Berlin 6 Open Access Conference: Salvatore Mele

SCOAP 3 A new publishing model for High-Energy Physics Anne Gentil-Beccot, Salvatore Mele, Jens Vigen CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research scoap3.org ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

High-Energy Physics (or Particle Physics) Job description for 20’000-30’000 scientists: "What is the world made of?” & "What holds it together?” ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Experimental HEP builds the largest scientific instruments ever to reach energy densities close to the Big Bang (Half of the community, 20% of literature) Theoretical HEP predicts and interprets the observed phenomena (Half of the community, 80% of literature)

CERN: European Organization for Nuclear Research (since 1954) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],CERN Convention (1953): ante-litteram Open Access manifesto “… the results of its experimental and theoretical work shall be published or otherwise made generally available”

Open Access: Grant anybody, anywhere and anytime access to the (peer-reviewed) results of (publicly-funded) research

arXiv, the archetypal subject repository Discovery and first plateaus Steady state & constant output ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Conference contributions Much more in Paul Ginsparg’s closing keynote!

Information discovery in HEP User survey with over 2000 answers ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Which HEP Information System do you use the most? Gentil-Beccot et al. arxiv:0804.2701 6% for scholars > 6 career years 22% for scholars < 2 career years Catalogue of preprints and published material. Given a choice between an arXiv link and a publisher website, 80-90% of the times users go to arXiv.

HEP and its journals ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The HEP publishing landscape ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Source: SPIRES, 2006

US and European HEP journals Study of 11326 HEP articles published in 2005-2006 in PRD,JHEP,PLB,NPB,EPJC,PRL and NIMA Krause et al . CERN-OPEN-2007-014 OA solutions in HEP must be geographically global, as HEP research is a global endeavor

Evolving publication habits Source: SPIRES Phases of stability alternated with fast growth/decline N.B. Only articles which appeared in the six largest HEP journals are considered.

HEP and Open Access ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

A strong request from the scientists ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],4 experimental groups 7000 scientists from 54 countries

Open Access business models in HEP ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],SPONSORED ARTICLE ,[object Object],[object Object],(<<1%) (<<1%) (~4%) (and percentage of HEP literature)

The SCOAP 3 model S ponsoring C onsortium for O pen A ccess P ublishing in P article P hysics Going beyond current experiments http://scoap3.org/files/Scoap3ExecutiveSummary.pdf http://scoap3.org/files/Scoap3WPReport.pdf scoap3.org

The SCOAP 3 Model A consortium sponsors HEP publications and makes them Open Access by re-directing subscription money. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Today: (funding bodies through) libraries purchase journal subscriptions to (indirectly) support the peer-review service and to allow their users to read articles. Tomorrow: funding bodies and libraries contribute to the SCOAP 3 consortium, which pays centrally for the organization of the peer-review service, through a call for tender. Articles are free to read for everyone. SCOAP 3 is not limited to any set of journals but open to all high-quality HEP journals!

Novelties of the SCOAP 3 model ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Guesstimating the budget envelope ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],HEP Open Access price tag: 10M€/year ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],(data and exchange rate of April ‘07) The final price-tag for SCOAP 3 will be known after a call for tender for the peer-review and other editorial services will be placed with publishers

SCOAP 3 financing SCOAP 3 to be funded through a “fair-share” model based on the fraction of HEP articles per country: the more a country uses the system the larger its share. Figures are very stable over time. Allowing only SCOAP 3 partners to publish Open Access would replicate the subscription scheme and not solve the problems. Make a 10% allowance for developing countries who at the beginning might not contribute to the scheme. The model is viable only if every country is on board! Success through consensus and unanimity, not majority. Not a weakness: a strength! Krause et al. CERN-OPEN-2007-014

SCOAP 3 funding mechanisms ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Status of the SCOAP 3 fund-raising 56% of funds have been or are about to be pledged by library consortia, HEP funding agencies, national libraries Discussions and negotiations in progress with all countries not yet in the list, in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Austria Belgium CERN Denmark France Germany Greece Hungary Italy Netherlands Norway Romania Slovakia Sweden Switzerland JISC (UK) 47 US partners (>50%) -consortia (NERL,CDL,GWLA,OhioLink...) -laboratories -individual libraries Turkey Australia 0.8M€ 4.8M€ 4.4M€

A slide from Berlin5, Sept. ‘07 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Meanwhile, other things happened ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

SCOAP 3 timeline ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Thank you! [email_address] scoap3.org Additional resources: Report of the SCOAP3 Working Party http://scoap3.org/files/Scoap3WPReport.pdf R. Heuer et al. Innovation in Scholarly Communication: Vision and Projects from High-Energy Physics http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2739 R. Aymar, Scholarly communication in High-Energy Physics http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1115073 A. Gentil-Beccot et al. Information Resources in High-Energy Physics: Surveying the Present Landscape and Charting the Future Course http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.2701 Job opening: Study of Open Access Publishing http://tinyurl.com/SOAP-CERN

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