Open Access: SCOAP3 Tendering Process Complete, Twelve Journals from Seven Publishers Will Particpate

From a SCOAP³ Announcement:

SCOAP³ (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) is pleased to announce that its tendering process is now complete.

Acting for the benefit of SCOAP³, CERN conducted the tendering process and, on the basis of the bids submitted by publishers, has identified 12 journals from 7 publishers for participation in SCOAP³. This open and competitive procedure took into account the quality of the journals (as measured by Impact Factor), the quality of the services provided (as measured by re-use licenses and delivery formats), and the unit price for publishing each article.

Over 6’600 articles eligible for inclusion in SCOAP³ were published in these journals in 2011, comprising the vast majority of the high-quality peer-reviewed literature in the field of High Energy Physics.

Articles funded by SCOAP³ will be available Open Access in perpetuity, under a CC-BY license, while publishers will reduce their subscription fees accordingly. Detailed technical specifications are publicly available.

• American Physical Society
  • Physical Review C
  • Physical Review D
• Elsevier
  • Physics Letters B
  • Nuclear Physics B
• Hindawi
  • Advances in High Energy Physics
• Institute of Physics Publishing / Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Chinese Physics C
• Institute of Physics Publishing/SISSA
  • Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
• Institute of Physics Publishing/Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
  • New Journal of Physics
• Jagellonian University
  • Acta Physica Polonica B
• Oxford University Press/Physical Society of Japan
  • Progress of Theoretical Physics (To become PTEP)
• Springer/Società Italiana di Fisica
  • European Physical Journal C
• Springer/SISSA
  • Journal of High Energy Physics

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