Thanks to the hard work and steadfast commitment of
hundreds of libraries and individuals across the globe, SCOAP3, the
Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics,
will soon become a reality. This ground-breaking
initiative will make a large proportion of the formal literature in
high energy physics openly accessible worldwide, through direct
financial support of the peer review and publication process by
libraries and funding agencies who have agreed to become SCOAP3
Partners. The initiative has its organizational home at CERN, the
European Center for Nuclear Research located in Geneva, Switzerland.
Publishers participating in SCOAP3 whose HEP journals will be made open
access include Elsevier, Hindawi, Institute of
Physics, OUP, and Springer, among others. A press release announcing
the launch can be found on the SCOAP3 website at
http://scoap3.org/news/news102.html.
The UC Libraries have long supported this
initiative and have recently confirmed participation in a formal
memorandum of understanding (MOU) between CDL and CERN designating the
University of California as a SCOAP3 Partner. UC was the
first institution in the U.S. to indicate its support for SCOAP3
through an Expression of Interest in 2008, and has continued to be an
active champion as funding commitments were cultivated elsewhere in the
US and around the world.
SCOAP3 relies on a unique funding model which
utilizes the redirection of library licensing fees to fund article
processing charges in participating journals, without requiring payments
from individual authors. License fee reductions are
in the process of being finalized with the relevant publishers so that
these fees can be redirected to SCOAP3. Participation fees are fixed
for the initial three-year term of the project.
CDL’s Director of Collections Ivy Anderson has been
involved with SCOAP3 throughout its formative stages as a member of the
Steering Committee and chair of the Technical Working Group. Anderson
has recently been elected to the newly-formed
Executive Committee of SCOAP3, which will oversee the operation and
further development of the initiative, including the SCOAP3 repository
being established at CERN.
n addition to serving as an archival and access
repository for the articles funded by SCOAP3, participating institutions
will be able to obtain a feed of SCOAP3 papers authored at their
institutions for ingestion into institutional repositories.
A list of U.S. members to date can be found on the SCOAP-USA website at
http://www.lyrasis.org/scoap3usa.
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