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January 10, 2008

SCOAP3 Model Proposed for Funding Particle Physics Journals

The SCOAP3 project is an innovative new model for funding high energy physics journals. SCOAP3, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics, has proposed a mechanism for particle physics to pay for its own publishing costs and make articles in the field openly available to the world without cost to the reader. Rather than rely on typical journal subscriptions, in the SCOAP3 model, universities, labs, and funding agencies involved in producing particle physics literature pay into a consortium (SCOAP3). The consortium then pays publishers to publish their journals openly on the web.

From the MIT LIbrary News blog, 1/9/2008.

More information is available at:
http://www.scoap3.org/
http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/model-funding-energy/882/

Posted by ebrown at January 10, 2008 11:17 AM