Abstract
The High Energy Physics community over the last 15 years has achieved so-called full green Open Access through the wide dissemination of preprints via arXiv, a central subject repository managed by Cornell University. However, green Open Access does not alleviate the economic difficulties of libraries as they are still expected to offer access to versions of record of the peer-reviewed literature. For this reason the particle physics community is now addressing the issue of gold Open Access by converting a set of the existing core journals to Open Access. A Working Party has been established to bring together funding agencies, laboratories and libraries into a single consortium, called SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics). This consortium will engage with publishers to build a sustainable model for Open Access publishing. In this model, subscription fees from multiple institutions are replaced by contracts with publishers of Open Access journals, where the SCOAP3 consortium is a single financial partner.
Highlights
The goal of Open Access (OA) is to grant anyone, anywhere and anytime, free access to the results of scientific research
The increasing awareness that results of publicly-funded research should be made generally available. This need is amplified by the transformation of research activities towards ‘e-Science’, carried out by a global scientific community linked by strong networks In December 2005 a tripartite Task Force, comprising funding agencies, publishers and research organizations, was set up to study the possibilities for OA publishing in High Energy Physics (HEP)
It is interesting to observe that in recent years, all physics publishers have introduced Open Access options of one kind or another, clearly all moves that can be directly linked to the ongoing vivid debate in the community itself
Summary
The goal of Open Access (OA) is to grant anyone, anywhere and anytime, free access to the results of scientific research. THE SCOAP3 MODEL The proposed initiative aims to convert high-quality HEP journals to OA, pursuing two goals: to provide open and unrestricted access to all HEP research literature in its final, peer-reviewed form; to contain the overall cost of journal publishing by increasing competition whilst assuring sustainability. In this new model, the publishers’ subscription income from multiple institutions is replaced by income from a single financial partner, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3). To cover publications by scientists from countries that cannot reasonably be expected to contribute to the consortium at this time, an allowance of not more than 10% of the SCOAP3 budget is foreseen
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