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SUMMARY:Establishing a sponsoring consortium for Open Access publishing in
  particle physics
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20061103T080000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Executive Summary\n\nIn December 2005 a Task Force on Open Acc
 ess Publishing in Particle Physics was set up\, and it produced its report
  in June 2006. Its main conclusion was that a sponsorship model was the mo
 st appropriate for the transition period to full Open Access.\n\nThe prese
 nt meeting was called to discuss the formation of a consortium (SCOAP3) th
 at could coordinate this sponsorship. Representatives from major European 
 particle physics funding agencies\, library consortia and the research com
 munity attended.\n\nIn the past year\, many more physics publishers have i
 ntroduced Open Access options of one kind or another. It is fairly clear t
 hat these moves have been a direct consequence of the discussion on Open A
 ccess in the particle physics research community.\n\nThe maintenance of a 
 peer-review system for quality assurance\, currently carried out by the pu
 blishers\, was felt to be an essential element to preserve in the transiti
 on to Open Access.\n\nA move to full Open Access\, rather than the hybrid 
 variety currently proposed by several publishers\, was also felt to be des
 irable\, in order to avoid multiple payments for the same service.\n\n Det
 ailed statistics on the publication of particle physics articles written i
 n year 2005 were presented. Breakdowns both by journal and by country of a
 uthor affiliation led to preliminary estimates of what could constitute a 
 "fair share" model for financial contributions.\n\nIt was felt that a succ
 essful move to full Open Access publishing in particle physics could lead 
 the way to a similar move in other research areas.\nThe following decision
 s were taken unanimously by the meeting:\n\n1) That all participants would
  discuss in their own countries/organisations the setting up of such a con
 sortium\;\n2) An interim working party was established\, composed from tho
 se present\;\n3) This interim working party agreed to produce a progress r
 eport by 15th January 2007\;\n4) By the end of February 2007\, decisions t
 o join SCOAP3 should be taken.\n\nThese dates were fixed by working back f
 rom a proposed start of full Open Access particle physics publishing by Ja
 nuary 2008. A six-month period was stated to be needed before this for the
  tendering process with publishers. This rather stringent timescale was ad
 opted in order to be ready for the start-up of the LHC at CERN.\n\nhttp://
 indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=7168
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