Monthly Archives: November 2008

Israel joins SCOAP3

November 21, 2008

The Israeli Science Foundation and the Israeli Committee for High Energy Physics have joined SCOAP3 on behalf of Israel. Israel becomes the 19th country to join the SCOAP3 consortium, which counts countries in Europe, Australasia and the Middle East, as well as a large number of leading U.S. libraries and CERN, an international research organisation […]

Europhysics Letters announced that it will “offer open access free of charge to all authors submitting experimental and theoretical letters in [the subjects of] ‘Physics of Elementary Particles and Fields’ and ‘Nuclear Physics'[,] two research areas focussing on the High-Energy Physics community”. EPL is published under the scientific policy and control of the European Physical […]

Switzerland joins SCOAP3

November 10, 2008

The Swiss Institute of Particle Physics (CHIPP), which groups 9 universities and federal institutes of technology in Switzerland active in the field of High Energy Physics, has joined SCOAP3 on behalf of Switzerland. The CHIPP Executive Board declared that: “CHIPP welcomes the SCOAP3 initiative, which paves the way towards open access publishing, keeping the essential […]

Join us for an information meeting on SCOAP3 in New Delhi on 25 November 2008, just before the International Conference of Asian Special Libraries (ICoASL 2008). SCOAP3 has so far collected commitments for over a half of its projected budget envelope, from a dozen countries in Europe, North America and the Middle East. In order […]