SCOAP3-DH
Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics for German Universities and other institutions – Open Access Publishing in High Energy Physics
Head of TIB Projects:
Dr.rer.nat. Irina Sens
Project Manager:
Markus Brammer, LL.M.
Project Team:
Markus Brammer, LL.M.
Angelika Kutz
Project Funding:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Project Duration:
3 years
Cooporation Partners:
Deutsches Elektronen Synchotron (DESY)
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG)
Project Description
SCOAP3 is the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics – a global consortium of national and international research funding organisations in particle physics, particle physics research centres, leading national and international libraries and library consortia. The consortium has made it its aim to convert essential journals (at present financed by subscriptions) in particle physics into open access journals (with the support of the publishers). To achieve this, the participating institutions’ subscriptions for these journals are going to be redirected into a consortium subscription.
Within the framework of the SCOAP3-DH, preparations are being made for German universities and other institutions to participate in this international consortium. The project brief is the development of a business model for these institutions, the acquisition of facilities and institutions for participation in the consortium, the establishment of the consortium and, last but not least, the securing of the German universities’ and other institutions’ financing of their shares (of the subscriptions) in the transitional period from third-party funds. In addition to this, there is the development and implementation of concepts and workflows together with the national and international SCOAP3 partners to secure long-term availability and digital preservation. In the long-term, the documents should be made available in institutional and specialised repositories.
The setting-up of the consortium should take place with the support of, and indeed in close co-operation with, interested particle physic associations such as the Komitee für Elementar Teilchenphysik (KET) (the committee for elementary particle physics); the Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft’s “Physics at the Terascale” alliance; the “Arbeitsgruppe Information” (information working group) of the German Physical Society and the Conference of University Rectors.
Further Information
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