The Johns Hopkins University has indicated its interest in participating in SCOAP3 and becomes the first institute on the U.S. East Coast to do so, stretching the SCOAP3 U.S. membership from the Atlantic to the Midwest, from the Mountains to the Pacific. In 10 days, 16 U.S. institutes have signed an Expression of Interest in […]
On February 29, 2008 the University of California at Berkeley hosted the US SCOAP3 focal meeting, aimed at fostering broad consensus and involvement from the leading US libraries and library consortia to make SCOAP3 happen. Consult the slides presented at the meeting and the list of participants and the Participating institutions. What is Open Access, […]
Four U.S. National Laboratories joined SCOAP3 today. The libraries ofArgonne National Laboratory,Fermilab, Los Alamos National Laboratory andPacific Northwest National Laboratorysigned an Expression of Interest to re-direct their current subscriptions to High-Energy Physics journals to the SCOAP3 consortium. To date, fifteen libraries across the U.S. are part of SCOAP3 and more are expected to join in […]
IEEE announced today its interest in participating in the SCOAP3 initiative, mentioning that “SCOAP3 endorses principles such as thevalue of peer review to validate scientific research, and the need for self-sustainingbusiness models. The IEEE is keenly interested in exploringapproaches that benefit the creators and consumers of technical literature.” IEEE publishes a “broadband” journal, IEEE Transactions […]
The California Institute of Technology has signed an expression of interest to join SCOAP3.Caltech stated “that the High Energy Physics scientists are, indeed, taking a fresh look at the publishing cycle. Through SCOAP3, they have devised a model to put the scientific HEP community in greater control of its work. This is a refreshing and […]
The California Digital Library has joined SCOAP3 on behalf of the ten Campuses of UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Los Angeles, UC Merced, UC Riverside, UC San Diego, UC San Francisco, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz. These institutes become the first to join SCOAP3 in the United States. The University of California […]
Eastern Europe counts more and more countries in SCOAP3. On 18th of February, Prof. Zalán Horváth, Chairman of Section of Physical Sciences in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences signed the Expression of Interest to join SCOAP3, on behalf on Hungary. Hungary becomes the 12th country to join the consortium and brings the total funds pledged […]
The Slovak Republic signs the Expression of Interest to join the SCOAP3 consortium. The Slovak-CERN Committee will be responsible for the Slovak contribution to SCOAP3. With the accession of the Slovak Republic, the SCOAP3 consortium now counts 11 countries all over Europe; we expect other countries to join very soon.
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, […]