[IP-OA_Forum] Helmholtz-Allianz "Physik an der Teraskala" unterstützt SCOAP3

[Heinz Pampel]

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,

ich freue mich, Ihnen mitteilen zu können, dass die Helmholtz-Allianz  
"Physik an der Teraskala" das Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access 
Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) unterstützt:

SCOAP3 Statement of the Helmholtz Alliance 'Physics at the Terascale'

Unrestricted access to published scientific results is essential for 
wide dissemination and efficient usage of scientific knowledge.

The particle physics community has always been at the forefront of the 
open access movement. Today, the overwhelming majority of scientific 
results in high energy physics are freely available as eprints on 
institutional or subject repositories like arXiv.org, but often not in 
their final published form. Journals still play and will continue to 
play, via their peer-review system, a crucial role in the quality 
assurance of research results. However, access to the final journal 
versions gets more and more restricted, especially for scientists at 
small institutions, due to spiraling subscription costs which force 
libraries to cancel subscriptions even to important journals.

The SCOAP3 initiative proposes a new business model for scientific 
publishing, with the goal of extending open-access to the bulk of 
peer-reviewed particle physics literature. An international consortium 
of funding agencies, libraries and research institutions aims to convert 
prestigious peer-reviewed journals to open access in a way transparent 
to authors, at the same time being open for any new high-quality 
particle physics journal. Publication costs will be centrally borne by 
the consortium and will be shared according to the respective number of 
journal articles of its member countries.

The Management Board of the Helmholtz Alliance 'Physics at the 
Terascale' fully supports the goal of SCOAP3 of free and unrestricted 
electronic access to peer-reviewed journal literature in particle 
physics. We are convinced that the proposed fair-share business model 
will promote a healthy and dynamic market and will benefit scientists, 
authors, funding agencies and publishers alike. We therefore invite all 
partners in the Helmholtz Alliance to actively support the SCOAP3 
initiative, facilitate the large-scale transition to open-access in 
particle physics by raising awareness on open-access publishing in their 
communities and encourage their authors to publish in open-access journals.

URL: http://www.terascale.de/news/scoap3_initiative


Mit freundlichen Grüßen,


Heinz  Pampel

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Heinz Pampel

Helmholtz Open Access Projekt
Koordinationsbüro

GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ)
Bibliothek des Wissenschaftsparks Albert Einstein

Telegrafenberg
14473 Potsdam

Fon: + 49 (0) 331-288 1948
Fax: + 49 (0) 331-288 1607
E-Mail: pampel at gfz-potsdam.de
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