Nicolae Victor Zamfir, director general of the Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering signs the Expression of Interest to join the SCOAP3 consortium, on behalf of Romania. He finds “SCOAP3 a very good initiative to disseminate high-quality results in particle physics […] supporting Open Access”. Romania joins a rapidly-increasing list of members […]
The SCOAP3 initiative is rapidly gaining momentum: in a few months, many European countries have expressed their interest in joining the consortium and many more are expected to follow suit in the coming months, with more and more awareness rising in the rest of the world and with widespread support from the scientific community. However, […]
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 […]
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:
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 […]
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.
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
The Danish Library Agency signs the Expression of Interest to join SCOAP3, pledging the Danish contribution to the consortium. The Danish Library Agency represents the Denmark Electronic Research Library (DEFF).DEFF is an organisational and technological partnership betweenresearch libraries co-financed by the Ministry of Science, Technologyand Innovation, the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education.
SCOAP3is rapidly gaining momentum: within a few months, many European countries have expressed their interest in joining the consortium and many moreare expected to follow suit in the coming months, with more and moreawareness rising in the rest of the world. Over a third of the requiredbudget envelope has already been pledged or will be […]
CERN Council today appointed Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer as next CERN Director General.Professor Heuer will serve a five-year term, taking office on 1 January2009. His mandate will cover the early years of operation and firstscientific results from the Laboratory’s new flagship researchfacility, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scheduled to begin operationin summer 2008. The present CERN […]