Journal candidates for conversion to OA

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• SCOAP3 in a nutshell
• Establish Open Access in HEP publishing in a
  transparent way for authors
• Consortium of funding bodies, research labs and
  libraries pays centrally for peer-review
• No individual author is asked to pay for OA
• No paying twice for OA and subscription
• Convert existing high-quality peer-reviewed
  journals to Open Access in a sustainable way
• Publishers receive and process articles as
  before make final version available OA
  receive financial compensation by SCOAP3
• Publishers continue to meet demand for
  additional premium products (paper copies,
  color pages, )
• A single commercial partner for publishers
  stronger bargaining position
• Operate along the blueprint of large
  collaborations
• Agreements with partners and publishers on a
  3-year sliding window
• Price tag of 10M/year to be shared according
  to the distribution of HEP articles per country
• Fair share model 10 provision to waive fees
  for poor countries
• The model has high potential but is only viable
  if every country contributing to HEP is on
  board!
• The SCOAP3 model could be generalized to
  related fields e.g. Nuclear and Astroparticle
  Physics

Open Access the SCOAP3 project

• WHY HEP?
• High Energy Physics is decades ahead in thinking
  Open Access
• mailing of preprints since over half a century
• arXiv.org (then hep-th_at_xxx.lanl.gov) since
  08/91, before the web
• experimented with different kind of journals,
  such as low cost (JHEP/JCAP/JINST) and
  sponsored OA (PR ST-AB)
• Closely knit community with long-established
  tradition of cross-border collaboration
• Relatively small global scientific output
  (9000 articles, depending on HEP definition)
• Small publishing landscape O(10) main journals
• c The conversion of the publication landscape to
  OA of a complete scientific field seems
  feasible

Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing
in Particle Physics
Journal candidates for conversion to OA
SCOAP3 Financing
Distributionof Articles

• Conversion of subscription budget into
  sponsoring and publication charge funds
• Funding agencies (DFG national license)

6 journals with gt80 HEP fractioncovering gt50
of all HEP literature 4 publishers dominating

• Overall OA cost estimate
• 1000 - 2500/article
• 8600 journal articles/year

Full conversion for journals with gt80
HEP Conversion of HEP fraction for important
broad band journals Support new OA journals
c about 10M
German sharingHGF 18, MPG 17, Univ 66
HEP and its Journals Journals (with their vaguely
anachronistic page and figure limits) are on the
way to lose a century-old role as vehicle of
scholarly communication. Journals assure
high-quality peer-review and act as
keepers-of-the-record. Evaluation of institutes
and researchers is based on peer-reviewed
articles. High-quality journals are
ourinterface with officialdomand need to be
financed. Articles are (in practice)
distributedvia the arXiv. But not all articles
are submitted to the arXiv, there is no
guarantee that the preprint is identical with
the published version. Due to the serial crisis
and the high arXiv-coverage HEP is at risk to
see its journals canceled by large
multidisciplinary university libraries.
Further readinghttp//scoap3.org Towards Open
Access Publishing in High Energy Physics
Report of the SCOAP3 Working Party
CERN-OPEN-2007-015 Meeting on establishing
a sponsoring consortium for Open Access
publishing in particle physics, Minutes, 3rd
November 2006, CERN. CERN-OPEN-2006-073 Quan
titative Analysis of the Publishing Landscape in
High-Energy Physics JHEP 12(2006)S01, arXiv
cs/0611130 or goto wikipedia (Open Access)
Serial Crisis
For HEP incl. Astroparticle Physics and related
Nuclear Physics (e.g. RHIC) 8600 articles/year
(from SPIRES in 2005)
DESY - October 2007