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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 […]

The Council of the European Union adopts Conclusions on scientific informationin which it “recognises the strategic importance for Europe’sscientific development of current initiatives to develop sustainablemodels for open access […]” and “underlines the importance ofeffective collaboration between different actors, including fundingagencies, researchers, research institutions and scientific publishers,in relation to access [… to], scientific publications”. Theseprinciples […]

The Swedish National Library, on behalf of the BIBSAMconsortium for Swedish research libraries, signs the Expression ofInterest in joining the SCOAP3 consortium.

Springer makes a further step towards Open Access: The European Physical Journal C, which is among the potential initial partners of SCOAP3, is willing to negotiate with funding agencies interested in Open Access to become fully Open Access. In anticipation of such successful negotiations, all experimental papers accepted by The European Physical Journal C will […]

The rectors and council chairmen of Greek Universities confirm the participation of the Greek academic community in SCOAP3. The financial support will be covered by the Greek Library Association’s budget, completed by the participating universities.