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At a recent meeting of the SCOAP3 partnership, a consensus decision was reached to move this initiative forward toward its implementation phase. A crucial step of this process will be an invitation to the potential SCOAP3 publishing partners to tender for the peer-review, Open Access and other editorial services for the field of High-Energy Physics. […]

On April 6th 2011 representatives from institutions in the global SCOAP3 partnership convened to assess the progress of this Open Access initiative. Large publishers in the field, APS, Elsevier, IOPp, SISSA and Springer, shared their opinions on the SCOAP3 model and their intention to participate in a SCOAP3 tender aiming to convert to Open Access […]

Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, has addressed a meeting of the stakeholders of the global SCOAP3 initiative held at CERN on April 6th, 2011. In her address she wished SCOAP3 a “…success [that] will be more than just a proof of concept. It will show us […]

The Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) has joined the SCOAP3 consortium on behalf of Korea, the first Asian partner in this international Open Access initiative. With Korea, SCOAP3 has established partnerships in 27 countries in Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania. These partners have collectively pledged 73% of the SCOAP3 budget envelope […]

The Moroccan Centre National Pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (National Center for Scientific and Technological Research) has joined SCOAP3 on behalf of Morocco, the first African country to do so. With Morocco, the SCOAP3 consortium has now established partnerships in as many as 25 countries in Africa, Europe, North America, Australasia and the Middle […]

The Libraries of the major Chinese research institutions active in High-Energy Physics have written an open letter in support of the SCOAP33 initiative, while working on its implementation in China. This is a crucial step in the extension of the SCOAP3 partnership in Asia. Today, SCOAP3 counts partners in 24 countries across the world, which […]

JINR becomes the first organisation in Russia to pledge financial support to the SCOAP3 project to convert to Open Access the literature in High Energy Physics. This partnership is very important for the success of this novel Open Access initiative, which now has gathered support in 24 countries across the world. Literally hundreds of partners, […]

KEK, the Japanese High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, has issued a statement of support for SCOAP3: KEK strongly supports the spirit of the SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing) project for its comprehensive approach to Open Access, taking into considerations that the price of journals has been rising and stays at the very expensive […]

Today CERN/SCOAP3 was presented the fifth SPARC Europe Award for Outstanding Achievements in Scholarly Communications Rolf Heuer, CERN Director General, said: “I am honoured by this prize which recognises our vision of Scholarly Communication. It is inspired by the same principles that our community has developed to tackle global scientific challenges: collaboration; consensus; innovation; openness; […]

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 […]