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Three more U.S. partners have recently joined the SCOAP3 initiative: Purdue University, Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN) and the Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA). SCOAP3 now counts 47 partners in the U.S., comprising individual libraries, research laboratories and library consortia. These have pledged to re-direct their expenditures for subscriptions to High-Energy Physics journals to the […]

Just before the successful circulation of the first beams in the LHC accelerator at CERN seminal articles describing the construction of the LHC and its detectors were published Open Access in the Journal of Instrumentation. This is in line with the commitment of HEP scientists to Open Access. Elsevier has meanwhile announced that it will […]

The Turkish Atomic Energy Authority (TAEK) has joined SCOAP3 on behalf of Turkey, recognising that “the SCOAP3 initiative is important for the High-Energy Physics community worldwide”. The SCOAP3 membership now consists of 16 countries in Europe, Australasia and the Middle East and a fast-growing number of U.S. libraries and library consortia. In one year of […]

The NorthEast Research Libraries consortium, NERL, has joined SCOAP3. With NERL, SCOAP3 now counts partners in 16 countries and an international organization, which have collectively pledged 4.5 million Euros (7.2 million U.S. dollars) corresponding to 45% of the global SCOAP3 budget envelope. Since SCOAP3 was first promoted in the U.S at the end of February, […]

GWLA, the Great Western Library Alliance, has joined SCOAP3 on behalf of 18 of its members, with more expected to join in the near future. The Deans and Directors of GWLA had already endorsed SCOAP3 project. Dr. Joni Blake, Executive Director of the GWLA, said “The member libraries of the Alliance are keenly interested in […]

Five more U.S. partners have joined SCOAP3: three laboratories, the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, SLAC, the Thomas Jefferson Laboratory, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory – University of California, Berkeley and two universities, the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and the Northwestern University SCOAP3 now counts 29 institutions in the U.S., which have pledged to […]

The Association of College and Research Libraries, ACRL, has issued a letter of support for the SCOAP3 initiative, where it “welcomes this experiment in new funding models and recognizes its potential to inform scholarly publishing more globally” and states that it “believes that SCOAP3 is a valuable addition to the heterogeneous mix of strategies being […]

UKB, the Dutch consortium of the thirteen university libraries and the National Library of the Netherlands, and NIKHEF, the National Institute for Subatomic Physics in the Netherlands, have joined SCOAP3. M.A.M. Heijne, the president of UKB, commented: “I sincerely hope that this project will be an opportunity to show the world that the challenges in […]

JISC has joined SCOAP3 on behalf of UK Higher Education Institutions who have pledged to re-direct their current expenditures on High-Energy Physics journals to this Open Access initiative. Dr. Malcolm Read, JISC Executive Secretary, commented: “JISC strongly supports moves towards making scholarly resources openly available, in a sustainable manner that brings value for money to […]

Australia has joined SCOAP3, through a partnership of six Universities: Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Western Australia, New South Wales and the Australian National University The University of Melbourne declared: “Australian universities have a long historyof collaboration to provide the advanced scholarly informationinfrastructure required to support research and innovation. Now, morethan perhaps ever before, collaboration across national […]