SCOAP3 a new publishing model for HighEnergy Physics

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SCOAP3a new publishing model for High-Energy
Physics

• HEP and CERN
• Scholarly communication Open Access in HEP
• The SCOAP3 model
• The SCOAP3 fundrising
• A possible role for India
• Conclusions and outlook

Salvatore Mele, Jens Vigen CERN European
Organization for Nuclear Research
scoap3.org
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High-Energy Physics (or Particle Physics)
"What is the world made of? "What holds it
together?

• HEP aims to understand how our Universe works
• discover the constituents of matter and energy
• understand their interactions
• unveil the ultimate texture of space and time

Experimental HEP builds the largest scientific
instruments ever to reach energy densities close
to the Big Bang (15000 scientists, 20 of
literature) Theoretical HEP predicts and
interprets the observed phenomena (15000
scientists, 80 of literature)
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CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research
(since 1954)

• The world leading HEP laboratory, Geneva (CH)
• 2500 staff (mostly engineers,administrators/servic
  es)
• 9000 users (physicists from 580 institutes in 85
  countries)
• 3 Nobel prizes (Accelerators, Detectors,
  Discoveries)
• Invented the web
• Sept. 10, 2008 switched-on the 27-km (6bn) LHC
  accelerator, the big-bang machine (First
  articles in 2009)
• Director General and Director General Designate
  strong advocates of Open Access
• Runs a 1-million objects Digital Library

CERN Convention (1953) ante-litteram Open
Access manifesto the results of its
experimental and theoretical work shall be
published or otherwise made generally available
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The Large Hadron Collider

• Largest scientific instrument
• ever built, 27km of circumference
• The coolest place in the Universe
• -271C
• 10000 people involved in its
• design and construction
• Worldwide budget of 6bn
• Will collide protons to reproduce
• conditions at the birth of the
• Universe...
• ...40 million times a second

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Important contributions from Bhabha Atomic
Research Centre (Mumbai), Burdwan University
(Burdwan), Department of Atomic Energy (Kolkata),
Aligarh Muslim University (Aligarh), Bhubaneswar
University (Bhubaneswar), Matrivani Institute of
Experimental Research Education (Kolkata),
Panjab University (Chandigarh), Saha Institute of
Nuclear Physics (Kolkata), Tata Institute of
Fundamental Research (Mumbai), University of
Delhi South Campus (New Delhi), University of
Jammu (Jammu), University of Rajasthan (Jaipur) -
CAT, IGCAR, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre of
the Department of Atomic Energy (Kolkata),
Institute of Physics (Bhubaneswar, Orissa)
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The LHC experimentsabout 100 million sensors
each think your 6MP digital camera......taking
40 million pictures a second
ATLAS
CMS
five-storey building
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A strong request from the scientists
"We strongly encourage the usage of electronic
publishing methods for our publications and
support the principles of Open Access Publishing,
which includes granting free access of our
publications to all. Furthermore, we encourage
all our members to publish papers in easily
accessible journals, following the principles of
the Open Access Paradigm." ATLAS approved on
23rd February 2007CMS approved on 2nd
March 2007ALICE approved on 9th March
2007 LHCb approved on 12th March 2007
4 experimental groups 7000 scientists from 54
countries 105 scientists from 12 Indian institutes
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Open AccessGrant anybody, anywhere and
anytimeaccess to the (peer-reviewed)results of
(publicly-funded) research(...and contain
overall costs for libraries)
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The HEP preprint culture
L.Goldschmidt-Clermont, 1965, http//eprints.rclis
.org/archive/00000445/02/communication_patterns.pd
f L. Addis, 2002, http//www.slac.stanford.edu/spi
res/papers/history.html R.Heuer et al,
http//arXiv.org/abs/0805.2739

• In the 60s, HEP scientists could not wait 1
  year for their articles to reach their peers
  through journals
• Preprints as main vehicle of information in HEP
• Researchers (of affluent institutions)
  mass-mailed preprints to hundreds of (prestigious
  and therefore affluent) institutions
• Ante-litteram (institution-pays) Open Access!
• HEP libraries classified preprints received
  worldwide
• Natural evolutions in scholarly communication
• First e-catalogue of grey literature (SPIRES,
  Stanford, 1974)
• First repository (arXiv.org, Los Alamos, 1991)
• First web site in North America (SPIRES,
  Stanford, 1991)
• Today, 91 of HEP scientists uses arXiv or SPIRES
  for their information need (and the rest Google)

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arXiv, the archetypal subject repository
Discovery and first plateaus
Steady state constant output
Conference contributions

• (Green) Open Access, second nature posting to
  arXiv before even submitting to a journal is
  common practice
• No mandate, no debate, no advocacy.
  Author-benefit driven
• Author-formatted peer-reviewed revisions
  routinely uploaded
• All publishers allow self-archiving. APS hosts an
  arXiv mirror!

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HEP and its journals

• Journals are on the way to lose (lost?) a
  century-old role as vehicles of scholarly
  communication.
• Still, evaluation of institutes and (young)
  researchers is based on high-quality
  peer-reviewed journals.
• The main role of journals is to assure
  high-quality peer-review and act as
  keepers-of-the-records
• The HEP community needs high-quality journals,
  our interface with officialdom
• Implicitly, the HEP community supports this role
  by purchasing subscriptions, as 80-90 reads
  only arXiv
• Some subscription prices make the current model
  unsustainable, in HEP and elsewhere
• As an all-arXiv discipline HEP is at high risk
  to see its journal canceled by large
  multidisciplinary university libraries (when not
  already happened)

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Whats the problem with (some) journals?

• Organizing the peer-review has a cost
• It is accepted that this cost is borne by the
  community (so far by the readers, through
  subscription prices)
• How much do the costs grow?

The present subscription model is not
sustainable the community needs a new model to
(1) contain costs and (2) achieve Open Access
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The HEP publishing landscape
Source SPIRES, 2006

• 5000-7000 HEP articles/year, according to
  definition of HEP
• Practically all articles are available as arXiv
  OA pre/post-prints
• 90 of articles are in theory
• 80 of articles published in 6 leading journals
  by 4 publishers
• 62 of articles by not-for-profit (nor-for-loss)
  publishers
• SCOAP3 is not limited to any set of journals but
  open to all high-quality HEP journals!

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US and European HEP journals
Krause et al. CERN-OPEN-2007-014
OA solutions in HEP must be geographically
global, as HEP research is a global endeavor
Study of 11326 HEP articles published in
2005-2006 in PRD,JHEP,PLB,NPB,EPJC,PRL and NIMA
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Publications by Indian HEP scientists
Where are arXivhep preprints with at least a
Indian author published?
Source S.Mele el al, JHEP 12(2006)S01
Normalization to the number of authors onto a
paper only the Indian" fraction of an article
is counted. E.g. article with only 2 authors,
both Indian, counts as 1, an article with 9
physicists out of which only 3 are Indian, counts
as 1/3.
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Publications by Indian HEP scientists
208 Institutes contributing to 2679 HEP articles
since 2004
Source SPIRES
ARIES, Nainital, Agra U., Ahmedabad, Phys. Res.
Lab, Aligarh Muslim U., Allahabad U., Amity U.,
Sch. Eng. Tech., Amravati U., Amrita U., Ananda
Mohan Coll., Andhra U., Assam Sci. Tech. Envir.
Council, Assam U, B.J.B. Coll., Balichak Girls'
HS, Banaras Hindu U., Bangalore U., Bangalore,
Indian Inst. Astrophys.,Bangalore, Indian Inst.
Sci., Bankura Sammilani Coll., Bapurao Deshmukh
Coll. Eng., Barasat Govt. Coll.m Baroda U.,
Behala Coll., Kolkata, Bengal Engin. Sci. U.,
Howrah, Berhampur U., Bhabha Atomic Res. Ctr.,
Bharat Electronics, Bangalore, Bhat, Inst. Plasma
Res., Bhubaneswar, Inst. Phys., Birla Inst. Tech.
Sci., Birla Inst. Technol Mesra, Birla Sci. Ctr.,
Hyderabad, Bose Inst., Kolkata, Bose Natl. Ctr.,
Kolkata, Burdwan U., CAT, INDUS, CECRI,
Karaikudi, CREST, Hoskote, Calcutta Inst. Tech.,
Calcutta U., Dept. Appl. Math., Calcutta, Central
Drugs Lab., Calcutta, City Coll., Calcutta, VECC,
Calicut U., Chennai Math. Inst., Cochin U.,
Cotton Coll., Gauhati, Ctr. for Space Phys.,
Kolkata, DSN Coll., Unnao, Darjeeling Govt.
Coll., Debraj Coll., Golaghat, Deen Dayal
Upadhyaya Coll., Delhi Coll. Engin., Delhi U.,
Devi Ahilya U., Dinabandhu Andrews Coll.,
Durgapur Govt. Coll., Fazl Ali Coll., G.C. Coll.,
Silchar, GMR, Rajam, Gangadhar Meher Coll.,
Garhwal U., Gauhati U., Gorakhpur U., Govt.
Coll., Sawai Madhopur, Gujarat U., Guru Nanak Dev
U., Gurudas Coll., Kolkata, Haldia Inst. Tech.,
ICARE, Harish Chandra Coll., Harish-Chandra Res.
Inst., Heritage Inst. Tech., Himachal Pradesh U.,
Hindu Post-Graduate Coll., Hyderabad U.,
Hyderabad, IIIT, IACS, Kolkata, IIT, Roorkee,
IMSc, Chennai, ISRO, Bangalore, IUAC, New Delhi,
IUC-DAEF, Kolkata, IUCAA, Pune, India
Meteorological Dept., Alipore, Indian Inst.
Tech., Guwahati, Indian Inst. Tech., Kanpur,
Indian Inst. Tech., Kharagpur, Indian Inst.
Tech., Madras, Indian Inst. Tech., Mumbai, Indian
Inst. Tech., New Delhi ,Indian Space Res. Org.,
Indian Statistical Inst., Bangalore, Indian
Statistical Inst., Calcutta, Indore, Ctr. for
Advanced Tech., Inst. Natl. Phil., India, JECRC,
Jaipur, Jabalpur, Govt. Eng. Coll., ,Jadavpur U.,
Jaipuria Coll., Calcutta, Jamia Millia Islamia,
Jammu U., Jangipur Coll., Jhargram Raj Coll.,
Jorhat, Coll. Sci., K.N. Post-Graduate Coll.,
KSIT, Bangalore, Kalpakkam Reactor Res. Ctr.,
Kalyani U., Kanpur, Christ Church Coll., Karnatak
U., Kashmir U., ,Khallikote Coll., Berhampur,
Kumaun U., Kurukshetra U., L.B.S. Coll., Lady
Brabourne Coll., Calcutta, Lucknow U., M.N.
College, M.V.G.R. Coll. Engin., Vizianagaram,
Madras Christian Coll., Madras U., Maharaja
Manindra Chandra Coll., Maharajas Coll., Maharshi
Dayanand U., Mahatma Gandhi U., Mangalore U.,
Manipal Inst. Tech., Manipal U., Manipur U.,
Manonmaniam Sundaranar U., Matrivani Inst.,
Calcutta, Maulana Azad Coll., Meghnath Saha Inst.
Technol., Mohanlal Sukhadia U., Motilal Nehru
Natl. Inst. Tech., Mumbai U., Mysore, Coll.
Education, NCRA, Ganeshkhind, Nagpur U., Nagpur,
Central Res. Inst., Narasinha Dutt Coll.,Narsapur
Swarnandhra Coll. Engin. Technol., Natl. Inst.
Tech., Durgapur, Natl. MST Radar Facility, Nehru
U., Netaji Nagar Coll. for Women, Netaji Nagar
Day Coll., Netaji Subhas Inst. Technol., New
Delhi, New Alipore Coll., New Delhi, Natl.
Physical Lab, North Bengal U., Darjeeling, North
Orissa U., Northeastern Hill U., Shillong,
Osmania U., Panjab U., Poornaprajna Inst. Sci.
Res., Prananath Coll., Presidency Coll.,
Calcutta, Priyadarshini Coll. Eng., Pune U.,
Punjab Eng. Coll., Punjabi U., RBS Coll., Agra,
Raghunathpur Coll., Raisoni Coll. Eng., Rajasthan
U., Raman Research Inst., Bangalore, Ramjas
Coll., Rewa, Govt. Sci. Coll., Roorkee U.,
Rourkela, Regional Eng. Coll., S.C.S. Coll.,
Puri, S.D.J. Post-Graduate Coll., Azamgarh, SBMJ
Coll., Bangalore, SGTB Khalsa Coll., SLIET,
Longowal, Saha Inst., Sambalpur U., Sardar Patel
U., Satya Bharati Vidyapith, Sci. Coll., Nagpur,
Sci. Coll., Pauni, Scottish Church Coll.,
Calcutta, Shanmugha Eng. Coll., Sikar Sobhasaria
Engin. Coll., Sonepur Coll., Orissa, Sovarani
Mem. Coll., Howrah, Sri Sathya Sai Inst., St.
Joseph's Coll., Tiruchirapalli, St. Stephen's
Coll., St. Thomas Coll., India, St. Xaviers
Coll., Kolkata, Stani Coll., Surendranath Coll.,
TDB Coll., Raniganj , Tata Inst., Tezpur U.,
UGC-DAE CSR, Kolkata, Uluberia Coll., Utkal U.,
Vidyasagar Evening Coll., Vidyasagar U., Vijaya
Coll., Visakhapatnam GITAM U., Visva Bharati U.,
Visvesvaraya Coll. Eng., Vivekananda Coll.,
Washim R.A. Mahavidyalaya Coll.
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Evolving publication habits
Source SPIRES
Phases of stability alternated with fast
growth/decline N.B. Only articles which appeared
in the six largest HEP journals are considered.
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Surprising reading habits
Data CERN, DESY, FNAL, IN2P3, INFN
Preliminary data from a sample of 4000 HEP
scientists in 5 institutes and countries
Full-text downloads per user per year
arXiv coverage
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Information discovery in HEP
Gentil-Beccot et al. arxiv0804.2701
User survey with over 2000 answers
Which HEP Information System do you use the most?

• 91 Community services 9 Google lt0.1
  Commercial services
• 40 Subject repositories
• 51 Lab-supported databases

6 for scholars gt 6 career years 22 for scholars
lt 2 career years
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HEP and Open Access

• After preprints, arXiv and the web,
• Open Access journals
• are the natural evolution of
• HEP scholarly communication

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Open Access business models in HEP
(and percentage of HEP literature)
SPONSORED ARTICLE

• Hybrid model Per-article OA fee on top of
  subscriptions
• Negligible success in HEP. Author FAQ why pay
  something (peer-review) you can get for free (the
  library pays subscriptions)

(ltlt1)

• Author-pays No subscriptions. Authors
  (institutions) pay per-article journals
  processing fees
• Model in its infancy in HEP. Author FAQ why pay
  something you can get for free elsewhere (the
  library pays subscriptions)

(ltlt1)

• Institutional membership for a (small) fee
  in addition to subscriptions, all articles with
  at least one author from the institution are OA
• Leading laboratories (LHC) and the entire France
  trying this scheme.
• Authors like OA without financial barriers in
  high-IF journals

(4)
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National Open Access initiatives in HEP(and
other fields of physics)

• Pramana
• Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National
  Science Academy, Indian Physics Association
• Brazilian Journal of Physics
• Brazilian Physical Society
• Acta Physica Polonica
• Jagellonian University, Cracow, Polish Academy of
  Arts and Sciences
• ...
• Mix business models government/academy
  sponsorship, print subscriptions, membership
  fees.
• Excellent outlets to disseminate to wider world
  science done in one country (and/or by younger
  scientists)
• Do not solve key problems of libraries subscribe
  to a large/expensive amount of content produced
  worldwide

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The SCOAP3 model
Going beyond current experiments
Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing
in Particle Physics
scoap3.org
http//scoap3.org/files/Scoap3ExecutiveSummary.pdf
http//scoap3.org/files/Scoap3WPReport.pdf
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The SCOAP3 Model
A consortium sponsors HEP publications and makes
them Open Access by re-directing subscription
money.
Today (funding bodies through) libraries
purchase journal subscriptions to (indirectly)
support the peer-review service and to allow
their users to read articles. Tomorrow funding
bodies and libraries contribute to the SCOAP3
consortium, which pays centrally for the
organization of the peer-review service, through
a call for tender. Articles are free to read for
everyone.

• Five core journals PRD, JHEP, PLB, NPB, EPJC
• Carry a majority of HEP content aim to convert
  entirely to Open Access
• Two broadband journal PRL, NIM
• 10 25 HEP conversion to Open Access of this
  fraction
• Other, lower-volume, high-quality HEP journals
• conversion to Open Access of the HEP content

SCOAP3 is not limited to any set of journals but
open to all high-quality HEP journals!
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Guesstimating the budget envelope
(data and exchange rate of April 07)

• Physical Review D (APS) income of
• 2.7M/year (31 of arXivhep)
• Journal of High Energy Physics (SISSA/IOP) needs
  1M/year (19 of arXivhep)

HEP Open Access price tag 10M/year

• Other ways to estimate the budget envelope
• A published PRD article costs APS 1500
• Volume of HEP articles 5000-7000/year

The final price-tag for SCOAP3 will be known
after a call for tender for the peer-review and
other editorial services will be placed with
publishers
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SCOAP3 financing
SCOAP3 to be funded through a fair-share model
based on the fraction of HEP articles per
country the more a country uses the system the
larger its share. Figures are very stable over
time.
The model is viable only if every country is on
board! Success through consensus and unanimity,
not majority. Not a weakness a strength!
Krause et al. CERN-OPEN-2007-014
Make a 10 allowance for countries without a
scientific or library infrastructure who at the
beginning might not contribute to the scheme.
Allowing only SCOAP3 partners to publish Open
Access would replicate the subscription scheme
and not solve the problems.
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How are you going to put it together?
40 funding agencies
400 M (Excluding person-power)
1000 contracts
The ATLAS detector ready for discoveries at the
LHC!
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SCOAP3 - HEP collaborative experience
O(50) partners
10 M
O(10) contracts with publishers
Establish OA publishing by using the blueprint
used to finance and build the largest experiments
ever!
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The response of libraries worldwide tothe SCOAP3
model

scoap3.org
http//scoap3.org/whoisscoap3.html
http//scoap3.org/fundraising.html
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Novelties of the SCOAP3 model

• A sustainable alternative to the subscription
  model meeting the expectations of researchers,
  funding agencies, libraries and publishers.
• Link, through its call for tender, price and
  quality. Correlate through its contracts volume
  and price. This is not the case in the
  subscription model.
• Eliminate author-pays fees, in competition with
  research funds which appear as a barrier for Open
  Access in HEP. There is no such competition in
  the SCOAP3 model based on re-direction of
  subscriptions.
• Experiment for journal-administered peer-review
  services against a unique background of complete
  self-archiving of research articles.

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Novelties of the SCOAP3 model
Converting an entire field by re-directing
subscription funds avoids paying more for OA
"Traditional" Subscription Journals
Open Access Journals
?
Expenditure
Number of articles
Time
Flipping the entire volume avoids surprises!
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Evolving publication habits
Source SPIRES
Phases of stability alternated with fast
growth/decline N.B. Only articles which appeared
in the six largest HEP journals are considered.
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Next steps

• Funding partners identify country-by-country
  schemes to re-direct journal subscriptions to
  SCOAP3 no money changes hands
• Countries pledge their contribution to SCOAP3
  through a countrywide Expression of Interest
  no money
  changes hands
• Once a sizeable fraction of budget is pledged
• SCOAP3 formally established, with international
  governance
• SCOAP3 can issue a tender to publishers
  no money changes hands
• Publishers answer the tender agreeing to
• Journal licence packages are un-bundled, the OA
  titles are removed and subscription prices are
  reduced accordingly
• In the case of long-term subscription contracts,
  publishers will be required to reimburse
  subscription costs pertaining to OA journals
• 
  
  no money changes hands
• SCOAP3 international governing board adjudicates
  contracts
• no money changes hands
• Contracts with publisher are signed and funds are
  transferred to SCOAP3
  payments happen
• Aim to 3-year tendering cycle,with funding
  commitments in sliding windows

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Status of the SCOAP3 fund-raising
56 of funds have been or are about to be
pledged, commitment to re-direct subscriptions to
HEP journals mostly by library consortia acting
on behalf of whole countries
5.0M
Austria Belgium CERN Denmark France Germany Greece
Hungary
Italy Netherlands Norway Romania Slovakia Sweden S
witzerland JISC (UK)
47 US partners (gt50) -consortia(NERL,CDL,GWLA,Oh
ioLink...) -laboratories -individual libraries
4.4M
Australia
Israel, Turkey
0.6M
Discussions and negotiations in progress with
all countries not yet in the list, in Europe,
Asia and the Americas.
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SCOAP3 cannot happen without Indian support !

• India is the 11th largest contributor to HEP
  authorship
• 2.7 of authors of HEP articles are affiliated to
  Indian institutes()
• Potential yearly SCOAP3 contribution of 297k, to
  compare to nationwide subscriptions to HEP
  journals

() 208 Indian Institutes with authors who
published a HEP article since 2004 (source
SPIRES)
ARIES, Nainital, Agra U., Ahmedabad, Phys. Res.
Lab, Aligarh Muslim U., Allahabad U., Amity U.,
Sch. Eng. Tech., Amravati U., Amrita U., Ananda
Mohan Coll., Andhra U., Assam Sci. Tech. Envir.
Council, Assam U, B.J.B. Coll., Balichak Girls'
HS, Banaras Hindu U., Bangalore U., Bangalore,
Indian Inst. Astrophys.,Bangalore, Indian Inst.
Sci., Bankura Sammilani Coll., Bapurao Deshmukh
Coll. Eng., Barasat Govt. Coll.m Baroda U.,
Behala Coll., Kolkata, Bengal Engin. Sci. U.,
Howrah, Berhampur U., Bhabha Atomic Res. Ctr.,
Bharat Electronics, Bangalore, Bhat, Inst. Plasma
Res., Bhubaneswar, Inst. Phys., Birla Inst. Tech.
Sci., Birla Inst. Technol Mesra, Birla Sci. Ctr.,
Hyderabad, Bose Inst., Kolkata, Bose Natl. Ctr.,
Kolkata, Burdwan U., CAT, INDUS, CECRI,
Karaikudi, CREST, Hoskote, Calcutta Inst. Tech.,
Calcutta U., Dept. Appl. Math., Calcutta, Central
Drugs Lab., Calcutta, City Coll., Calcutta, VECC,
Calicut U., Chennai Math. Inst., Cochin U.,
Cotton Coll., Gauhati, Ctr. for Space Phys.,
Kolkata, DSN Coll., Unnao, Darjeeling Govt.
Coll., Debraj Coll., Golaghat, Deen Dayal
Upadhyaya Coll., Delhi Coll. Engin., Delhi U.,
Devi Ahilya U., Dinabandhu Andrews Coll.,
Durgapur Govt. Coll., Fazl Ali Coll., G.C. Coll.,
Silchar, GMR, Rajam, Gangadhar Meher Coll.,
Garhwal U., Gauhati U., Gorakhpur U., Govt.
Coll., Sawai Madhopur, Gujarat U., Guru Nanak Dev
U., Gurudas Coll., Kolkata, Haldia Inst. Tech.,
ICARE, Harish Chandra Coll., Harish-Chandra Res.
Inst., Heritage Inst. Tech., Himachal Pradesh U.,
Hindu Post-Graduate Coll., Hyderabad U.,
Hyderabad, IIIT, IACS, Kolkata, IIT, Roorkee,
IMSc, Chennai, ISRO, Bangalore, IUAC, New Delhi,
IUC-DAEF, Kolkata, IUCAA, Pune, India
Meteorological Dept., Alipore, Indian Inst.
Tech., Guwahati, Indian Inst. Tech., Kanpur,
Indian Inst. Tech., Kharagpur, Indian Inst.
Tech., Madras, Indian Inst. Tech., Mumbai, Indian
Inst. Tech., New Delhi ,Indian Space Res. Org.,
Indian Statistical Inst., Bangalore, Indian
Statistical Inst., Calcutta, Indore, Ctr. for
Advanced Tech., Inst. Natl. Phil., India, JECRC,
Jaipur, Jabalpur, Govt. Eng. Coll., ,Jadavpur U.,
Jaipuria Coll., Calcutta, Jamia Millia Islamia,
Jammu U., Jangipur Coll., Jhargram Raj Coll.,
Jorhat, Coll. Sci., K.N. Post-Graduate Coll.,
KSIT, Bangalore, Kalpakkam Reactor Res. Ctr.,
Kalyani U., Kanpur, Christ Church Coll., Karnatak
U., Kashmir U., ,Khallikote Coll., Berhampur,
Kumaun U., Kurukshetra U., L.B.S. Coll., Lady
Brabourne Coll., Calcutta, Lucknow U., M.N.
College, M.V.G.R. Coll. Engin., Vizianagaram,
Madras Christian Coll., Madras U., Maharaja
Manindra Chandra Coll., Maharajas Coll., Maharshi
Dayanand U., Mahatma Gandhi U., Mangalore U.,
Manipal Inst. Tech., Manipal U., Manipur U.,
Manonmaniam Sundaranar U., Matrivani Inst.,
Calcutta, Maulana Azad Coll., Meghnath Saha Inst.
Technol., Mohanlal Sukhadia U., Motilal Nehru
Natl. Inst. Tech., Mumbai U., Mysore, Coll.
Education, NCRA, Ganeshkhind, Nagpur U., Nagpur,
Central Res. Inst., Narasinha Dutt Coll.,Narsapur
Swarnandhra Coll. Engin. Technol., Natl. Inst.
Tech., Durgapur, Natl. MST Radar Facility, Nehru
U., Netaji Nagar Coll. for Women, Netaji Nagar
Day Coll., Netaji Subhas Inst. Technol., New
Delhi, New Alipore Coll., New Delhi, Natl.
Physical Lab, North Bengal U., Darjeeling, North
Orissa U., Northeastern Hill U., Shillong,
Osmania U., Panjab U., Poornaprajna Inst. Sci.
Res., Prananath Coll., Presidency Coll.,
Calcutta, Priyadarshini Coll. Eng., Pune U.,
Punjab Eng. Coll., Punjabi U., RBS Coll., Agra,
Raghunathpur Coll., Raisoni Coll. Eng., Rajasthan
U., Raman Research Inst., Bangalore, Ramjas
Coll., Rewa, Govt. Sci. Coll., Roorkee U.,
Rourkela, Regional Eng. Coll., S.C.S. Coll.,
Puri, S.D.J. Post-Graduate Coll., Azamgarh, SBMJ
Coll., Bangalore, SGTB Khalsa Coll., SLIET,
Longowal, Saha Inst., Sambalpur U., Sardar Patel
U., Satya Bharati Vidyapith, Sci. Coll., Nagpur,
Sci. Coll., Pauni, Scottish Church Coll.,
Calcutta, Shanmugha Eng. Coll., Sikar Sobhasaria
Engin. Coll., Sonepur Coll., Orissa, Sovarani
Mem. Coll., Howrah, Sri Sathya Sai Inst., St.
Joseph's Coll., Tiruchirapalli, St. Stephen's
Coll., St. Thomas Coll., India, St. Xaviers
Coll., Kolkata, Stani Coll., Surendranath Coll.,
TDB Coll., Raniganj , Tata Inst., Tezpur U.,
UGC-DAE CSR, Kolkata, Uluberia Coll., Utkal U.,
Vidyasagar Evening Coll., Vidyasagar U., Vijaya
Coll., Visakhapatnam GITAM U., Visva Bharati U.,
Visvesvaraya Coll. Eng., Vivekananda Coll.,
Washim R.A. Mahavidyalaya Coll.
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SCOAP3 timeline

• Funding partners identify country-by-country
  schemes to re-direct journal subscriptions to
  SCOAP3 and pledge their contribution to SCOAP3
• Once a sizeable fraction of budget is pledged,
  reflecting the worldwide character of HEP and
  SCOAP3
• SCOAP3 will be formally established, with
  international governance
• SCOAP3 can issue a tender to publishers
• Publishers answer the tender agreeing to
• Journal licence packages are un-bundled, the OA
  titles are removed and subscription prices are
  reduced accordingly
• In the case of long-term subscription contracts,
  publishers will be required to reimburse
  subscription costs pertaining to OA journals
• SCOAP3 international governing board adjudicates
  contracts, taking into account journal quality
  and prices
• Contracts with publisher are signed and funds are
  transferred to SCOAP3 which then pays publishers.
  
• Aim to 3-year tendering cycle, with funding
  commitments in sliding windows

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Thank you!
Salvatore.Mele_at_cern.ch Jens.Vigen_at_cern.ch scoap3.o
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Additional resources Report of the SCOAP3
Working Party http//scoap3.org/files/Scoap3WPRepo
rt.pdf R. Heuer et al. Innovation in Scholarly
Communication Vision and Projects from
High-Energy Physics http//arxiv.org/abs/0805.273
9 R. Aymar, Scholarly communication in
High-Energy Physics http//cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1
115073 A. Gentil-Beccot et al. Information
Resources in High-Energy Physics Surveying the
Present Landscape and Charting the Future Course
http//arxiv.org/abs/0804.2701