Representatives of university libraries recently met with representatives of the German SCOAP3 partners - TIB, Max-Planck-Society und Helmholtz Association - for a workshop at TIB in Hannover. The international consortium SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) seeks to convert high quality High Energy Physics (HEP) journals to Open Access journals of the golden road.
At the Workshop a report was given about the progress of the project at the national and international level. During a first meeting of the international partners in April it was decided to have the concept implemented by January 1, 2013. Shortly, the market survey will be published and the international tender procedure will formally begin after a period of intense preparation.
An important topic of the workshop was the presentation and discussion of a calculation model which will serve to distribute the costs among the German universities and other institutions after the implementation of the consortium.
TIB coordinates the implementation for universities and other institutions in Germany. This also comprises the development of a business model for German universities and other institutions.
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