Open Access Publishing in High-Energy Physics

Mele, Salvatore Open Access Publishing in High-Energy Physics., 2007 . In ELPUB 2007 International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Vienna (Austria), June 13-15 2007. [Conference paper]

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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.

Item type:	Conference paper
Keywords:	Open Access Publishing; High-Energy Physics; CERN; SCOAP3
Subjects:	E. Publishing and legal issues. > EZ. None of these, but in this section.
Depositing user:	Salvatore Mele
Date deposited:	19 Jun 2007
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:08
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/9906

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