HEPAP listened to two presentations on Open Access. An Open Access primer by Gene Sprouse, editor in chief […]
Presentation by Rolf-Dieter Heuer at APE2008, Berlin
January 22, 2008
Prof. Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Reserch director of DESY and Director-General Elect of CERN spoke of “Innovation in Scholarly Communication: Vision and Projects from High Energy Physics” in his opening keynote address the APE2008 conference, “Academic Publishing in Europe, Quality and Publishing”. The main messages of his talk were:
Open Access at the Terascale
January 18, 2008
The Strategic Helmholtz Alliance ‘Physics at the Terascale’ fully supports the goal of SCOAP3 of free and unrestricted electronic access to peer-reviewed journal literature in particle physics and is convinced that the proposed fair-share business model will promote a healthy and dynamic market and will benefit scientists, authors, funding agencies and publishers alike.Unrestricted access to […]
Austria joins SCOAP3
January 14, 2008
The Institute of High Energy Physics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences signs the Expression of Interest to join the SCOAP3 consortium. The participation in the consortium will involve all Austrian High Energy Physics institutes and their Libraries.
Norway joins SCOAP3
January 9, 2008
The Norwegian association of higher education institutions (UHR) signs the Expression of Interest to join SCOAP3 on behalf of the Kingdom. The participation is strongly supported by both the national Research Council and the Physics Council. Read the expression of interest