Abstract: Unprecedented technological advancements have radically changed the way we communicate and, at the same time, are effectively transforming science into e-Science. In turn, this transformation calls for an evolution in scholarly communication. This review describes several innovations, spanning the last decades of scholarly communication in High Energy Physics: the first repositories, their interaction with peer-reviewed journals, a proposed model for Open Access publishing and a next-generation repository for the field. We hope that some of these innovations, which are deeply rooted in the highly-interconnected and world-wide flavour of the High-Energy Physics community can serve as an inspiration to other communities.
From the conclusion:
HEP has spearheaded (open) access to scientific information, with half a century of circulation of preprints and almost two decades of inception and adoption of repositories. The publishing and library landscapes in HEP are now in a new period of change, built on this tradition of successful, user-driven, innovations: the cross road of open access and peer-reviewed literature and the inception of a next-generation repository adapting the current technological advances to the research workflow of HEP scientists.
SCOAP3 is a unique experiment of “flipping” from Toll Access to Open Access all journals covering the literature of a given discipline....
INSPIRE, a new e-infrastructure for information retrieval in HEP is being designed and will soon be deployed. It aims to answer to the evolving needs of HEP scholars, deploying novel 16 text- and data-mining, as well as Web2.0, applications. This new e-infrastructure might provide inspiration to many other communities that are currently exploring ways to improve the dissemination, discovery and organization of research results, primarily focusing on author self-archiving....
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/07/2008 11:14:00 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.
