The Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) has chosen two Springer journals to participate in the initiative. The SCOAP3 consortium aims to convert journals in high energy physics to open access.
The two Springer journals are: the Journal of High Energy Physics, published for the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA - Trieste, Italy); and the European Physical Journal C, published with Società Italiana di Fisica. The selection is the result of an open and transparent tender process run by CERN for the benefit of SCOAP3, in which journal quality, price and publishing services were taken into account.
Springer is committed to close cooperation with CERN and the global library community to ensure the launch of SCOAP3 in 2014. Under SCOAP3, both journals will be converted to fully open access journals with a Creative Commons Attribution license. The costs will be centrally covered by the SCOAP3 consortium through a process of reduction and re-direction of subscription fees.
