...[CHIPP represents] 9 universities and federal institutes of technology in Switzerland active in the field of High Energy Physics....
The CHIPP Executive Board declared that: "CHIPP welcomes the SCOAP3 initiative, which paves the way towards open access publishing, keeping the essential peer review process intact....We believe that once the SCOAP3 process has been put in place, it will point the way towards an open access publishing approach for science in general."
With Switzerland, the SCOAP3 membership now consists of 17 countries in Europe, Australasia and the Middle East and a growing number of U.S. libraries and library consortia who have collectively pledged 4.8 million Euros towards the SCOAP3 initiative, corresponding to 48% of the projected SCOAP3 budget envelope, with another 8% about to be pledged in the near future.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/11/2008 11:47:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.