The LANL Research Library has joined several libraries in the US and internationally in expressing support for the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3). SCOAP3 seeks to make articles in selected high energy physics (HEP) journals free to read for everyone. It is a proposed mechanism for a field of science to pay for its own publishing costs, rather than make the readers of its journals pay via subscriptions or authors pay via author fees.
In this model, HEP funding agencies and libraries, which purchase journal subscriptions to implicitly support the peer-review service, unite to explicitly cover the base costs of publishing and peer-review, and the associated publishers make the electronic versions of their HEP journals free to read widely across the globe. In the proposed SCOAP3 model, everyone involved in producing the literature of particle physics (universities, labs, and funding agencies) pays into the consortium which then pays publishers and all articles in the field become available via Open Access (OA).
The LANL Research Library is supporting SCOAP3 as a member of the HEP community and a proponent of open access principles.
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