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.
Read now:
-The Executive
Summary of the Report of the SCOAP3
Working Party
-The complete report
25/04/2008, Five more U.S. institutions join SCOAP3
Five more U.S. institutions have expressed their interest in redirecting their subscriptions to High-Energy Physics journals to SCOAP3:
- Emory University
- Lewis and Clark College
- University of Hawai'i
- University of Kansas
- University of Wisconsin at Madison
With these accessions SCOAP3 now counts 24 partners in the United States in addition to partners representing 12 European Countries and an international laboratory.
23/04/2008, Belgium joins SCOAP3
The Institut Interuniversitaire des Sciences Nucléaires
of the Belgian National Foundation for Scientific Research,
Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique - FNRS has joined SCOAP3 on behalf of Belgium.
The SCOAP3 membership now consists of 12 European countries and a growing number of U.S. library and library consortia which have collectively pledged about 3 Million Euros, or 5 Million U.S. dollars, towards the operation of the consortium.
