The Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3), the world’s largest disciplinary open access initiative, has reached the milestone of over 50,000 research articles published. Through partnerships with 11 leading journals, SCOAP3 has effectively transitioned the vast majority of research articles in the discipline to perpetual OA since 2014. These research papers include vital contributions from research organizations and institutions across the world: including the last paper published by Stephen Hawking and colleagues on Black Hole Entropy and a seminal paper from the CMS and ATLAS collaborations on the measurements of the Higgs boson production and decay rates, among the many thousands of others.
Established in 2014, SCOAP3 is a partnership of over 3,000 libraries, funding agencies, and research organizations from 44 countries and 3 intergovernmental organizations, hosted at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
Working with publishers of leading journals in the discipline, SCOAP3 has collectively supported open access publishing of research articles, enabling free global readership and re-use for high energy physics research, as well as barrier-free and equal publishing (i.e. without Article Processing Charges, APCs) for authors from 120 countries across the world.
The program has been cited as an inspiration for a range of efforts aiming to transition traditional scholarly publishing to OA. Through the concerted and collective effort of its members from around the world, SCOAP3 has demonstrated the viability of collective action for achieving equitable and sustainable OA publishing.
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