Journal candidates for conversion to OA

1. SCOAP3 Time Line • Setup of Task Force in Dec 2005(authors, publishers and funding agencies) • Report of the Task Force issued 22 Jun 2006 • Interim working group established Nov 3 at CERN • Progress report of Interim WG April 2007 • Formal proposal April 2007 • Collect expressions of interest of funding partners • Identify country-by-country schemes to redirect money • Tendering process approx. 6 months • Full OA publishing operational for the first LHC articles Distribution of HEP articles by journal CERN, France, Greece, ItalyGermany(HGF, MPG, TIB) 24.2% Pledged 4.3% Coming soon Open Access publishing is complex:large funds from diverse sources - but small compared to LHC experiments 3.9% Coming later 67.6% Work in progress Distribution of HEP articles by publisher Distribution of HEP articles by country Establish OA publishing by using the blueprint used to finance and build the largest experiments ever 40 funding agencies 20 funding agencies ~10 M€ 400 M€+ manpower 10contracts 1 000contracts • SCOAP3 in a nutshell • Establish Open Access in HEP publishing in a transparent way for authors • Consortium of funding bodies, research labs and libraries pays centrally for peer-review • No individual author is asked to pay for OA • No “paying twice” for OA and subscription • Convert existing high-quality peer-reviewed journals to Open Access in a sustainable way • Publishers receive and process articles as before make final version available OA receive financial compensation by SCOAP3 • Publishers continue to meet demand for additional premium products (paper copies, color pages, …) • A single commercial partner for publishers stronger bargaining position • Operate along the blueprint of large collaborations • Agreements with partners and publishers on a 3-year sliding window • Price tag of ~10M€/year to be shared according to the distribution of HEP articles per country • Fair share model: 10% provision to waive fees for poor countries • The model has high potential but is only viable if every country contributing to HEP is on board! • The SCOAP3 model could be generalized to related fields: e.g. Nuclear and Astroparticle Physics Open Access& the SCOAP3 project • WHY HEP? • High Energy Physics is decades ahead in thinking Open Access • mailing of preprints since over half a century • arXiv.org (then hep-th@xxx.lanl.gov) since 08/91, before the web • experimented with “different” kind of journals, such as low cost (JHEP/JCAP/JINST) and sponsored OA (PR ST-AB) • Closely knit community with long-established tradition of cross-border collaboration • Relatively small global scientific output (~9000 articles, depending on ‘HEP’ definition) • Small publishing landscape: O(10) main journals • cThe conversion of the publication landscape to OA of a complete scientific field seems feasible Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics Journal candidates for conversion to OA SCOAP3 Financing Distributionof Articles • Conversion of subscription budget into sponsoring and publication charge funds • Funding agencies (DFG: national license) 6 journals with >80% HEP fractioncovering >50% of all HEP literature 4 publishers dominating Overall OA cost estimate: • 1000 - 2500€/article • ~8600 journal articles/year Full conversion for journals with >80% HEP Conversion of HEP fraction for important broad band journals Support new OA journals c about 10M€ German sharing:HGF: 18%, MPG: 17%, Univ: 66% HEP and its Journals Journals (with their vaguely anachronistic page and figure limits) are on the way to lose a century-old role as vehicle of scholarly communication. Journals assure high-quality peer-review and act as keepers-of-the-record. Evaluation of institutes and researchers is based on peer-reviewed articles. High-quality journals are our“interface with officialdom”and need to be financed. Articles are (in practice) distributedvia the arXiv. But not all articles are submitted to the arXiv, there is no guarantee that the preprint is identical with the published version. Due to the serial crisis and the high arXiv-coverage HEP is at risk to see its journals canceled by large multidisciplinary university libraries. Further readinghttp://scoap3.org Towards Open Access Publishing in High Energy Physics: Report of the SCOAP3 Working Party CERN-OPEN-2007-015 Meeting on establishing a sponsoring consortium for Open Access publishing in particle physics, Minutes, 3rd November 2006, CERN. CERN-OPEN-2006-073 Quantitative Analysis of the Publishing Landscape in High-Energy Physics JHEP 12(2006)S01, arXiv: cs/0611130 or goto wikipedia (Open Access) Serial Crisis For HEP incl. Astroparticle Physics and related Nuclear Physics (e.g. RHIC) ~8600 articles/year (from SPIRES in 2005) DESY - October 2007