| id |
127_elpub2007 |
| authors |
Mele, Salvatore |
| year |
2007 |
| title |
Open Access Publishing in High-Energy Physics |
| source |
ELPUB2007. Openness in Digital Publishing: Awareness, Discovery and Access - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Electronic Publishing held in Vienna, Austria 13-15 June 2007 / Edited by: Leslie Chan and Bob Martens. ISBN 978-3-85437-292-9, 2007, pp. 15-24 |
| summary |
The goal of Open Access (OA) is to grant anyone, anywhere and anytime free access to the results of scientific research. The High-Energy Physics (HEP) community has pioneered OA with its “pre-print culture”: the mass mailing, first, and the online posting, later, of preliminary versions of its articles. After almost half a century of widespread dissemination of pre-prints, the time is ripe for the HEP community to explore OA publishing. Among other possible models, a sponsoring consortium appears as the most viable option for a transition of HEP peer-reviewed literature to OA. A Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) is proposed as a central body which would remunerate publishers for the peer-review service, effectively replacing the “reader-pays” model of traditional subscriptions with an “author-side” funding. Funding to SCOAP3 would come from HEP funding agencies and library consortia through a re-direction of subscriptions. This model is discussed in details together with a quantitative description of the HEP publishing landscape leading to a practical proposal for a seamless transition of HEP peer-reviewed literature to OA publishing. |
| keywords |
open access publishing; high-energy physics; CERN; SCOAP |
| series |
ELPUB:2007 |
| type |
normal paper |
| email |
Salvatore.Mele@cern.ch |
| more |
http://info.tuwien.ac.at/elpub2007/presentations/127.pdf |
| content |
 file.pdf (398,315 bytes) |
| discussion |
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| urn:nbn |
urn:nbn:se:elpub-127_elpub2007 |
| last changed |
2007/06/15 07:11 |
