Open Access in High-Energy Physics: a Practical Approach
| Main Author: | Mele, Salvatore |
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| Format: | Proceeding NonPeerReviewed application/pdf |
| Bahasa: | it |
| Terbitan: |
, 2007
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.rclis.org/10903/1/mele.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/10903/ |
Daftar Isi:
- High Energy Physics (HEP) spearheaded the Open Access dissemination of scientific results with the mass mailing of preprints in the pre-WWW era and with the launch of the arXiv.org repository at the dawn of the '90s. The community is now ready for a further push to Open Access while retaining all the advantages of its peer-review system. CERN, the world leading HEP laboratory which gave to the world the WWW, has now taken the lead in furthering Open Access publishing, leveraging on its experience and assets in world-wide collaboration. In recent months, HEP funding agencies, laboratories and library consortia joined forces to establish a single body, called SCOAP3: the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics. SCOAP3 will engage scientific publishers towards building a sustainable model for Open Access publishing, transparent for HEP authors. In the SCOAP3 model, subscription fees from multiple institutions are replaced with contracts with publishers of Open Access journals where SCOAP3 is a single financial partner. The publishers' role of assuring the high quality of published scientific literature through the peer-review system is at the basis of this model. Publishers would receive financial compensation for the costs incurred in the organisation of the peer-review service, while assuring Open Access to the accepted articles. We discuss the HEP publishing landscape and its links to the Open Access tenets leading to the basis of the SCOAP3 model. An outline for the transition of the entire HEP corpus to Open Access is then presented and the recent steps towards the establishment of SCOAP3 are reviewed.