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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 standard, so that the universities and institutes face difficulty to secure the budget for subscriptions. KEK […]

On 4th January 2008, 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 […]

On 15th August 2007, ICFA, the International Committee for Future Accelerators, a major forum for future directions in High Energy Physics, encouraged all concerned parties from all world regions to actively get involved in the SCOAP3 initiative to assure its success. ICFA also invited its members to facilitate the implementation of SCOAP3 by raising awareness […]

The Strategic Helmholtz Alliance ‘Physics at the Terascale’ considers unrestricted access to published scientific results essential for wide dissemination and efficient usage of scientific knowledge. “The particle physics community has always been at the forefront of the open access movement. Today, the overwhelming majority of scientific results in high energy physics are freely available as […]

The Portuguese Minister of Science, Professor Mariano Gago, during the closing address at the Berlin 5 Open Access conference held in Padua, strongly supports the SCOAP3 initiative. Watch the video

The INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy) expresses its interest to join the SCOAP3 consortium.

Robert Aymar, CERN Director General, signs the Expression of Interest to join the SCOAP3 consortium.

On behalf of the Assembly of Greek universities, the University of Patras signs the Expression of Interest to join the SCOAP3 consortium.

The director of CNRS/IN2P3 signs the Expression of Interest to join the SCOAP3 consortium.

ICFA, the International Committeefor Future Accelerators, a major forum for future directions inHigh-Energy Physics, encourages concerned parties from all worldregions to actively get involved in the SCOAP3 initiative to ensure itssuccess. ICFA also invites its members to facilitate the implementationof SCOAP3 by raising awareness on open-access publishing in theircommunities. Read their statement.