Peter Suber, Eleventh hour for SCOAP3

From the December 2010 SOAN. "The SCOAP3 project is in its eleventh hour. Since 2007, SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) has been pulling together research institutions, journal publishers, and subscribing libraries to negotiate a transition to libre OA for peer-reviewed journals in particle physics....Today the consortium has pledges for about 71% of its budget, and it's running out of new institutions to ask. It's also running out of time. It must have pledges for a larger percentage of its budget in order to negotiate details with publishers before the 2011 subscription season starts...."