CERN has launched SCOAP3

European Physical Society

CERN has launched SCOAP3

By Martina Knoop. Published on 26 October 2012 in:
Information, News, October 2012, CERN, Horizon 2020, Open Access, SCOAP3

The Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics [SCOAP3] was officially at CERN on 1 October 2012.

This new publishing model, which grants free access to peer-reviewed articles in particle physics, redirects the funding traditionally spent by libraries for subscriptions to an internationally coordinated common fund.

Twelve publishers have been retained in the first call for tender.

Currently, 29 countries are involved in SCOAP3, and an extension to an even wider range of members is envisaged. The first articles published under SCOAP3 are scheduled for 2014. CERN has been at the origin of and a motor for this project.

The implementation of Open Access in scientific publishing is ongoing (see also the news on “Open Access in UK and Horizon2020″).

A few years ago the EPS has already expressed its views and concerns on this very delicate matter (read the EPS position paper on Open Access).

For more information, please visit the SCOAP3 website.

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