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SCOAP3 Working Party Towards open access publishing in high energy physics. Geneva: CERN, 2007. (www.scoap3.org/files/Scoap3WPReport.pdf)
High energy physics pioneered open access through repositories containing collections of pre-prints freely accessible on the internet, but there still is a strong consensus in the scientific community about the need for high-quality journals that provide quality control through the peer review process; a platform for the evaluation of scientists; and a measure of the quality and productivity of research groups and institutes. Yet open access journals are expensive. A model for financing open access journals which proposes that 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), a global network of funding agencies, research laboratories, and libraries. Each SCOAP3 partner will recover its contribution from the cancellation of its current journal subscriptions. This model avoids charging authors for the open access publication of their articles.
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