March 27, 2008
News from IEEE
"IEEE Joins With Consortium to Provide Free Access to Physics Articles"
by Kathy Kowalenko
07 March 2008
The consortium is called the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3). Members include CERN, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the California Institute of Technology, and the Swedish National Library. The IEEE is using this vehicle as "a first application of its new Principles of Scholarly Publishing," approved in November. The consortium is currently "collecting pledges from libraries, funding agencies, and labs to change their subscriptions to direct payments, which will be channeled through SCOAP3 to the individual publishers..."
--posted by Kay Mann
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