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The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) are organising an information session on SCOAP3 at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Denver. The SCOAP3 initiative has so far collected about 1/2 of its projected budget envelope in the United States, […]

The Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) aims to redirect the subscriptions funds used for the core journals in the field of High-Energy Physics (HEP) to make them Open Access. This initiative is much more than a one-discipline-only solution to the nested issues of Open Access and subscriptions, it aims to […]

The Israeli Science Foundation and the Israeli Committee for High Energy Physics have joined SCOAP3 on behalf of Israel. Israel becomes the 19th country to join the SCOAP3 consortium, which counts countries in Europe, Australasia and the Middle East, as well as a large number of leading U.S. libraries and CERN, an international research organisation […]

Europhysics Letters announced that it will “offer open access free of charge to all authors submitting experimental and theoretical letters in [the subjects of] ‘Physics of Elementary Particles and Fields’ and ‘Nuclear Physics'[,] two research areas focussing on the High-Energy Physics community”. EPL is published under the scientific policy and control of the European Physical […]

The Swiss Institute of Particle Physics (CHIPP), which groups 9 universities and federal institutes of technology in Switzerland active in the field of High Energy Physics, has joined SCOAP3 on behalf of Switzerland. The CHIPP Executive Board declared that: “CHIPP welcomes the SCOAP3 initiative, which paves the way towards open access publishing, keeping the essential […]

Join us for an information meeting on SCOAP3 in New Delhi on 25 November 2008, just before the International Conference of Asian Special Libraries (ICoASL 2008). SCOAP3 has so far collected commitments for over a half of its projected budget envelope, from a dozen countries in Europe, North America and the Middle East. In order […]

In November 2007, Springer declared its strong support for Open Access. In october 2008, a new statement reinforces this support: “In anticipation of successful negotiations with interested Open Access funding agencies in the future, the “open access” publishing fees for all experimental papers [both regular articles and scientific notes] submitted to and accepted for publication […]

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 […]