In the last weeks, four U.S. libraries have expressed their support to the SCOAP3 initiative: The Bridge (Carleton College, St Olaf College), the State University of New York at Stonybrook, Tufts University and the University of West Virginia So far, over 150 U.S. libraries and library consortia have pledged a total of over 3.2 Million […]
The Národni technická knihovna (NTK), the Czech National Technical Library has joined SCOAP3 on behalf of the Czech Republic. With the Czech Republic, the SCOAP3 consortium has now established partnerships in as many as 24 countries in America, Australasia, Europe and the Middle East. So far, these partners have collectively pledged around 7 millions Euros […]
Earlier this week the Large Hadron Collider at CERN started high-energy operation, heralding a new era of scientific research, which will yield a rich harvest of scientific results. Meanwhile, results from a earlier, lower-energy test of the accelerator in December 2009 have been already been published: by the ATLAS collaboration in Elsevier’s Physics Letters B, […]