[hep-th] FW: Extension of SCOAP3 (fwd)

[Maja Buric]

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Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 09:01:37 +0000
From: Peter Adzic <Peter.Adzic at cern.ch>
To: "majab at ipb.ac.rs" <majab at ipb.ac.rs>
Cc: "rvoja at ff.bg.ac.rs" <rvoja at ff.bg.ac.rs>
Subject: FW: Extension of SCOAP3


Draga Majo i Vojo

 

Molim Vas da distribuirate ovu informaciju kolegama.

P.

 

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From: Council Secretariat
Sent: 18 July 2016 09:33
To: spc-delegates (Delegates to the Scientific Policy Committee); FC-Delegates (Delegates to
Finance Committee); council-delegates-all (delegates Member States and Associate States)
Subject: Extension of SCOAP3

Dear Delegates, dear Colleagues,

 

I am pleased to inform you that CERN has recently concluded the contracts with publishers to
extend the SCOAP3 consortium, our Open Access initiative, for three more years, from January
2017 until December 2019. In the spirit of the CERN Convention, and in support of the emerging
European Open Science policies, SCOAP3 ensures cost-free access to scientific publications in
the field of High-Energy Physics.

 

Initiated and hosted by CERN, SCOAP3 – the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in
Particle Physics – is a collaboration between 3,000 libraries, research organisations and
funding agencies in 47 countries, and intergovernmental organisations. This large-scale
operation started in January 2014 and since then has supported the Open Access publication of
more than 11,500 articles in experimental and theoretical high-energy physics by 20,000 authors
from 97 countries. Following this success, and approval of the contracts extension by CERN
Finance Committee in September 2015, representatives of the SCOAP3 partners, ten academic
publishers and CERN recently agreed the terms for the continuation of this initiative.

 

All articles covered by SCOAP3 are published in the participating journals with Open Access in
perpetuity at no direct cost to any authors. Publication costs are covered centrally by the
consortium based on the collective contributions from all partners. Thanks to SCOAP3 and its
partners in the publishing industry, many high-quality HEP journals have moved to Open Access.
By confirming a second 3-year cycle, SCOAP3 is demonstrating that Open Access is a sustainable
model for the future of scientific publishing.

 

A presentation of SCOAP3, covering the achievements of the first phase (2014-2016) and plans for
the second phase (2017-2019), is planned for the September 2016 Council session.

 

Kind regards,

 

Fabiola Gianotti