SCOAP³ Books

The SCOAP³ for Books initiative is a pilot that the SCOAP³ Governing Council (GC) has established at its May 2019 meeting to leverage the strong network of the Collaboration and the relationships with scholarly publishing to transition key textbooks and monographs in particle physics and neighboring fields to open access.

The project was designed and is run by a working group comprised of volunteers from among the SCOAP³ partner institutions. A pilot phase ran from May 2021 to Nov 2022 and converted 113 books (monographs and textbooks) to Open Access. The success of this pilot was demonstrated by a preliminary usage analysis indicating an increase of book downloads by a factor of 13, while the geographical usage also increased dramatically.

Building on this, the SCOAP³ Governing Council agreed to establish a recurring books programme starting in 2023 and prioritise frontlist titles selected through a rigorous selection process including an international experts panel. The programme is supporting some 15 to 20 new books to be published Open Access every year.

List of Books

Below you will find the list of books transitioned to Open Access with a link to the PDF hosted in the SCOAP³ Repository. The books will be also available via the INIS Repository, OAPEN, and on the respective publisher websites. Please note that this list will be continuously expanded as books become available OA

Title	Author(s)	Publisher
Accelerator Physics	Lee, SY.	World Scientific
Challenges and Goals for Accelerators in the XXI century	Myers, S., Bruning, eds	World Scientific
Lattice Gauge Theories: an Introduction	Rothe, H. J.	World Scientific
Quantum Theory of Angular Momentum	Varchalovich D.A., Moskalev, A. N., V.K. Khersonskii	World Scientific
Gauge Theories in Particle Physics A Practical Introduction, 2 volumes set, Fourth Edition	Aitchison I.J.R, Hey, A.J.G	Taylor & Francis
Heavy Flavour Physics Theory and Experimental Results in Heavy Quark Physics and CP Violation	Davies C., Playfer S.M., Osborne P.	Taylor & Francis
Lie Algebras In Particle Physics from Isospin To Unified Theories	Georgi H.	Taylor & Francis
The Standard Model and Beyond	Langacker P.	Taylor & Francis
A Course in Field Theory	Van Baal P.	Taylor & Francis
An Introduction to Beam Physics	Berz M., Makino K., Wan W.	Taylor & Francis
An Introduction to Particle Physics and the Standard Model	Mann, R.	Taylor & Francis
An Introduction to the Passage of Energetic Particles through Matter	Carron, N. J.	Taylor & Francis
Cosmology in Gauge Field Theory and String Theory	Bailin, D., and Love, A.	Taylor & Francis
Gauge Fields and Strings	Polyakov, A.M.	Taylor & Francis
Group Theory for the Standard Model of Particle Physics and Beyong	Barnes, J.K	Taylor & Francis
Introduction to Gauge Field Theory	Bailin, D., Love, A.	Taylor & Francis
Supersymmetric Gauge Field Theory and String Theory	Bailin, D., Love, A.	Taylor & Francis
The World in Eleven Dimensions: Supergravity, Supermembranes and M-theory	Duff, M. J.	Taylor & Francis
Ideas and Methods of Supersymmetry and Supergravity or A Walk Through Superspace	Kruzenko, S.M.	Taylor & Francis
Perspectives on LHC Physics	Kane, G., and Pierce, A.	World Scientific
Colliders and Neutrinos - The Window into Physics beyond the Standard Model (TASI 2006)	Dawson, S., and Mohapatra, N.R.	World Scientific
Perspectives on String Phenomenology	Acharya, B., Kane, L.G., and Kumar, P.	World Scientific
A Modern Introduction to Particle Physics 3rd Edition	Fayyazuddin and Riazuddin	World Scientific
Beam-based Correction and Optimization for Accelerators	Huang, H.	Taylor & Francis
Effective Theories in Physics	Wells, J.D.	Springer Nature
Electroweak Physics at LEP and LHC	Straessner, A.	Springer Nature
Experimental Techniques in Nuclear and Particle Physics	Tavernier, S.	Springer Nature
Neutrino Physics	Zuber, K.	Taylor & Francis
The Science and Technology of Particle Accelerators	Appleby, R., Burt, G., Clarke, J., Owen, H.	Taylor & Francis
Theoretical Foundations of Synchrotron and Storage Ring RF Systems	Klingbeil, H., Laier, U., Lens, D.	Springer Nature
Unifying Physics of Accelerators, Lasers and Plasma	Seryi, A.	Taylor & Francis
Gauge Theories in Particle Physics: A Practical Introduction, Volume 1 From Relativistic Quantum Mechanics to QED, Fourth Edition	Aitchison I.J.R, Hey, A.J.G	Taylor & Francis
Gauge Theories in Particle Physics: A Practical Introduction, Volume 2: Non-Abelian Gauge Theories QCD and The Electroweak Theory, Fourth Edition	Aitchison I.J.R, Hey, A.J.G	Taylor & Francis
Advanced Concepts in Particle and Field Theory	Hübsch, T.	Cambridge University Press
Bell Nonlocality	Scarani, V.	Oxford University Press
Classical Covariant Fields	Burgess, M.	Cambridge University Press
Conformal Methods in General Relativity	Kroon, J.A.V.	Cambridge University Press
Dynamics of the Standard Model	Donoghue, J.F., Golowich, E., Holstein, B.R.	Cambridge University Press
Electron Scattering for Nuclear and Nucleon Structure	Walecka, J.D.	Cambridge University Press
Elementary Scattering Theory	Sivia, D.S.	Oxford University Press
Gaseous Radiation Detectors	Sauli, F.	Cambridge University Press
Hadrons and Quark–Gluon Plasma	Letessier, J., Rafelski, J.	Cambridge University Press
Introduction to Experimental Particle Physics	Fernow, R.C.	Cambridge University Press
Kinks and Domain Walls	Vachaspati, T.	Cambridge University Press
Loops, Knots, Gauge Theories	Gambini, R., Pullin, J.	Cambridge University Press
Mathematics of Quantization and Quantum Fields	Dereziński, J., Gérard, C.	Cambridge University Press
Neutron Interferometry	Rauch, H., Werner, S.A.	Oxford University Press
Nonequilibrium Quantum Field Theory	Calzetta, E.A., Hu, B.B.	Cambridge University Press
Particle Physics in the LHC era	Barr, G., Devenish, R., Walczak, R., Weidberg, T.	Oxford University Press
Principles of Magnetostatics	Fernow, R.C.	Cambridge University Press
QCD as a Theory of Hadrons	Narison, S.	Cambridge University Press
Quantum Chromodynamics and the Pomeron	Forshaw, J.R., Ross, D.A.	Cambridge University Press
Quantum Chromodynamics at High Energy	Kovchegov, Y.V., Levin, E.	Cambridge University Press
Quarks, Gluons and Lattices	Creutz, M.	Cambridge University Press
Strong Interactions of Hadrons at High Energies	Gribov, V.	Cambridge University Press
Supersymmetry and String Theory	Dine, M.	Cambridge University Press
The Black Book of Quantum Chromodynamics	Campbell, J., Huston, J., Krauss, F.	Oxford University Press
The Theory and Applications of Instanton Calculations	Paranjape, M.	Cambridge University Press
Weak Scale Supersymmetry	Baer, H., Tata, X.	Cambridge University Press
Gauge Theory of Elementary Particle Physics (2000)	Cheng, T., Li, L.	Oxford University Press
The Lund Model	Andersson, Bo	Cambridge University Press
Nuclear Superfluidity	Brink, David M., Broglia, Ricardo A.	Cambridge University Press
Gauge/String Duality, Hot QCD and Heavy Ion Collisions	Casalderrey-Solana, Jorge et al	Cambridge University Press
Foundations of Perturbative QCD	Collins, John	Cambridge University Press
Renormalization	Collins, John	Cambridge University Press
An Introduction to Regge Theory and High Energy Physics	Collins, P.D.B.	Cambridge University Press
The Pinch Technique and its Applications to Non-Abelian Gauge Theories	Cornwall, John M. et al	Cambridge University Press
An Introduction to the Standard Model of Particle Physics	Mann, Robert	Cambridge University Press
Non-Perturbative Field Theory	Frishman, Yitzhak, Sonnenschein, Jacob	Cambridge University Press
Moonshine beyond the Monster	Gannon, Terry	Cambridge University Press
Particle Detectors second edition	Grupen, Claus, Shwartz, Boris	Cambridge University Press
Quantized Detector Networks	Jaroszkiewicz, George	Cambridge University Press
D-Branes	Johnson, Clifford V.	Cambridge University Press
Finite-Temperature Field Theory, Second edition	Kapusta, Joseph I., Gale, Charles	Cambridge University Press
Spin in Particle Physics	Leader, Elliot	Cambridge University Press
Methods of Contemporary Gauge Theory	Makeenko, Yuri	Cambridge University Press
Heavy Quark Physics	Manohar, Aneesh V., Wise, Mark B.	Cambridge University Press
Electroweak Theory	Paschos, E.A.	Cambridge University Press
Supersymmetric Solitons	Shifman, M., Yung, A.	Cambridge University Press
Introduction to Quantum Fields on a Lattice	Smit, Jan	Cambridge University Press
Dynamics of Charged Particles and their Radiation Field	Spohn, Herbert	Cambridge University Press
An Introduction to Particle Accelerators	Wilson, Edmund	Oxford University Press
CP violation	Branco, Gustavo et al	Oxford University Press
Electron-Phonon Interactions in Low-Dimensional Structures	Challis, Lawrence	Oxford University Press
Detectors in Particle Physics	Viehhauser, G, Weidberg, T	Taylor & Francis
Introduction to General Relativity, Black Holes and Cosmology	Choquet-Bruhat, Yvonne	Oxford University Press
Effective Field Theory for Spontaneously Broken Symmetry	Brauner, Tomas	Springer Nature
The Physics of Laser Plasmas and Applications II	Hideaki Takabe	Springer Nature
Gauge Theory of Elementary Particle Physics (1984)	Cheng, T., Li, L.	Oxford University Press
Relativistic Quantum Mechanics	Maiani, L., Benhar O.	Taylor & Francis
Understanding the Physics of Particle Accelerators	Méot, F	Springer Nature
Tensor Network Techniques for Quantum Computation	Collura, M et al.	SISSA Medialab
Non-Perturbative Quantum Field Theory	Percacci, R	SISSA Medialab
Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics	Bettini, A	Cambridge University Press

Supporting SCOAP³ Institutions

The SCOAP³ for Books initiative was made possible thanks to the generous support of the following institutions. Please note that this list will be continuously expanded as institutions confirm their contribution.

Countries and Regions	Institution
Australia	Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Australia	University of New South Wales
Austria	Austrian Transition to Open Access 2 (AT2OA2)
Austria	International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Austria	Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz
Austria	Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Austria	Technische Universität Graz
Austria	Technische Universität Wien
Austria	Universität Graz
Austria	Universität Wien
Austria	Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol
Canada	Brock University
Canada	Cape Breton University
Canada	Concordia University
Canada	Dalhousie University
Canada	European Council for Nuclear Research
Canada	McGill University
Canada	McMaster University
Canada	Memorial University of Newfoundland
Canada	Mount Saint Vincent University
Canada	Saint Mary's University
Canada	Simon Fraser University
Canada	Trent University
Canada	Université de Moncton
Canada	Université de Montréal
Canada	Université Laval
Canada	University of British Columbia
Canada	University of Lethbridge
Canada	University of Manitoba
Canada	University of Ottawa
Canada	University of Saskatchewan
Canada	University of Toronto
Canada	University of Victoria
Canada	University of Windsor
Canada	Western University
CERN	European Council for Nuclear Research
China	Fudan University Library
China	Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
China	Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
China	Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
China	Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
China	Library of University of Science and Technology of China
China	Nanjing Normal University
China	Nanjing University Library
China	National Science and Technology Library
China	National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences
China	Peking University Library
China	Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences
China	Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
China	Shanghai Jiao Tong University Library
China	Sichuan University Library
China	Tsinghua University Library
China	University of Chinese Academy of Science Library
China	Wuhan University Library
China	Zhejiang University Library
Czech Republic	ADVACAM
Czech Republic	Centrum výzkumu Řež, s.r.o.
Czech Republic	České vysoké učení technické v Praze
Czech Republic	Fyzikální ústav AV CR, v.v.i.
Czech Republic	Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích
Czech Republic	Masarykova univerzita Matematický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i.
Czech Republic	Národní technická knihovna
Czech Republic	Ostravská Univerzita
Czech Republic	Slezská univerzita v Opavě
Czech Republic	Technická univerzita Liberec
Czech Republic	Univerzita Hradec Králové
Czech Republic	Univerzita J.E.Purkyně, v Olomouci
Czech Republic	Univerzita Karlova
Czech Republic	Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
Czech Republic	Ústav fyziky plazmatu AV CR, v.v.i.
Czech Republic	Ústav informatiky AV ČR, v.v.i.
Czech Republic	Ústav jaderné fyziky AV CR, v.v.i.
Czech Republic	Vysoká škola báňská-Technická Univerzita Ostrava
Czech Republic	Vysoká škola chemicko-technologická v Praze
Czech Republic	Vysoké učení technické v Brně
Finland	Åbo Akademi University
Finland	Tampere University
Finland	University of Eastern Finland
Finland	University of Helsinki
Finland	University of Jyväskylä
Finland	University of Oulu
Finland	University of Turku
Finland	VTT Technical Research Center of Finland
France	CNRS-Centre national de la recherche scientifique
France	UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg
Germany	DESY - Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron
Germany	Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
Germany	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Germany	Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Germany	GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung
Germany	Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie
Germany	Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Germany	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Germany	Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Germany	Leibniz Universität Hannover
Germany	Max Planck Society
Germany	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Germany	Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitatsbibliothek Dresden
Germany	Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB)
Germany	Technische Universität Dortmund
Germany	Universitat Bielefeld
Germany	Universität Duisburg-Essen
Germany	Universität Hamburg
Germany	Universität Leipzig
Germany	Universität Rostock
Greece	HEAL-Link
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (HKSAR)	City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (HKSAR)	The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (HKSAR)	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (HKSAR)	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (HKSAR)	The University of Hong Kong
Intergovernmental Organisation	CERN
Italy	Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Japan	Chiba University Library
Japan	High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
Japan	Hiroshima University Library
Japan	Hokkaido University Library
Japan	Kyoto University Library
Japan	Kyushu Institute of Technology Library
Japan	Kyushu University Library
Japan	Meiji University Library
Japan	Nara Institute of Science and Technology Library
Japan	Niigata University Library
Japan	Okayama University Library
Japan	Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University Library
Japan	Ritsumeikan University Library
Japan	Shinshu University Library
Japan	Toho University Media Center
Japan	Tohoku University Library
Japan	Tokyo Institute of Technology Library
Japan	University of Tokyo Library System
Netherlands	Dutch Research Council (NWO)
Norway	Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Norway	University of Bergen
Norway	University of Oslo Library
Portugal	FCT Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia - FCCN
Portugal	Universidade de Coimbra
South Korea	KISTI - Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information
Spain	Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
Spain	Instituto de Astrofísica de Canaras
Spain	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Spain	Universidad Carlos III
Spain	Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Spain	Universidad de Alcalá
Spain	Universidad de Alicante
Spain	Universidad de Almería
Spain	Universidad de Cádiz
Spain	Universidad de Cantabria
Spain	Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha
Spain	Universidad de Córdoba
Spain	Universidad de Granada
Spain	Universidad de Huelva
Spain	Universidad de Jaén
Spain	Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Spain	Universidad de León
Spain	Universidad de Málaga
Spain	Universidad de Navarra
Spain	Universidad de Oviedo
Spain	Universidad de Salamanca
Spain	Universidad de Sevilla
Spain	Universidad de Valladolid
Spain	Universidad de Zaragoza
Spain	Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
Spain	Universidad Internacional de Andalucía
Spain	Universidad Miguel Hernández
Spain	Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Spain	Universidad Pablo de Olavide
Spain	Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena
Spain	Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Spain	Universidad Pública de Navarra
Spain	Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Spain	Universidade da Coruña
Spain	Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Spain	Universidade de Vigo
Spain	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Spain	Universitat de Barcelona
Spain	Universitat de Girona
Spain	Universitat de les Illes Balears
Spain	Universitat de Lleida
Spain	Universitat de València
Spain	Universitat Jaume I
Spain	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Spain	Universitat Politècnica de València
Spain	Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Sweden	KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Sweden	Lund University
Sweden	Stockholm University
Sweden	The National Library of Sweden - Kungliga Biblioteket
Switzerland	ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Switzerland	École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne ‐ EPFL
Switzerland	ETH Zurich
Switzerland	University of Bern
Switzerland	University of Geneva
Switzerland	University of Zurich
Turkey	Tubitak
UK	Durham University (IPPP)
UK	University of York
USA	American University
USA	Bloomington
USA	Brown University
USA	California Digital Library
USA	Carnegie Mellon University
USA	Claremont Colleges
USA	Colorado State University - Fort Collins
USA	Emory University
USA	George Washington University
USA	Grand Valley State University
USA	Harvard University
USA	Haverford College
USA	Indiana University
USA	Johns Hopkins University
USA	Kenyon College
USA	Los Alamos National Laboratory
USA	Louisiana State University
USA	Michigan State University
USA	Middle Tennessee State University
USA	MIT Libraries
USA	Montana State University
USA	Muhlenberg College
USA	New York University
USA	Northwestern University
USA	Pennsylvania State University
USA	Princeton University
USA	Purdue University
USA	Rowan University
USA	Swarthmore College
USA	Texas A&M
USA	University at Buffalo, SUNY System
USA	University of Alabama
USA	University of Arizona
USA	University of Colorado Boulder
USA	University of Florida
USA	University of Georgia
USA	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
USA	University of Kansas
USA	University of Massachusetts, Amherst
USA	University of Mississippi
USA	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
USA	University of Pennsylvania
USA	University of Rhode Island
USA	University of Southern California
USA	University of Tennessee
USA	University of Texas System Digital Library
USA	Vanderbilt University
USA	Villanova University
USA	Virginia Commonwealth University
USA	Washington State University
USA	Wayne State University
USA	Westchester University

SCOAP3 Books

List of Books

Supporting SCOAP3 Institutions

SCOAP³ Books

Supporting SCOAP³ Institutions