The Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP³) has launched a new initiative to make books in particle physics and related domains fully open access under the SCOAP³ for Books program.
The SCOAP³ for Books program is the latest effort of the global collaboration to expand the content made openly available to include academic books in particle physics and neighboring disciplines (including accelerator physics, instrumentation, etc.).
Funded through the generous support of hundreds of institutions from within the collaboration, SCOAP³ has secured partnerships with leading academic publishers to make over 100 textbooks and monographs fully open access as part of the SCOAP³ for Books pilot. This new collaboration includes a partnership with OAPEN to provide hosting, dissemination, digital preservation, and analytics services.
Readers worldwide can now access over 60 books through the OAPEN Library SCOAP³ Collection, where more titles from the pilot will be added in the coming months. Books are also openly available through the publisher's websites.
Based on the positive experience of the pilot program, the SCOAP³ Governing Council, at its November 2022 meeting, has endorsed an ongoing books program to support the open-access publishing of new titles (‘born-OA’) relevant to the field.
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