SCOAP3 Extended for an additional 3 years
The Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3), has announced the extension of the initiative for 3 years, for a new and innovative phase, beginning in 2025.
Since 2014, the SCOAP3 initiative has funded almost 70,000 OA articles across 11 leading journals in particle physics.
The partnership is funded by the collective contributions of over 3,000 institutions from more than 45 countries, making research freely accessible worldwide at no costs and no administrative burden to authors, setting a global example for sustainable, effective and equitable OA.
In its fourth phase, from 2025 to 2027, SCOAP3 will include the Open Science Incentives Mechanism, which will reward publishers based on their adoption of open science practices. Publishers will further be incentivised to disclose efforts in sustainability, data privacy, financial transparency, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), which will be made publicly available on the SCOAP3 website.
SCOAP3 News: SCOAP3 Extended for a New and Innovative Phase (August 28, 2024)