SCOAP3 open-access initiative gets going - CERN Courier

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-01-24

Summary:

"After intense preparations and consensus building, the SCOAP3 open-access publishing initiative started on 1 January. With the support of partners in 24 countries, a large proportion of scientific articles in the field of high-energy physics will become open access at no cost for any author: everyone will be able to read them; authors will retain copyright; and generous licences will enable wide re-use of this information. Convened at CERN, this is the largest-scale global open-access initiative ever built, involving an international collaboration of more than 1000 libraries, library consortia and research organizations. SCOAP3 enjoys the support of funding agencies and has been established in co-operation with leading publishers. Eleven publishers of high-quality international journals are participating in SCOAP3. Elsevier, IOP Publishing and Springer, with their publishing partners, have been working with the network of SCOAP3 national contact points. Reductions in subscription fees for thousands of participating libraries worldwide have been arranged, making funds available for libraries to support SCOAP3. The objective of SCOAP3 is to grant unrestricted access to articles appearing in scientific journals, which so far have been available to scientists only through certain university libraries, and generally unavailable to the wider public. Open dissemination of preliminary information, in the form of pre-peer-review articles known as preprints, has been the norm in high-energy physics and related disciplines for two decades. SCOAP3 sustainably extends this opportunity to high-quality peer-review service, making the final version of articles available within the open-access tenets of free and unrestricted dissemination of science with intellectual property rights vested in the authors and wide re-use opportunities. In the SCOAP3 model, libraries and funding agencies pool resources that are currently used to subscribe to journals, in co-operation with publishers, and use them to support the peer-review system directly instead ..."

Link:

http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/55875

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Tags:

oa.new oa.scoap3 oa.publishers oa.funders oa.libraries oa.physics oa.gold oa.business_models oa.consortia oa.journals oa.announcements

Date tagged:

01/24/2014, 19:11

Date published:

01/24/2014, 14:12