ACCORDO TRA
per SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics)
(annualità 2017- 2019)
ACCORDO TRA
1) L’Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (di seguito INFN) C.F. 84001850589, P.I. 044 30461006 con sede legale in xxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx, x. 00 – 00000 Xxxxxxxx (XX), in persona del Presidente p.t. Xxxx. Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
2) La Conferenza dei Rettori delle Università Italiane (di seguito CRUI) C.F 97476030586, con sede legale in Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, 00 - 00000 Xxxx, in persona del Presidente p.t., Prof. Ferruccio Resta.
La CRUI interviene sia in proprio, sia per conto delle Università aderenti - in virtù delle adesioni al progetto confermate dalle Istituzioni di seguito elencate e dalle quali la CRUI ha ricevuto specifico mandato - ai seguenti contratti:
- SPRINGER
- IOP
- SCIENCE DIRECT ELSEVIER
- APS (American Physical Society)
A) Per il contratto Springer con decorrenza 01/01/2015 – 31/12/2019 la CRUI interviene sia in proprio, sia per conto delle seguenti Università:
- Politecnico di Torino
- Milano Cattolica U.C.S. Cuore
- Politecnico di Milano
- SISSA Trieste
- Università del Salento
- Università degli Studi dell'Aquila
- Università di Bologna
- Università di Cagliari
- Università degli Studi di Ferrara
- Università degli Studi di Firenze
- Università degli Studi di Genova
- Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca
- Università degli Studi di Milano La Statale
- Università degli Studi di Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx XX
- Università di Padova
- Università di Pavia
- Università degli Studi di Perugia
- Università degli Studi di Pisa
- Sapienza Università di Roma
- Università degli Studi di Roma Tre
- Università degli Studi di Salerno
- Università degli Studi di Trento
- Università degli Studi di Trieste
- Università della Calabria
- Università degli Studi di Bari
- Università degli studi dell’Insubria
- Università di Torino
L'intervento di CRUI per conto delle suddette Università è limitato ai seguenti titoli pubblicati negli anni 2017, 2018, 2019 dall’Editore Springer ed inclusi nel contratto 2015-2019:
- European Physics Journal C;
- Journal of High Energy Physics
B) Per il contratto IOP con decorrenza 01/01/2015 – 31/12/2017 e per il contratto IOP con decorrenza 01/01/2018 - 31/12/2020 la CRUI interviene sia in proprio, sia per conto delle seguenti Università:
- Scuola Normale Superiore
- ENEA
- Politecnico di Milano
- SISSA Trieste
- Università del Salento
- Sincrotrone Trieste
- Università degli Studi dell'Aquila
- Università degli Studi di Brescia
- Università di Cagliari
- Università degli Studi di Catania
- Università degli Studi di Firenze
- Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca
- Università degli Studi di Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx XX
- Università di Padova
- Università degli Studi di Pisa
- Sapienza Università di Roma
- Università degli Studi di Trento
- Università degli Studi di Verona
- Politecnico di Torino (aderente solo al contratto IOP 01/01/2018 - 31/12/2020)
- Università degli Studi dell’Insubria
- Università degli Studi di Milano La Statale
L’intervento di CRUI per conto del Politecnico di Torino riguarda esclusivamente il contratto con decorrenza 01/01/2018 - 31/12/2020.
L'intervento di CRUI per conto delle suddette Università è limitato al seguente titolo pubblicato negli anni 2017, 2018, 2019 dall’Editore IOP ed incluso nei contratti 2015 – 2017 e 2018 – 2020 ;
- Chinese Physics C;
C) Per il contratto Elsevier Science Direct con decorrenza 01/01/2013 - 31/12/2017 e per il contratto Science Direct con decorrenza 01/01/2018 - 31/12/2022 la CRUI interviene sia in proprio, sia per conto delle seguenti Università:
- Politecnico di Torino
- Scuola Normale Superiore
- SISSA Trieste
- Milano Cattolica S. Cuore
- Università della Calabria
- Università degli Studi di Bari
- Università di Bologna
- Università di Cagliari
- Università degli Studi di Catania
- Università degli Studi di Ferrara
- Università degli Studi di Firenze
- Università degli Studi di Genova
- Università degli Studi di Milano La Statale
- Università di Modena e Reggio Xxxxxx
- Università degli Studi di Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx XX
- Università di Padova
- Università degli Studi di Pavia
- Università degli Studi di Pisa
- Sapienza Università di Roma
- Università degli Studi di Salerno
- Università degli Studi di Torino
- Università degli Studi di Trento
- Università degli Studi di Udine
L'intervento di CRUI per conto delle suddette Università è limitato ai seguenti titoli pubblicati negli anni 2017, 2018, 2019 dall’Editore Elsevier ed inclusi nei contratti 2013-
2017 e 2018 – 2022:
- Nuclear Physics B
- Physics Letters B
D) Per il contratto American Physical Society con decorrenza 01/01/2018 – 31/12/2018 la CRUI interviene sia in proprio, sia per conto delle seguenti Università:
- Università degli Studi di Bari
- Università di Cagliari
- Università della Calabria
- Università di Camerino
- Università degli Studi di Catania
- Elettra Sincrotrone
- ENEA
- Università degli Studi di Firenze
- Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
- INRIM
- Università degli Studi dell'Insubria
- Università degli Studi dell'Aquila
- Università degli Studi di Messina
- Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca
- Politecnico di Milano
- Università degli Studi di Pavia
- Università degli Studi di Perugia
- Università degli Studi di Pisa
- Scuola Normale Superiore
- Roma Campus Bio-Medico
- Sapienza Università di Roma
- Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata
- Università del Salento
- Politecnico di Torino
- Università degli Studi di Trento
- Università degli Studi di Trieste
- Università degli Studi di Udine
- Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
- Università degli Studi di Verona
- Università degli Studi di Salerno
E) Per il contratto American Physical Society con decorrenza 01/01/2019 – 31/12/2019 la CRUI interviene sia in proprio, sia per conto delle seguenti Università:
- Università degli Studi di Bari
- Università di Cagliari
- Università della Calabria
- Università di Camerino
- Università degli Studi di Catania
- Elettra Sincrotrone
- ENEA
- Università degli Studi di Firenze
- Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
- INRIM
- Università degli Studi dell’Insubria
- Università degli Studi dell’Aquila
- Università degli Studi di Messina
- Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca
- Politecnico di Milano
- Università di Pavia
- Università degli Studi di Perugia
- Università degli Studi di Pisa
- Scuola Normale Superiore
- Roma Campus Biomedico
- Sapienza Università di Roma
- Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata
- Università del Salento
- Università degli Studi di Salerno
- Politecnico di Torino
- Università degli Studi di Trento
- Università degli Studi di Trieste
- Università degli Studi di Udine
- Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
- Università degli Studi di Verona
L'intervento di CRUI per conto delle suddette Università è limitato ai seguenti titoli pubblicati nell’anno 2018 e 2019 dall’Editore American Physcal Society ed inclusi nei contratti 2018 e 2019:
- Physical Review C
- Physical Review D
- Physical Review Letters
Di seguito, altresì, denominate, congiuntamente Parti e disgiuntamente Parte.
Premesso che
a) L’INFN è Ente pubblico nazionale di ricerca che promuove, coordina ed effettua la ricerca scientifica nel campo della fisica nucleare, subnucleare, astroparticellare e delle interazioni fondamentali, nonché la ricerca e lo sviluppo tecnologico pertinenti alle attività in tali settori prevedendo forme di sinergia con altri enti di ricerca e il mondo dell’impresa;
b) L’INFN con la firma della Berlin declaration on Open Access to Scientific Knowledge e del Position statement sull’accesso aperto ai risultati della ricerca scientifica in Italia, aderisce ai principi dell’accesso pieno e aperto ai prodotti della ricerca finanziata con fondi pubblici;
c) l'art. 4 della legge 7 ottobre 2013, n.112 che ha convertito con modificazioni il decreto legge 8 agosto 2013, n. 91, Disposizioni urgenti per la tutela, la valorizzazione e il rilancio dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo prevede che “I soggetti pubblici preposti all'erogazione o alla gestione dei finanziamenti della ricerca scientifica adottano, nella loro autonomia, le misure necessarie per la promozione dell'accesso aperto ai risultati della ricerca finanziata per una quota pari o superiore al 50 per cento con fondi pubblici, quando
documentati in articoli pubblicati su periodici a carattere scientifico che abbiano almeno due uscite annue.” ;
d) l’Unione Europea ha espresso il proprio favore per l’open access ai risultati della ricerca scientifica, nel Model Grant Agreement del Programma Europeo Horizon 2020, dove richiede in via obbligatoria la pubblicazione Open Access dei risultati dei Progetti finanziati;
e) al fine di ridurre i costi di pubblicazione e di abbonamento alle riviste scientifiche, il CERN ha avviato una collaborazione scientifica internazionale tra Enti Pubblici di Ricerca e Università denominata SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics), successivamente formalizzata con la sottoscrizione di un Memorandum of Understanding MOU ,(All.1), la cui sottoscrizione è stata ratificata con i precedente Accordi CRUI – INFN, sottoscritti in data 22/12/2015, 17/11/2016 e 16/1/2016.
f) SCOAP3 si è posta l’obiettivo di garantire ai suoi Partners un risparmio di spesa nell’acquisto dei seguenti servizi, meglio descritti nel suddetto MOU:
• Accesso alle pubblicazioni in formato elettronico full text sia sul sito dell’editore, sia sul sito del CERN con codici API, OAP-PMH, sia con deposito presso il repository del partner, e pieno accesso ai metadata;
• pubblicazione sulle riviste oggetto dell’MOU in modalità Open Access senza costi aggiuntivi;
• riconoscimento agli autori in merito alla proprietà intellettuale delle pubblicazioni Open Access
• protezione delle pubblicazioni di cui al precedente punto tramite copyright CC- BY e protezione dei metadata tramite copyright CC0.
g) La suddetta collaborazione è stata avviata tra il CERN ed alcuni Enti Pubblici che hanno agito in qualità di rappresentanti di Enti Pubblici di Ricerca ed Università dei rispettivi Paesi di appartenenza.
h) In data 19/12/2013 l’INFN ha formalizzato la partecipazione in SCOAP3 tramite la sottoscrizione del MOU di cui al precedente punto e) agendo in qualità di Rappresentante (Representative) per l’Italia degli Enti Pubblici e Università italiani potenzialmente interessati alla partecipazione alla detta collaborazione (cd. Partners).
i) INFN e CERN hanno, altresì, sottoscritto un Addendum al MOU successivamente sostituito con la stipula di un nuovo Addendum in data 26 maggio 2015 contenente l’elenco di Enti e Università italiani potenzialmente interessati all’adesione a SCOAP3, nonché degli importi dei contributi annuali per gli anni 2014, 2015, 2016 dovuti dai medesimi alla Collaborazione scientifica in caso di loro adesione.
j) I Rappresentanti dei Partners di SCOAP3, tra cui l’INFN, hanno concordato che il CERN avviasse procedure di gara per l’individuazione di editori cui aggiudicare contratti per servizi triennali di peer-review, open access e altri servizi di pubblicazione.
k) In base all’art. 4 del MOU i servizi prestati dagli editori saranno pagati tramite un Fondo costituito con i contributi annuali dei Partners a SCOAP3.
l) Il CERN ha bandito una gara per il triennio contrattuale 2017-2019 all’esito della quale ha stipulato con gli editori aggiudicatari Elsevier, Hindawi, Xxxxxxxxxxxx University, Oxford University Press, Springer, IOP e, limitatamente al biennio 2018-2019, American Physical Society, contratti che prevedono che questi ultimi compenseranno i costi annuali degli abbonamenti a riviste eventualmente in essere tra essi e i Partners di SCOAP3 con l’importo corrispondente al contributo di questi ultimi a SCOAP3, che sarà versato loro dal CERN a titolo di corrispettivo dei servizi acquistati (c.d. reduction);
m) l’INFN e il CERN, in data 12 febbraio 2020, hanno sottoscritto un ulteriore Addendum (All.2) al menzionato MoU contenente l’elenco degli Enti e delle Università interessati all’adesione di SCOAP 3, nonché degli importi dei contributi annuali per gli anni 2017, 2018, 2019 dovuti dai medesimi alla Collaborazione scientifica in caso di loro adesione;
n) Gli Enti Pubblici e le Università in epigrafe volendo beneficiare dei vantaggi connessi alla partecipazione a SCOAP3 per i contratti Elsevier Science Direct, Springer, IOP e APS, per le annualità specificate in epigrafe, intendono aderirvi avendo conferito alla CRUI il mandato di sottoscrivere il presente Accordo;
Tanto premesso si conviene e si stipula quanto segue.
Articolo 1
(Valore delle premesse e degli altri documenti)
Le premesse e i documenti allegati al presente Accordo ne costituiscono parte integrante e sostanziale.
Articolo 2 (Ratifica)
Con la firma del presente Accordo la CRUI, sia in proprio che per conto degli Enti Pubblici e delle Università che ne hanno rilasciato mandato, ratifica, ai sensi dell’art 1399 c.c., l’operato dell’INFN quale Rappresentante nell’ambito della Collaborazione Scientifica SCOAP3. In tal modo dà per rato e valido ogni atto comunque denominato sottoscritto dall’INFN fino alla data di sottoscrizione del presente Accordo, nonché gli atti esecutivi dei medesimi e comunque conseguenti quali i contratti stipulati dal CERN ed editori selezionati come in premessa, in relazione alla detta Collaborazione, accettandone in via retroattiva gli effetti e riconoscendo il ruolo dell’INFN nella detta Collaborazione.
Articolo 3 (Effetti della ratifica)
Tramite la ratifica di cui all’art. 2, CRUI e le Istituzioni in epigrafe assumono la qualità di Partners della Collaborazione scientifica Scoap3 e, di conseguenza, gli obblighi e i diritti da essa derivanti, come definiti nel sopra menzionato MOU, e nei relativi Addenda, nonché nei contratti stipulati dal CERN con gli editori selezionati.
I diritti e doveri derivanti dalla collaborazione, riportati negli articoli 4 e 5 del MOU sono compendiati come di seguito: pagamenti annuali nel fondo di SCOAP3 con importi riportati nell’All.1 (art. 4.1); tempistica dei pagamenti (art. 4.2); calcolo degli importi per periodi contrattuali successivi al primo (art. 4.3); revisione della contabilità di SCOAP3 da parte di un revisore indipendente selezionato dal Governing Council (art. 4.4); mediazione del CERN per il calcolo delle reductions contrattuali, assistenza del CERN per l’osservanza dell’applicazione delle reductions, partecipazione al Forum di SCOAP3, eleggibilità nell’Executive Committee, accesso agli articoli dalla piattaforma SCOAP3 anche con modalità API (art. 5). In particolare, a titolo di corrispettivo dei servizi dei quali beneficeranno dagli editori di cui in premessa, i Partners si impegnano ad effettuare direttamente i pagamenti annuali nel Fondo di Scoap3, come disciplinati dagli art. 4 e 5 del MoU.
CRUI assume l’impegno, fino al 31 dicembre 2019, di raccogliere dalle suddette Università e dagli Enti Pubblici menzionati in epigrafe, i contributi dagli stessi dovuti a SCOAP3 in base all’Addendum all'MOU (All.2) e di effettuarne il versamento al relativo Fondo tramite il seguente codice IBAN/BICSWIFT del conto corrente CERN dedicato (IBAN: XX0000000000X00000000, BIC: XXXXXXXX00X).
Articolo 4
(Procura speciale all’ INFN e Recesso)
I suddetti Partners conferiscono procura speciale all’INFN affinché questo li rappresenti nell’ambito di Scoap3 e compia in nome e per conto degli stessi tutti gli atti necessari o utili alla realizzazione degli scopi oggetto di SCOAP3 dando sin da ora promessa di rato e valido dei medesimi.
E’ fatta salva la possibilità di recedere alla fine di ogni ciclo di gara (MOU, clause 8.3) e, in caso di circostanze straordinarie, dando dodici mesi di preavviso per iscritto al Consiglio Direttivo di Scoap3 (MOU, clause 8.4).
Articolo 5 (Norme finali)
Per quanto non espressamente disciplinato dal presente Accordo, le Parti rinviano alle previsioni del codice civile.
Allegati:
- (All. 1) Memorandum of Understanding tra INFN e CERN;
- (All.2) Addendum al Memorandum of Understanding sottoscritto in data 12 febbraio 2020.
Digitally signed by XXXXXXX XXXXXXX X=IT
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Firmato digitalmente da: FERRUCCIO RESTA Data: 28/09/2020 16:19:59
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Il presente documento è firmato digitalmente ai sensi del Codice dell'Amministrazione Digitale e norme connesse.
Memorandum of Understanding for the establishment and operation of
the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (hereinafter SCOAP3)1
(hereinafter the “MoU”)
between
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (“CERN”), an
Intergovernmental Organization with its seat at Geneva, Switzerland, as the Host Organization of SCOAP3 and SCOAP3 Partner, represented by its Director-General, Xxxx-Xxxxxx Xxxxx,
on the one hand
and
The Representatives of the SCOAP3 Partners (the “Representatives”)
(as listed in Annex 1 to the MoU),
on the other hand
hereinafter individually referred to as “Party” and collectively as “Parties”.
Preamble
(a) In line with its mission of “[...] sponsoring of international co-operation in nuclear research, including co-operation outside the Laboratories [which] may include in particular [...] the dissemination of information”, and in accordance with the principle of openness “[...] the results of its experimental and theoretical work shall be published or otherwise made generally available”, both enshrined in its Convention2, CERN has initiated a process to pursue open access to peer-reviewed literature in the Field. First, broad consultation in 2005 and 2006 between researchers, publishers and funding agencies identified author fees as a barrier to open access and suggested that open access to existing high quality peer-reviewed journals in the Field should be introduced by a redirection of subscription fees. In 2007, an international working party delivered a report (in Annex 8) describing a
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possible business model for a future consortium to be called SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) to achieve this redirection, inspired by the collaborative models that the HEP community has used for decades to design, build, operate and exploit global research infrastructures. From 2007 to 2010, libraries and funding agencies from 25 countries signed Expressions of Interest to support the future SCOAP3 consortium (template in Annex 7). In 2011, representatives of these stakeholders agreed that CERN should start a formal procurement process for peer-review, open access and other publication services, pending new commitments to join SCOAP3. A Steering Committee was formed to guide this process.
(b) In its capacity as Host Organization and acting for the benefit of SCOAP3, CERN has issued the invitation to tender IT-3827/GS for the award of contracts to publishers, for the provision of peer-review, open access and other publication services for the benefit of SCOAP3 (technical specification in Annex 5). The completion of the tendering process based on the said invitation to tender resulted in the identification of the publishers listed in Annex 3 for a potential collaboration with SCOAP3 for a first tendering cycle.
(c) The SCOAP3 operation is intended as a continuing going concern for the provision of open access to the literature of the Field. The contracts awarded to publishers for the first tendering cycle will cover the three- year period from 1 January 2014 until 31 December 2016 (form of contract with Publishers in Annex 4). It is intended to issue a new invitation to tender during that period for the award of contracts to publishers for a second tendering cycle, and then regularly afterwards.
(d) SCOAP3 Partners (as listed in Annex 2), represented in the MoU by the Representatives, will make annual payments into the SCOAP3 Fund which will be used to pay the Publishers. SCOAP3 Partners will recover monies through reductions in the subscription and licensing fees of HEP journals that publish articles falling within the framework of SCOAP3, as provided in the contracts with the Publishers.
(e) Capitalized terms shall have the meaning assigned to them hereunder:
- “Addendum” means the document specific and confidential to each Representative that defines the details of the participation in SCOAP3 of the SCOAP3 Partners listed within it;
- “Field” means the field of high-energy physics;
- “HEP” means high-energy physics, also called particle physics;
- “Host Organization” means CERN as the legal entity which leverages its resources to build and operate the SCOAP3 infrastructure, including but not limited to: financial, legal and administrative procedures; implementation and maintenance of the SCOAP3 Repository; the management of the contracts with the Publishers;
- “Major Amendment” means an amendment that affects the rights and/or obligations of the Parties;
- “MoU” means this Memorandum of Understanding, including its Annexes and Addenda, each of which forms an integral part of it;
- “Publishers” means the publishers to whom a contract has been awarded for the provision of the Services;
- “Reconciliation Facility” means the secure online database provided by CERN which records names of SCOAP3 Partners and enables Representatives and Publishers to upload details of subscription reductions;
- “Repository” means the digital library operated by CERN where Publishers will timely deposit all articles published in the SCOAP3 framework, for further redistribution, in addition to publishing them Open Access on their own platform;
- “Representative(s)” means the entity(ies) signing the MoU for the benefit of SCOAP3 Partners in its (their) country;
- “SCOAP3” means the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics, established by the MoU;
- “SCOAP3 Fund” means a common fund set up as a dedicated account at CERN in order to pay for the Services;
- “SCOAP3 Partners” means CERN as well as the funding agencies, research institutions, libraries and library consortia contributing funds to SCOAP3 and hereby represented by the Representatives, all as named in the corresponding Addenda;
- “Services” means the peer-review, open access and other publications services provided by the Publishers.
(f) The Parties have now agreed to sign the MoU in order to establish SCOAP3, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics.
The Parties agree as follows:
Clause 1: Parties
The Parties to the MoU shall be (i) CERN as the Host Organization of SCOAP3 and a SCOAP3 Partner (ii) the Representatives of the SCOAP3 Partners.
Clause 2: The MoU and its purpose
2.1 The MoU establishes SCOAP3 and defines the rights and responsibilities of the Parties in its operation.
2.2 The priority between the Annexes shall be in decreasing order, starting from Annex 1.
Annex 1: The Parties to the MoU Annex 2: The SCOAP3 Partners
Annex 3: List of Publishers and Journals Annex 4: Form of Contract with Publishers Annex 5: Technical specification
Annex 6: Expanded list of share of HEP literature by country, calculated in accordance with the method set out in Annex 8
Annex 7: Template Expression of Interest Annex 8: SCOAP3 Working Party Report
2.3 The details of the participation of the SCOAP3 Partners in SCOAP3, in particular the amounts payable into the SCOAP3 Fund, the expected reductions agreed with the Publishers, and the contact persons, shall be set out in the Addenda.
2.4 Except for Clause 9, the MoU is not legally binding, but the Parties recognize that the long term success of SCOAP3 depends on all Parties adhering to the provisions of the MoU and acknowledge the commitments taken by and towards the Publishers under the contracts concluded by CERN for the benefit of SCOAP3.
Clause 3: SCOAP3 Governance
The Parties herewith formally establish the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3). The governance of SCOAP3 shall consist of the following entities, in accordance with their respective composition, terms of reference and procedure as defined below, and without prejudice to the mechanism defined in Clause 7.3:
A. the SCOAP3 Forum,
B. the SCOAP3 Governing Council,
C. the SCOAP3 Executive Committee, and
D. the SCOAP3 Consortium Manager. The official language of SCOAP3 shall be English.
A. The SCOAP3 Forum
i. Composition
The SCOAP3 Forum:
- shall comprise representatives of all the SCOAP3 Partners who contribute to the SCOAP3 Fund pursuant to Clause 4;
- may invite observers such as libraries, library consortia, research institutions and funding agencies that are considering joining SCOAP3 as well as publishers, to attend all or parts of its meetings.
ii. Terms of reference
The SCOAP3 Forum:
- shall hear about and debate the progress of SCOAP3 and discuss possible future strategies and developments;
- may propose strategies and policies to the SCOAP3 Governing Council;
- may propose any other matters for consideration to the SCOAP3 Governing Council and the SCOAP3 Executive Committee.
iii. Procedure The SCOAP3 Forum:
- shall meet at least once a year at CERN and may hold additional meetings in other geographical regions of the SCOAP3 membership;
- shall allow remote participation in its meetings;
- shall not require a quorum in its meetings;
- shall be convened and chaired by one of its members, who shall be appointed Chairperson for three years by the SCOAP3 Governing Council;
- shall be convened and chaired for its first meeting, before the start of the SCOAP3 operations, by the CERN Director-General or by a person to whom he/she has delegated this task;
- shall make the minutes of all of its meetings publicly available.
B. The SCOAP3 Governing Council
i. Composition The SCOAP3 Governing Council:
- shall comprise a maximum of 45 members. CERN as the Host Organization of SCOAP3 shall have one seat. The remaining seats shall be allocated to countries represented by at least one SCOAP3 Partner that has settled its contribution to the SCOAP3 Fund pursuant to Clause 4. The distribution of seats shall be based on each country’s percentage contribution to the SCOAP3 Fund provided for in Clause 4, as follows3:
Percentage: Number of seat(s):
>10% 4
5%-10% 2
0.5%-5% 1
<0.5% 5 seats shall be distributed annually to 5 countries in rotation, with seats being allocated in the order of their accession to the MoU.
- may decide to add additional seats for international or non-profit entities wishing to make a contribution to SCOAP3.
ii. Terms of reference The SCOAP3 Governing Council:
- shall be the decision-making body of SCOAP3 and shall as such be responsible for its overall governance;
- shall review and debate the progress of SCOAP3 and discuss and decide on possible future strategies and developments, and receive proposals by the SCOAP3 Forum concerning strategies, policies and other matters;
- shall oversee the operation of SCOAP3 and shall delegate the day to day operation of SCOAP3 to the SCOAP3 Executive Committee;
- in its financial oversight capacity, shall (i) approve the annual income budget, pursuant to Clause 4, (ii) approve possible additional
3The Representatives of each country that is entitled to be represented in the SCOAP3 Governing Council shall select the members representing their country in accordance with their own rules.
expenditure other than expenditure in the execution of the contracts with the Publishers, (iii) approve the annual accounts, (iv) decide on and approve the use of any yearly positive balance within the framework of SCOAP3, (v) determine the strategy for each subsequent tendering cycle, and (vi) approve the expected contributions per country to the SCOAP3 Fund for each subsequent tendering cycle;
- shall define and adopt its own terms of procedure, laying down the rules for its own functioning;
- shall appoint the members of the SCOAP3 Executive Committee;
- shall appoint the chairperson of the SCOAP3 Forum;
- shall delegate to the SCOAP3 Executive Committee such matters as outreach strategy, relations with publishers, relations with prospective partners;
- may decide to appoint any additional committees or working groups as deemed necessary, and shall in particular appoint an audit committee;
- shall, together with CERN, agree on amendments to the main body of the MoU for signature by the Parties;
- shall approve the compensation proposed by the SCOAP3 Executive Committee in the event of a withdrawal from SCOAP3 as set out in Clause 8.4;
- shall engage in dispute resolution in accordance with Clause 9.1;
- shall inform the other SCOAP3 entities of its decisions in a timely manner;
- may decide to dissolve SCOAP3, after broad consultation.
iii. Procedure
The SCOAP3 Governing Council:
- shall hold its sessions at CERN, and shall strive to facilitate participation of its members irrespective of their geographical location;
- shall meet at least once a year for an ordinary session;
- may be convened in extraordinary session by its Chairperson and on the request of 2/3 of its members;
- shall grant one vote to each member;
- shall have a quorum of 50%+1 members for decisions that must be taken by simple majority, and a quorum of 2/3 of members for decisions that must be taken by a 2/3 majority. In addition, at least one member of each of the geographical regions represented in the SCOAP3 Governing Council must be present to constitute a quorum of the SCOAP3 Governing Council. Those geographical regions are: (i) the Americas, (ii) Europe, Africa and Middle East and (iii) Asia and the Pacific;
- shall take decisions by simple majority of members, except for the following decisions that shall be taken by a 2/3 majority of members:
(i) approval of the annual budget of income, (ii) approval of the expected contributions per country to the SCOAP3 Fund for each subsequent tendering cycle, (iii) approval of amendments to the main body of the MoU, (iv) decision to add additional seats for international or non-profit entities wishing to make a contribution to SCOAP3 and
(v) dissolution of SCOAP3;
- shall be convened and chaired by one of its members, who shall be elected as Chairperson for three years;
- the first SCOAP3 Governing Council meeting shall be convened and chaired by the CERN Director-General or by a person to whom he/she has delegated this task. This meeting shall take place after signature of the MoU by Representatives from countries representing in aggregate a financial contribution above 50% of the SCOAP3 yearly budget, and before signature of the contracts between CERN and the Publishers.
C. The SCOAP3 Executive Committee
i. Composition The SCOAP3 Executive Committee:
- shall comprise (i) 4 to 6 members from among the SCOAP3 Partners, appointed by the SCOAP3 Governing Council that shall strive to appoint at least one member of each geographical region (as set out in Clause 3.B.iii); these members shall act in the overarching interest of SCOAP3, and (ii) 1 member appointed by CERN as the Host Organization of SCOAP3.
ii. Terms of reference
The SCOAP3 Executive Committee:
- shall regularly report to the SCOAP3 Governing Council;
- shall oversee the day to day operation of SCOAP3 on behalf of the SCOAP3 Governing Council;
- shall provide advice and guidance to the SCOAP3 Consortium Manager as the need arises and oversee the execution of his/her duties;
- shall decide or make recommendations on such matters as outreach strategy, relations with publishers, relations with prospective partners;
- shall make proposals to the SCOAP3 Governing Council for the use of any yearly positive balance within the framework of SCOAP3;
- shall submit proposals to the SCOAP3 Governing Council concerning compensation in the event of a withdrawal from SCOAP3 as set out in Clause 9.4;
- shall engage in dispute resolution in accordance with Clause 9.1.
iii. Procedure
The SCOAP3 Executive Committee:
- shall meet at least once a month;
- shall be convened and chaired by one of its members, who shall be elected as Chairperson for one year;
- its first meeting shall be convened and chaired by its member appointed by CERN;
- shall strive to take decisions by consensus4;
- shall allow remote participation in its meetings.
D. The SCOAP3 Consortium Manager
CERN shall appoint a SCOAP3 Consortium Manager, who shall be a CERN staff member.
The SCOAP3 Consortium Manager shall provide regular reports to the SCOAP3 Executive Committee and shall under its oversight:
- ensure the day-to-day operation of SCOAP3, including but not limited to:
o management of the SCOAP3 contracts between CERN and the Publishers, in particular the timely and correct execution by the latter of all deliverables;
4 Consensus is defined as « lack of sustained opposition ».
o management of the SCOAP3 Repository and other services to the SCOAP3 Partners;
o management of the SCOAP3 cash flow, including ensuring timely payments by the SCOAP3 Partners and timely payments to the Publishers;
o management of the SCOAP3 partnership;
o management of the SCOAP3 Fund;
o representation of SCOAP3 to relevant external parties;
- support and organize meetings of the SCOAP3 Governing Council and SCOAP3 Forum;
- bring issues to the SCOAP3 Executive Committee for deliberation and decision as needed;
- implement the decisions of the SCOAP3 Governing Council and the SCOAP3 Executive Committee;
- ensure that the information contained in the Addenda to the MoU is kept up-to-date, and review that information in time for the meetings of the SCOAP3 Governing Council.
Clause 4: Finances
4.1 The SCOAP3 Partners shall make an annual payment into the SCOAP3 Fund to cover their share of the agreed payments to the Publishers. The amounts due shall be specified in the Addenda.
4.2 The first tendering cycle covers the period starting on 1 January 2014 and ending on 31 December 2016. The amounts of payments for the first tendering cycle are calculated according to the method described in Annex 8, based on the share of HEP literature for all countries active in the Field as listed in Annex 6.
4.3 The amounts of payments for each subsequent tendering cycle shall be decided by the SCOAP3 Governing Council, taking into account the volume of articles published in the SCOAP3 framework over a specified two-year reference period (e.g. contribution for 2017-2019 calculated from SCOAP3 articles in 2014+2015). The SCOAP3 Governing Council may appoint a committee to this calculation task.
4.4 All SCOAP3 Fund operations shall be reviewed annually by an independent audit committee appointed by the SCOAP3 Governing Council, in accordance with CERN financial rules5.
5 Available at xxxx://xxxxxxx.xxx.xxxx.xx/xxxxxxx/xx/XX/XXXX%00Xxxxxxxxx%00Xxxxx%000000.xxx
Clause 5: Rights of the SCOAP3 Partners
In consideration for their contribution to the SCOAP3 Fund, the SCOAP3 Partners shall be entitled to:
- access to the Reconciliation Facility and to mediation by CERN with the Publishers in connection with reduction of subscriptions;
- assistance with the enforcement of subscription reductions as captured in the Addenda;
- participation in the SCOAP3 Forum, subject to Clause 3.A.i;
- representation in the SCOAP3 Governing Council, subject to Clause 3.B.i;
- eligibility for appointment to the SCOAP3 Executive Committee, subject to Clause 3.C.i;
- push/pull from the SCOAP3 Repository of articles by authors of a given institution into the SCOAP3 Partner’s own repository, and/or specific API access.
Clause 6: Use of resources
6.1 CERN shall place, sign and manage the contracts for the provision of the Services, charged to the SCOAP3 Fund, with the Publishers in accordance with CERN Financial Rules. A list of the Publishers and journals providing the Services is set out in Annex 3.
6.2 Any yearly positive balance shall remain in the SCOAP3 Fund and shall be used for activities within the framework of SCOAP3, as approved by the SCOAP3 Governing Council.
6.3 In case of discontinuation of SCOAP3, the funds remaining in the SCOAP3 Fund will be used to pay all liabilities incurred by the operation of SCOAP3. Any monies that may then remain in the SCOAP3 Fund will be returned to the SCOAP3 Partners in proportion to their contribution.
Clause 7: Role of CERN as Host Organization
7.1 As the Host Organization of SCOAP3, CERN shall ensure its day-to-day operation, through the SCOAP3 Consortium Manager and its support services, including in particular its Finance and Procurement Department.
7.2 To this end, CERN shall contribute to SCOAP3 the costs of financial, personnel and other resources incurred by it in its hosting activities, over and above its contribution as a SCOAP3 Partner.
7.3 As the sole contract party, in its own name, to the contracts with the Publishers, CERN is exclusively liable for the proper execution of its contractual commitments to the Publishers, and more generally for compliance of SCOAP3 transactions with CERN Financial Rules. Therefore, any action, including any decision, by a SCOAP3 entity that in the view of CERN’s representative in that entity, may have an adverse impact on the execution of its contracts with the Publishers or lead to financial or legal exposure, is subject to CERN’s agreement. For the same reason, CERN is entitled to terminate the contracts with the Publishers, but only after having informed the SCOAP3 Executive Committee and the SCOAP3 Governing Council of its intention and motivation to terminate, and, where feasible under the circumstances, after consultation with the SCOAP3 Executive Committee and the SCOAP3 Governing Council.
Clause 8: Duration
8.1 The MoU shall become effective upon signature by the first Party to sign after CERN. Without prejudice to Clauses 8.3 and 8.4, it shall remain in force for as long as necessary to give effect to its provisions.
8.2 Any entity that wishes to join SCOAP3 after the conclusion of the MoU shall arrange for signature of the MoU and a new Addendum defining the details of its participation in SCOAP3.
8.3 CERN as Host Organization and any SCOAP3 Partner may withdraw from SCOAP3 at the end of each tendering cycle by giving notice in writing to the SCOAP3 Governing Council at the latest four (4) weeks after notification by the SCOAPS Governing Council of its decision to start a subsequent tendering cycle.
8.4 In case of extraordinary circumstances, a SCOAP3 Partner may withdraw from SCOAP3 by giving not less than twelve (12) months notice in writing to the SCOAP3 Governing Council. The withdrawing SCOAP3 Partner shall agree with the SCOAP3 Executive Committee on a reasonable compensation to SCOAP3, which the SCOAP3 Executive Committee shall submit to the SCOAP3 Governing Council for approval.
Clause 9: Disputes
9.1 The primary mechanism for resolution of any disputes related to the subject matter of the MoU, including but not limited to disputes of financial nature, shall be discussion between the SCOAP3 Executive Committee and the party(ies) concerned. Should this not prove fruitful, the dispute shall be resolved by arbitration by the Chairperson of the SCOAP3 Governing Council.
9.2 It is understood and agreed, however, that the liability of each party to the MoU shall in no event exceed an amount equivalent to the amount of its annual payment to the SCOAP3 Fund, which was agreed upon before the dispute arose.
9.3 This provision shall survive termination of the MoU, howsoever caused.
Clause 10: Major amendments
Major Amendments to the main body of the MoU agreed upon by CERN and the SCOAPS Governing Council pursuant to Clause 3.B.ii shall be subject to signature by the Parties.
Clause 11: Implementation of the MoU
11.1 For the avoidance of doubt, it is understood that the SCOAP3 Partners that are represented by the Representatives shall benefit from all rights set out in the MoU, and in particular in Clause 5.
11.2 An Addendum to the MoU will include a list of SCOAP3 Partners represented by each Representative.
Annex 1 to the Memorandum of Understanding for the establishment and operation of SCOAP3
The Parties to the MoU
Country | SCOAP3 Parties |
Australia | Xxxxxxxx University |
Australia | Queensland University of Technology |
Australia | University of Melbourne |
Australia | University of Western Australia |
Austria | Die Oesterreichische Bibliothekenverbund und Service GmbH |
Belgium | The Belgian Delegation |
Canada | The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) |
CERN | CERN Library |
China | The National Science and Technology Library |
Czech Republic | The National Library of Technology |
Denmark | Danish Agency For Culture |
Finland | The National Library of Finland |
France | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
Germany | Xxx Xxxxxx Digital Library |
Germany | Technische Informationsbibliothek |
Germany | HGF - Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY |
Greece | Hellenic Academic Libraries – Link (HEAL – Link) |
Hong-Kong | Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC) |
Hungary | The Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) |
Iceland | National and University Library of Iceland |
Xxxxxx | XXXXXX/MACHBA |
Italy | Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare (INFN) |
Japan | The National Institute of Informatics (NII) |
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Cuba, DPRK, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Mongolia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam | Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) |
Korea | Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) |
Mexico | CONACYT-CONRICYT |
Netherlands | SURFmarket, on behalf of Universiteitsbibliotheken en de Koninklijke Bibliotheek and National Instituut voor Subatomaire Fysica |
Norway | CRIStin |
Poland | ICM University of Warsaw |
Country | SCOAP3 Parties |
Portugal | Fundação Para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (FCT/FCCN) |
Slovak Republic | Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic |
South Africa | South African National Library and Information Consortium (SANLiC) |
Spain | Consorcio de Bibliotecas Universitarias de Andalucia (CBUA) |
Spain | Consorcio de Bibliotecas Universitarias de Castilla y Xxxx (BUCLE) |
Spain | Consorcio de Bibliotecas Universitarias de Galicia (BUGalicia) |
Spain | Consortium Canarias-Levante |
Spain | Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambientales y Tecnologicas (CIEMAT) |
Spain | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
Spain | Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya (CSUC) |
Spain | Grupo 9 de Universidades |
Spain | Consorcio Madroño |
Sweden | National Library of Sweden |
Switzerland | Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries |
Taiwan | Academia Sinica of Taiwan |
Turkey | Turkish Academic Network and Information Center |
United Kingdom | JISC Collections |
United States | California Digital Library |
United States | Lyrasis |
This list is updated as Parties accede to the MoU
Annex 2 to the Memorandum of Understanding for the establishment and operation of SCOAP3
The SCOAP3 Partners
Country | SCOAP3 Partners |
Australia | Xxxxxxxx University |
Australia | Queensland University of Technology |
Australia | University of Melbourne |
Australia | University of Western Australia |
Austria | Die Oesterreichische Bibliothekenverbund und Service |
Austria | Bundesforschungs- und Ausbildungszentrum für Wald, Naturgefahren und Landschaft |
Austria | Donauuniversität Krems |
Austria | Fachhochschule Campus Wien |
Austria | Fachhochschule Joanneum |
Austria | Fachhochschule Krems |
Austria | Fachhochschule Kärnten |
Austria | Fachhochschule Oberösterreich |
Austria | Fachhochschule St. Pölten |
Austria | Fachhochschule Vorarlberg |
Austria | Fachhochschule Wiener Neustadt |
Austria | Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pathologie (IMP) |
Austria | Institut für Höhere Studien (IHS) |
Austria | Institute of Science and Technology Austria (I.S.T.) |
Austria | International Institute of Applied System Analysis (IIASA) |
Austria | Medizinische Universität Graz |
Austria | Medizinische Universität Wien |
Austria | Montanuniversität Leoben |
Austria | Paracelsus Medizinische Privatuniversität Salzburg |
Austria | Technische Universität Graz |
Austria | Technische Universität Wien |
Austria | Universität Graz |
Austria | Universität Klagenfurt |
Austria | Universität Linz |
Austria | Universität Salzburg |
Austria | Universität Wien |
Austria | Universität für Bodenkultur Wien |
Austria | Universitäts und Landesbibliothek Tirol |
Austria | Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien |
Austria | Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek |
Austria | Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien |
Belgium | The Belgian Delegation |
Country | SCOAP3 Partners |
Belgium | Consortium ELEKTRON |
Belgium | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
Belgium | Université Catholique de Louvain |
Belgium | Université de Liège |
Belgium | Université de Mons |
Belgium | Université de Namur (formerly Facultés Notre Dame de la Paix) |
Belgium | Université Libre de Bruxelles |
Belgium | Universiteit Antwerpen |
Belgium | Universiteit Gent |
Belgium | Vrije Universiteit Brussels |
Canada | The Canadian Research Knowledge Network |
Canada | Consortium CRKN |
Canada | Dalhousie University |
Canada | McGill University |
Canada | McMaster University |
Canada | Queen's University |
Canada | Xxxxx Xxxxxx University |
Canada | University of Alberta |
Canada | University of British Columbia |
Canada | University of Manitoba |
Canada | University of Regina |
Canada | University of Saskatchewan |
Canada | University of Toronto |
Canada | University of Victoria |
Canada | University of Waterloo |
Canada | Université Laval |
Canada | Université de Montréal |
Canada | Université de Sherbrooke |
Canada | Western University |
Canada | York University |
CERN | CERN Library |
China (PRC) | The National Science and Technology Library |
China (PRC) | China Academy of Agricultural Sciences |
China (PRC) | China Geological Library |
China (PRC) | China Meteorological Administration |
China (PRC) | Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences |
China (PRC) | Chinese Academy of Meidical Sciences |
China (PRC) | DRAA SLCC National Consortium |
China (PRC) | DRAA SLCC Regional Consortium |
China (PRC) | Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China |
Country | SCOAP3 Partners |
China (PRC) | State Intellectual Property Office of P.R.C |
Czech Republic | The National Library of Technology |
Czech Republic | Czech Springer Consortium |
Czech Republic | Ceské vysoké ucení technické v Praze |
Czech Republic | Consortium CZ.1.05/3.2.00/12.0228 - Natura: vedecké informacní zdroje prírodních ved |
Czech Republic | Fyzikální ústav AV CR, v.v.i. |
Czech Republic | Národní technická knihovna |
Czech Republic | Slezská univerzita v Opave |
Czech Republic | Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Matematicko-fyzikální fakulta |
Czech Republic | Univerzita Pardubice |
Czech Republic | Vysoká skola chemicko-technologická v Praze |
Czech Republic | Ústav jaderné fyziky AV CR, v.v.i. |
Czech Republic | Ústav organické chemie a biochemie AV CR, v.v.i. |
Czech Republic | Ústav prístrojové techniky AV CR, v.v.i. |
Czech Republic | Ústav termomechaniky AV CR, v.v.i. |
Denmark | Danish Agency For Culture |
Denmark | Consortium DEFF |
Finland | The National Library of Finland |
Finland | FinElib consortium |
Finland | Aalto University |
Finland | Jyväskylä University |
Finland | University of Oulu |
Finland | Lappeenranta University of Technology |
Finland | Tampere University of Technology |
Finland | Helsinki University |
Finland | Turku University |
France | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
France | CEA |
France | CNAM (Conservatoire national des arts et métiers) |
France | CNRS/IAS (Institut Astrophysique de Paris) |
France | Consortium CNRS |
France | Joint ILL-ESRF Library |
France | OBSPM (Observatoire de Paris-Meudon) |
France | Paris 6 - UPMC (SCD) |
France | Université Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxx 1 (SCD) |
France | Université Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx Tours (SCD) |
France | Université Grenoble 1 |
France | Université Lille 1 Sciences et Technologies (SCD) |
France | Université Xxxx Xxxxxxxx - Toulouse 3 (SCD) |
France | Université de Bordeaux 1 (SCD) |
Country | SCOAP3 Partners |
France | Université de Nantes |
France | Université de Poitiers (SCD) |
France | Université de Strasbourg (SCD) |
France | École Polytechnique Palaiseau (RNBM) |
Germany | Xxx Xxxxxx Digital Library |
Germany | Technische Informationsbibliothek |
Germany | Aachen - RWTH (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule) Aachen - Hochschulbibliothek |
Germany | Aachen - RWTH (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule) Aachen - Physikbibliothek |
Germany | Berlin HU - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Universitätsbibliothek |
Germany | Bielefeld - Universität Bielefeld - Universitätsbibliothek |
Germany | Bochum - Ruhr-Universität - Universitätsbibliothek |
Germany | Bonn - Rheinische Xxxxxxxxx-Xxxxxxxx-Universität - Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek |
Germany | Bremen - Xxxxxx- und Universitätsbibliothek |
Germany | Darmstadt - Technische Universität - Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek |
Germany | Dortmund - Technische Universität - Universitätsbibliothek |
Germany | Dresden - SLUB (Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Xxxxxx- und Universitätsbibliothek) |
Germany | Erlangen-Nürnberg - FAU (Xxxxxxxxx-Xxxxxxxxx-Universität) - Universitätsbibliothek |
Germany | Frankfurt am Main - Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main - Universitätsbibliothek Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxx |
Germany | Freiburg - Xxxxxx-Xxxxxxx-Universität - Universitätsbibliothek |
Germany | Gießen - Justus-Liebig-Universität - Universitätsbibliothek |
Germany | Göttingen - Niedersächsische Xxxxxx- und Universitätsbibliothek |
Germany | Hamburg - MIN-Fakultät - Fachbereich Physik |
Germany | Hamburg SUB - Xxxxxx- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Xxxx xxx Xxxxxxxxx |
Germany | Hannover - Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) Hannover |
Germany | HeBis Consortium - all libraries - alle Bibliotheken |
Germany | Heidelberg - Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx-Universität - Universitätsbibliothek |
Germany | Karlsruhe KIT - Karlsruher Institut für Technologie - KIT- |
Country | SCOAP3 Partners |
Bibliothek | |
Germany | Mainz - Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx-Universität - Universitätsbibliothek |
Germany | München LMU - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität - Universitätsbibliothek |
Germany | München TUM - Technische Universität München - Universitätsbibliothek |
Germany | Münster - Westfälische Xxxxxxxx-Universität - Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek |
Germany | Oldenburg - Xxxx xxx Xxxxxxxxx Universität Oldenburg - BIS - Bibliotheks- und Informationssystem - Universitätsbibliothek |
Germany | Potsdam - Universität Potsdam - Universitätsbibliothek |
Germany | Regensburg - Universität Regensburg - Universitätsbibliothek |
Germany | Rostock - Universität Rostock - Universitätsbibliothek |
Germany | Siegen - Universität Siegen - Universitätsbibliothek |
Germany | Würzburg - Xxxxxx-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg - Universitätsbibliothek |
Germany | HGF - Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY |
Germany | HGF - Forschungszentrum Jülich |
Germany | HGF - GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung |
Germany | HGF - Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf |
Germany | HGF - Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ |
Greece | HEAL-Link Consortium |
Hong-Kong | Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC) |
Hong-Kong | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Hong-Kong | City University of Hong Kong |
Hong-Kong | Hong Kong Institute of Education |
Hong-Kong | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
Hong-Kong | Hong Kong University of Science & Technology |
Hong-Kong | Open University of Hong Kong |
Hong-Kong | University of Hong Kong |
Hungary | The Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
Hungary | EISZ Consortium1 |
Hungary | Institute of Nuclear Research, HAS |
Hungary | Wigner Research Centre for Physics, HAS |
IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency |
Iceland | National and University Library of Iceland |
Iceland | Iceland Consortium for Electronic Subscriptions |
Xxxxxx | XXXXXX/MACHBA |
Israel | Bar-Ilan University |
Israel | Ben-Gurion University |
Israel | Hebrew University |
Country | SCOAP3 Partners |
Israel | Technion |
Israel | Tel-Avivi University |
Israel | Weizmann University |
Italy | Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare |
Italy | CNR Library |
Italy | ENEA library |
Italy | ICTP - Trieste |
Italy | INFN LN Frascati |
Italy | INFN LN Gran Sasso |
Italy | INFN LN Legnaro |
Italy | INFN LN Sud |
Italy | Istituto S.Xxxx Xxxx |
Italy | Politecnico di Torino |
Italy | Politecnico Milano |
Italy | Scuola Normale Pisa |
Italy | Sincrotrone Trieste |
Italy | SISSA Trieste |
Italy | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore |
Italy | Università del Salento |
Italy | Università della Calabria |
Italy | Università dell'Aquila |
Italy | Università dell'Insubria |
Italy | Università di Bari |
Italy | Università di Bologna |
Italy | Università di Brescia |
Italy | Università di Cagliari |
Italy | Università di Catania |
Italy | Università di Ferrara |
Italy | Università di Firenze |
Italy | Università di Genova |
Italy | Università di Milano Statale |
Italy | Università di Milano-Bicocca |
Italy | Università di Modena e Reggio |
Italy | Università di Napoli "Xxxxxxxx XX" |
Italy | Università di Padova |
Italy | Università di Palermo |
Italy | Università di Pavia |
Italy | Università di Perugia |
Italy | Università di Pisa |
Italy | Università di Roma "La Sapienza" |
Italy | Università di Salerno |
Country | SCOAP3 Partners |
Italy | Università di Torino |
Italy | Università di Trento |
Italy | Università di Trieste |
Italy | Università di Udine |
Italy | Università Roma Tre |
Japan | The National Institute of Informatics |
Japan | Aoyama Gakuin University Library |
Japan | Chiba University Library |
Japan | High Energy Accelerator Research Organization Library |
Japan | Hiroshima University Library |
Japan | Hokkaido University Library |
Japan | Ibaraki University Library |
Japan | Institute of Space and Astronautical Science Library |
Japan | International Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx Library |
Japan | Keio University Media Center |
Japan | Kobe University Library |
Japan | Kumamoto University Library |
Japan | Kwansei Gakuin University Library |
Japan | Kyoto University Library |
Japan | Kyushu Institute of Technology Library |
Japan | Kyushu University Library |
Japan | Meiji University Library |
Japan | Nagoya Institute of Technology Library |
Japan | Nagoya University Library |
Japan | National Institute of Informatics Library |
Japan | Niigata University Library |
Japan | Nihon University Library |
Japan | Osaka University Library |
Japan | RIKEN Library |
Japan | Rikkyo University Library |
Japan | Xxxxxxxxxxx University Library |
Japan | Shinshu University Library |
Japan | Tohoku University Library |
Japan | Tokai University Library |
Japan | Tokyo Institute of Technology Library |
Japan | Tokyo Woman's Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx Library |
Japan | University of Tokyo Library System |
Japan | University of Tsukuba Library |
Japan | Waseda University Library |
Japan | Yamagata University Library |
Armenia, Azerbaijan, | Joint Institute for Nuclear Research |
Country | SCOAP3 Partners |
Belarus, Cuba, DPRK, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Mongolia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam | |
Korea | Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information |
Korea | Agency for Defense Development |
Korea | Ajou University |
Korea | Ajou University Medical Library |
Korea | Andong National University |
Korea | Animal, Plant and Fisheries Quarantine and Inspection Agency |
Korea | CJ Cheiljedang Corporation. |
Korea | Catholic University College of Medicine |
Korea | Catholic of Daegu School of Medicine |
Korea | Changwon National University |
Korea | Cheju National University |
Korea | Cheongju University |
Korea | Chonbuk National University |
Korea | Chonnam National University |
Korea | Chosun University |
Korea | Chung-Ang University, Xxxxxxx Campus |
Korea | Chungang University (Seoul) |
Korea | Chungang University Medical Center |
Korea | Chungbuk National University |
Korea | Chungnam National University |
Korea | Climate Research Lab |
Korea | Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology |
Korea | Daejeon St. Mary's Hospital |
Korea | Daejeon University |
Korea | Daesang Corporation |
Korea | Daewoong Co., Ltd. |
Korea | Xxxxxxx University Cheonan Campus |
Korea | Xxxxxxx University Jukjeon Campus |
Korea | Dong-A University |
Korea | Dongduk Women's University |
Korea | Dongguk University |
Korea | Dongguk University Gyeongju Library |
Korea | Dongseo University |
Korea | Duksung Women's University |
Korea | ETRI |
Korea | Ewha Womans University |
Country | SCOAP3 Partners |
Korea | GaChon University (Global Campus) |
Korea | GaChon University (Medical Campus) |
Korea | Gangneung Wonju National University |
Korea | Greenhouse Gas Inventory Research Center of Korea |
Korea | Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology |
Korea | Xxxxxxxxxx National University |
Korea | Hallym University |
Korea | Hanbat National University |
Korea | Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Global Campus |
Korea | Hanseo University |
Korea | Hanyang University Seoul |
Korea | Hongik University |
Korea | Hoseo University Asan Campus |
Korea | Hyundai Motor Company |
Korea | Inha University |
Korea | Inje University |
Korea | Inje University Xxxxx Xxxx Hospital |
Korea | Inje University Medical Library |
Korea | XXXX |
Korea | KFRI |
Korea | KIAS |
Korea | KICET |
Korea | XXXX |
Korea | KIMM |
Korea | KIPO |
Korea | KIST |
Korea | KITECH |
Korea | KRRI |
Korea | KT Corporate Technology Group |
Korea | KT&G Central Research Institute |
Korea | Kangbuk Samsung Hospital |
Korea | Kangdong Sacred Heart Hospital |
Korea | Kangnam University |
Korea | Kangwon National University |
Korea | Kongju National University |
Korea | Xxxxxx University Chungju |
Korea | Xxxxxx University Seoul |
Korea | Kookmin University |
Korea | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) |
Korea | Korea Aerospace University |
Korea | Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute |
Country | SCOAP3 Partners |
Korea | Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute |
Korea | Korea Automotive Technology Institute |
Korea | Korea Basic Science Institute |
Korea | Korea Environment Institute |
Korea | Korea Forest Research Institute |
Korea | Korea Forest Seed & Variery Center |
Korea | Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs |
Korea | Korea Institute of Atmospheric Prediction System (KIAPS) |
Korea | Korea Institute of Construction Technology |
Korea | Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources |
Korea | Korea Institute of Materials Science |
Korea | Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology (KIOST) |
Korea | Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences |
Korea | Korea Maritime University |
Korea | Korea Military Academy |
Korea | Korea National Arboretum |
Korea | Korea National University of Transportation |
Korea | Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute (KORDI) |
Korea | Korea Polytechnic University |
Korea | Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology (KRIBB) |
Korea | Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) |
Korea | Korea University Seoul |
Korea | Korea Yakult |
Korea | Kunsan National University |
Korea | Kwangwoon University |
Korea | Kyonggi University |
Korea | Kyung Hee University Global campus |
Korea | Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong |
Korea | Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx Medical Center |
Korea | Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx Seoul |
Korea | Kyungnam University |
Korea | Kyungpook National University |
Korea | Xxxxxxxxx University |
Korea | LG Chemical Ltd. |
Korea | LG Display |
Korea | LG Hausys |
Korea | Mokwon University |
Korea | Xxxxxxx University Science Campus |
Korea | National Fisheries R&D |
Korea | National Fusion Research Institute |
Country | SCOAP3 Partners |
Korea | National Institute for Mathematical Sciences |
Korea | National Institute of Environmental Research |
Korea | Paichai University |
Korea | Patent Information Promotion Center |
Korea | Pohang University of Science and Technology |
Korea | Pukyong National University |
Korea | Pusan National University |
Korea | RIST |
Korea | Rural Development Administration |
Korea | Sahmyook University |
Korea | Samsung Advanced Institut of Technology |
Korea | Samsung Changwon Hospital |
Korea | Samsung Digital City |
Korea | Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. |
Korea | Samsung Electronics Semiconductor |
Korea | Sangji University |
Korea | Sangmyung University Cheonan |
Korea | Xxxxxx University |
Korea | Semyung University |
Korea | Seoul National University |
Korea | Seoul National University College of Medicine |
Korea | Seoul National University of Science and Technology |
Korea | Seoul Semiconductor LTD |
Korea | Seoul Women's University |
Korea | Sogang University |
Korea | Sookmyung Women's University |
Korea | Soonchunhyang University |
Korea | Soonchunhyang University Hospital Seoul |
Korea | Xxxxxxxx University |
Korea | Sunchon University |
Korea | XxxxXxxxXxxx University Natural Science Campus |
Korea | The Catholic University of Korea |
Korea | The Catholic University of Korea, Incheon St.Mary's Hospital |
Korea | The University of Seoul |
Korea | UNIST |
Korea | University Ulsan College of Medicine Asan Medical Library |
Korea | University of Incheon |
Korea | University of Ulsan |
Korea | Wonkwang University |
Korea | World Institute of Kimchi |
Korea | Yeungnam Univ. Medical Center |
Country | SCOAP3 Partners |
Korea | Yeungnam University |
Korea | Xxxxxx University Medical Library |
Korea | Xxxxxx University Seoul |
Korea | Xxxxxx University Wonju |
Korea | Xxxxxx University Wonju College of Medicine |
Korea | Yuhan Research Institute |
Mexico | CONACYT-CONRICYT |
Netherlands | SURFmarket, on behalf of Universiteitsbibliotheken en de Koninklijke Bibliotheek and National Instituut voor Subatomaire Fysica |
Netherlands | FOM-NIKHEF |
Netherlands | Technische Universiteit Delft |
Netherlands | Technische Universiteit Eindhoven |
Netherlands | UKB Consortium |
Netherlands | Universiteit Leiden |
Netherlands | Universiteit Twente |
Netherlands | Universiteit van Amsterdam |
Norway | CRIStin |
Norway | NTNU - Norwegian University of science and technology Library |
Norway | University of Bergen Library |
Norway | University of Oslo Library |
Poland | ICM University of Warsaw |
Poland | Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxx University |
Poland | AGH University of Science and Technology |
Poland | Bialystok University |
Poland | Electronic Materials Technology Institute - Poland |
Poland | Gdansk Technical University |
Poland | Gdansk University |
Poland | Institute of Electron Technology |
Poland | Instytut Fizyki Plazmy i Laserowej Mikrosyntezy |
Poland | Xxxxxxxxxxxx University - Krakow |
Poland | Xxx Xxxxxxxxxxx University |
Poland | Koszalin Technical University |
Poland | Lodz University |
Poland | Xxxxx Xxxxx-Xxxxxxxxxx University |
Poland | Military University of Technology |
Poland | Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx University |
Poland | Polish Academy of Sciences - Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Institute of Nuclear Physics |
Poland | Polish Academy of Sciences - Institute of Fluid Flow Machinery |
Country | SCOAP3 Partners |
Poland | Polish Academy of Sciences - Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research |
Poland | Polish Academy of Sciences - Institute of Mathematics |
Poland | Polish Academy of Sciences - Institute of Molecular Physics |
Poland | Polish Academy of Sciences - Institute of Physical Chemistry |
Poland | Polish Academy of Sciences - Institute of Physics |
Poland | Poznan University of Technology |
Poland | Rzeszow University |
Poland | Silesia Technical University |
Poland | Silesia University - Katowice |
Poland | Szczecin University |
Poland | Warsaw University |
Poland | Warsaw University of Technology |
Poland | West Pomeranian University of Technology |
Poland | Wroclaw University |
Poland | Wroclaw University of Technology |
Portugal | Fundação Para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. |
Portugal | b-on Consortium |
Slovak Republic | Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic |
South Africa | South African National Library and Information Consortium |
South Africa | South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) |
South Africa | Stellenbosch University |
South Africa | University of Cape Town |
South Africa | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
South Africa | University of Pretoria |
South Africa | University of South Africa |
South Africa | University of Witwatersrand |
South Africa | University of the Western Cape |
Spain | Consorcio de Bibliotecas Universitarias de Andalucia (CBUA) |
Spain | Universidad de Cádiz |
Spain | Universidad de Granada |
Spain | Universidad de Huelva |
Spain | Universidad de Málaga |
Spain | Universidad de Navarra |
Spain | Universidad de Sevilla |
Spain | Consorcio de Bibliotecas Universitarias de Castilla y Xxxx (BUCLE) |
Spain | Universidad de Salamanca |
Spain | Universidad de Xxxxxx |
Spain | Universidad de Xxxx |
Country | SCOAP3 Partners |
Spain | Universidad de Valladolid |
Spain | Consorcio de Bibliotecas Universitarias de Galicia (BUGalicia) |
Spain | Universidade da Coruña |
Spain | Universidade de Xxxxxxxx de Compostela |
Spain | Universidade de Vigo |
Spain | Consortium Canarias-Levante |
Spain | Universidad Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx |
Spain | Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena |
Spain | Universidad Politécnica de Valencia |
Spain | Universidad de Alicante |
Spain | Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha |
Spain | Universidad de La Laguna |
Spain | Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria |
Spain | Universidad de Murcia |
Spain | Universidad de València |
Spain | Universidad de Extremadura |
Spain | Universidad Complutense |
Spain | Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambientales y Tecnologicas (CIEMAT) |
Spain | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
Spain | Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya (CSUC) |
Spain | Biblioteca de Catalunya |
Spain | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
Spain | Universitat Xxxxx X |
Spain | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya |
Spain | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya |
Spain | Universitat Xxxxxx Xxxxx |
Spain | Universitat Rovira i Virgili |
Spain | Universitat de Barcelona |
Spain | Universitat de Girona |
Spain | Universitat de Lleida |
Spain | Universitat de les Illes Balears |
Spain | Grupo 9 de Universidades |
Spain | Universidad Pública de Navarra |
Spain | Universidad de Cantabria |
Spain | Universidad de La Rioja |
Spain | Universidad de Xxxxxx |
Spain | Universidad de Xxxx Xxxxx/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea |
Spain | Universidad de Xxxxxxxx |
Spain | Consorcio Madroño |
Spain | UNED |
Country | SCOAP3 Partners |
Spain | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
Spain | Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx III |
Spain | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid |
Sweden | National Library of Sweden |
Sweden | BIBSAM Consortium |
Sweden | Xxxxxxxx University of Technology |
Sweden | Xxxx University |
Sweden | Royal Institute of Technology |
Sweden | Stockholm University |
Sweden | Uppsala University |
Switzerland | Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries |
Switzerland | BCU - Fribourg |
Switzerland | EPFL |
Switzerland | ETH Zurich |
Switzerland | Fachhochschulen |
Switzerland | Lib4RI |
Switzerland | UB Bern |
Switzerland | Universität Basel |
Switzerland | Universität Zurich |
Switzerland | Université de Genève |
Taiwan | Academia Sinica of Taiwan |
Taiwan | Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology |
Taiwan | Xxxxx Gung University |
Taiwan | Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx University |
Taiwan | China Medical University |
Taiwan | Xxxxx Xxx University |
Taiwan | Xxxxx Xxxx Medical University |
Taiwan | Feng Chia University |
Taiwan | Hungkuang University |
Taiwan | I-Shou University |
Taiwan | Kaohsiung Medical University |
Taiwan | Kun Shan University |
Taiwan | Ming Chi University of Technology |
Taiwan | Ming Chuan University |
Taiwan | National Central University |
Taiwan | National Changhua University of Education |
Taiwan | National Cheng Kung University |
Taiwan | National Chengchi University |
Taiwan | National Chiao Tung University |
Taiwan | National Xxxxxx University |
Taiwan | National Chung-Hsing University |
Country | SCOAP3 Partners |
Taiwan | National Defense Medical Center |
Taiwan | National Xxxx Xxx University |
Taiwan | National Ilan University |
Taiwan | National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences |
Taiwan | National Pingtung University of Science and Technology |
Taiwan | National Taipei University of Technology |
Taiwan | National Taiwan University |
Taiwan | National Taiwan Normal University |
Taiwan | National Taiwan Ocean University |
Taiwan | National Taiwan University of Science and Technology |
Taiwan | National Tsing Hua University |
Taiwan | National University of Kaohsiung |
Taiwan | National Yang-Ming University |
Taiwan | Providence University |
Taiwan | Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica |
Taiwan | Soochow University |
Taiwan | Taipei Medical University |
Taiwan | Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute |
Taiwan | Xxxxxxx University, Xxxxx Xxxxx Memorial Library |
Taiwan | Tatung University |
Taiwan | Vanung University |
Taiwan | Yuan Ze University |
Turkey | Turkish Academic Network and Information Center |
Turkey | Consortium TUBITAK ULAKBIM |
United Kingdom | JISC Collections |
United Kingdom | Aberystwyth University |
United Kingdom | Aston University |
United Kingdom | Bangor University |
United Kingdom | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council |
United Kingdom | Bournemouth University |
United Kingdom | Xxxxxxxxx University |
United Kingdom | Edge Xxxx University |
United Kingdom | Edinburgh Xxxxxx University |
United Kingdom | Glasgow Caledonian University |
United Kingdom | Heriot-Watt University |
United Kingdom | Imperial College London |
United Kingdom | Institute of Education |
United Kingdom | Keele University |
United Kingdom | King's College London |
United Kingdom | Kingston University |
United Kingdom | Lancaster University |
Country | SCOAP3 Partners |
United Kingdom | Leeds Metropolitan University |
United Kingdom | Liverpool Xxxx Xxxxxx University |
United Kingdom | London School of Economics |
United Kingdom | London South Bank University |
United Kingdom | Loughborough University |
United Kingdom | Manchester Metropolitan University |
United Kingdom | National Library of Scotland |
United Kingdom | Newcastle University |
United Kingdom | Northumbria University |
United Kingdom | Nottingham Trent University |
United Kingdom | Queen Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx, Edinburgh |
United Kingdom | Queen Xxxx & Westfield College |
United Kingdom | Queen's University Belfast |
United Kingdom | Reading University |
United Kingdom | Royal Xxxxxxxx, University of London |
United Kingdom | Scotland's Rural College |
United Kingdom | Sheffield Xxxxxx University |
United Kingdom | St George's University of London |
United Kingdom | STFC Xxxxxxxx & RAL Libraries incl STFC Roe Lib |
United Kingdom | Swansea University |
United Kingdom | The Open University |
United Kingdom | The Xxxxxx Xxxxxx University |
United Kingdom | University College London |
United Kingdom | University College Suffolk |
United Kingdom | University of Aberdeen |
United Kingdom | University of Abertay |
United Kingdom | University of Bath |
United Kingdom | University of Birmingham |
United Kingdom | University of Bristol |
United Kingdom | University of Cambridge |
United Kingdom | University of Central Lancashire |
United Kingdom | University of Derby |
United Kingdom | University of Dundee |
United Kingdom | University of Durham |
United Kingdom | University of East Anglia |
United Kingdom | University of Edinburgh |
United Kingdom | University of Exeter |
United Kingdom | University of Glasgow |
United Kingdom | University of Hertfordshire |
United Kingdom | University of Huddersfield |
United Kingdom | University of Hull |
Country | SCOAP3 Partners |
United Kingdom | University of Kent |
United Kingdom | University of Leeds |
United Kingdom | University of Leicester |
United Kingdom | University of Liverpool |
United Kingdom | University of Manchester Library |
United Kingdom | University of Northampton |
United Kingdom | University of Nottingham |
United Kingdom | University of Oxford |
United Kingdom | University of Salford |
United Kingdom | University of Sheffield |
United Kingdom | University of Southampton |
United Kingdom | University of St Xxxxxxx |
United Kingdom | University of Stirling |
United Kingdom | University of Strathclyde |
United Kingdom | University of Surrey |
United Kingdom | University of Sussex |
United Kingdom | University of the Highlands & Islands |
United Kingdom | University of the West of England |
United Kingdom | University of the West of Scotland |
United Kingdom | University of Ulster |
United Kingdom | University of Warwick |
United Kingdom | University of Westminster |
United Kingdom | University of York |
United States | California Digital Library |
United States | Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx National Laboratory |
United States | Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx National Laboratory |
United States | Lyrasis |
United States | American University, Washington DC |
United States | Arizona State University |
United States | Xxxxxx University |
United States | Xxxxxx University |
United States | Boston College |
United States | Boston University |
United States | Xxxxxxxx University |
United States | Xxxxxxx Xxxxx University |
United States | Brown University |
United States | Cal State University (CSU) |
United States | Cal State University, Fresno |
United States | California Institute of Technology |
United States | Carnegie Mellon University |
United States | City University Of New York |
Country | SCOAP3 Partners |
United States | Xxxxxxxxx University Consortium |
United States | Columbia University |
United States | College of Xxxxxxx and Xxxx |
United States | College of the Holy Cross |
United States | Colorado State University |
United States | Consortium - OhioLINK |
United States | Xxxxxxx University Library, Ithaca, NY |
United States | Xxxxxxxxx University |
United States | DOE Argonne National Laboratory |
United States | DOE Xxxxxxxxxx National Laboratory |
United States | DOE Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
United States | DOE Los Alamos National Laboratory |
United States | DOE Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
United States | DOE Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
United States | DOE SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory |
United States | DOE Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx National Accelerator Facility |
United States | Dartmouth College |
United States | Duke University |
United States | East Carolina University |
United States | Emory University |
United States | Florida Atlantic University |
United States | Florida Institute of technology |
United States | Florida International University |
United States | Florida State University |
United States | Xxxxxx Xxxxx University |
United States | Xxxxxxxxxx University |
United States | Georgia Institute of Technology (GA Tech) |
United States | Georgia State University |
United States | Harvard University |
United States | Xxxxxxxxx College |
United States | Illinois Institute of Technology |
United States | Indiana University |
United States | Iowa State University |
United States | Xxxxx Xxxxxxx University |
United States | Xxxxx Xxxxxxx University |
United States | Kansas State University |
United States | Lafayette College |
United States | Louisiana State University |
United States | MCLS |
United States | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
United States | Michigan State University |
Country | SCOAP3 Partners |
United States | Montana State University |
United States | New York University |
United States | North Carolina State University |
United States | North Dakota State University |
United States | Northeastern University |
United States | Northwestern University |
United States | Pennsylvania State University |
United States | Princeton University |
United States | Purdue University |
United States | Xxxxxxxxxx Polytechnic |
United States | Rice University |
United States | Rochester Institute of Technology |
United States | Xxxxxxxxxxx University |
United States | Xxxxxxx University |
United States | Xxxxx College |
United States | South Dakota State University |
United States | Southern Methodist University |
United States | Stony Xxxxx University |
United States | Syracuse University |
United States | Temple University |
United States | Texas A & M |
United States | Texas Tech University |
United States | Trinity University, San Xxxxxxx TX |
United States | Tufts University |
United States | Tulane University |
United States | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
United States | University of Alabama, Birmingham |
United States | University of Alabama, Huntsville |
United States | University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa |
United States | University of Arizona |
United States | University of Arkansas |
United States | University of Central Florida |
United States | University of Chicago |
United States | University of Connecticut |
United States | University of Colorado Boulder |
United States | University of Denver |
United States | University of Florida |
United States | University of Georgia |
United States | University of Idaho |
United States | University of Illinois, Chicago |
United States | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
Country | SCOAP3 Partners |
United States | University of Iowa |
United States | University of Kansas |
United States | University of Kentucky |
United States | University of Maine, Bangor |
United States | University of Maryland Baltimore County |
United States | University of Maryland, College Park MD |
United States | University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
United States | University of Miami |
United States | University of Michigan, Xxx Xxxxx |
United States | University of Minnesota |
United States | University of Mississippi |
United States | University of Missouri |
United States | University of Nebraska-Xxxxxxx |
United States | University of New Mexico |
United States | University of North Carolina Charlotte |
United States | University of North Carolina, Chapel Xxxx |
United States | University of North Carolina, Greensboro |
United States | University of North Dakota |
United States | University of North Texas |
United States | University of Northern Iowa |
United States | University of Notre Dame |
United States | University of Oklahoma |
United States | University of Oregon |
United States | University of Pennsylvania |
United States | University of Pittsburgh |
United States | University of Puerto Rico |
United States | University of Rhode Island |
United States | University of Rochester |
United States | University of South Alabama |
United States | University of South Carolina |
United States | University of Southern California |
United States | University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
United States | University of Texas, Arlington |
United States | University of Texas, Austin |
United States | University of Texas, San Xxxxxxx |
United States | University of Utah, Salt Lake City |
United States | University of Virginia |
United States | University of Washington |
United States | University of Wisconsin |
United States | University of Wyoming |
United States | Utah State University |
Country | SCOAP3 Partners |
United States | VIVA |
United States | Valparaiso University |
United States | Vanderbilt University |
United States | Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx University |
United States | Virginia Institute of Technology (VA Tech) |
United States | Wake Forest University |
United States | Washington State University |
United States | Washington University, Saint Xxxxx |
United States | Xxxxx State University |
United States | Xxxxxxxxx College |
United States | West Virginia University |
United States | Yale University |
United States | Yeshiva University |
This list is updated as Parties accede to the MoU,
as Representatives of the Partners, and Representatives amend the list of Partners they represent
June 2017 – Amended Annex 3 valid from January 2018
Annex 3 to the Memorandum of Understanding for the establishment and operation of SCOAP3
List of Publishers and Journals, in alphabetical order participating for Phase 2 of SCOAP3 (2017-2019)
Publisher | Journal |
Elsevier | Physics Letters B |
Elsevier | Nuclear Physics B |
Xxxxxxx | Advances in High Energy Physics |
Institute of Physics Publishing/ Chinese Academy of Sciences | Chinese Physics C |
Jagellonian University | Acta Physica Polonica B |
Oxford University Press/Physical Society of Japan | Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics |
Springer/Società Italiana di Fisica | European Physical Journal X |
Xxxxxxxx/SISSA | Journal of High Energy Physics |
As a result of the negotiated contracts with the above listed publishers, the average total yearly value of the contracts for the provision of the Services is
4.9 MEUR [5.3 MCHF].
List of Publishers and Journals, in alphabetical order with a participation starting in 2018.
Publisher | Journal |
American Physical Society | Physical Review C |
American Physical Society | Physical Review D |
American Physical Society | Physical Review Letters |
As a result of the negotiated contracts with the above listed publishers, the average total yearly value of the contracts for the provision of the Services is
5.6 MUSD [5.4 MCHF].
October 2013
Annex 4 to the Memorandum of Understanding for the establishment and operation of SCOAP3
Form of Contract with Publishers
ORGANISATION EUROPÉENNE POUR LA RECHERCHE NUCLÉAIRE
CERNEUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH
Provision of peer-review, open access and other publication services for the benefit of SCOAP3
CONTRACT Nr. B…./GS
CONTRACTOR: xxxxxxxxxx
CONTRACT No. B …/GS
BETWEEN
THE EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH, an Intergov-
ernmental Organization with its seat at Geneva, Switzerland, hereafter referred to as
“CERN”, acting for the benefit of SCOAP3,
on the one hand,
AND
NAME IN CAPITAL LETTERS , with registered office located at complete address, COUNTRY CODE- xxxx PLACE, hereafter referred to as the “Contractor”,
OR (in case of a combination of firms)
– NAME IN CAPITAL LETTERS ,– complete address, COUNTRY CODE- xxxx PLACE, hereafter referred to as the “Lead Firm”,
– NAME IN CAPITAL LETTERS – complete address, COUNTRY CODE- xxxx PLACE
– NAME IN CAPITAL LETTERS – complete address, COUNTRY CODE- xxxx PLACE
acting jointly and severally, hereafter collectively referred to as the “Contractor”,
on the other hand,
CERN and the Contractor are hereafter individually referred to as the “Party” and col- lectively as the “Parties”.
CONSIDERING THAT:
The SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Phys- ics, defined below) initiative aims to facilitate open access publishing of High Energy Physics (HEP) literature in high-quality, peer-reviewed scientific journals;
SCOAP3 is a consortium established by a global network of funding agencies, re- search institutions, libraries and library consortia which are re-directing funds current- ly used to subscribe to HEP journals to a common fund (the “SCOAP3 Funding”) used to pay publishers for the provision of peer-review, open access and other publication services (the “Services”, as defined below);
On …..date………., CERN issued the Invitation to Tender IT-3827/GS for the award of a contract concerning the provision of peer-review, open access and other publica- tion services, for the benefit of SCOAP3 (the “Invitation to Tender”, comprising fol- lowing documents: the “Instructions to Bidders”, the “Evaluation Questionnaire”, the “Tender Form” and the “Technical Specification”);
On ……..date……., CERN clarified several aspects of the Invitation to Tender doc- uments by the minutes of the meeting held on 30 May 2012;
On …..date………., the Contractor submitted its bid, as revised/completed on
…..date……, following which the Contractor is identified as one of the successful bidders;
THE PARTIES HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:
CLAUSE 1 DEFINITIONS
In the Contract (as defined below), the following expressions shall have the following meaning:
“Applicable Laws” shall mean all CERN rules and regulations relevant for the execu- tion of the Contract and all laws, treaties, rules, regulations and orders of any local, national or other authority having jurisdiction over the Contractor.
“CERN” shall mean the European Organization for Nuclear Research, acting for the benefit of SCOAP3.
“Contract” shall mean the present terms and conditions and the Annexes.
“Contract Price” shall mean the price payable by CERN to the Contractor in consider- ation of the execution and the completion by the Contractor, and after acceptance by CERN, of the Services, as set out in Clause 9 and for the duration of the Contract.
“Currency” shall mean the currency (CHF, EUR, GBP, USD) selected by the Contrac- tor in its bid and indicated in Annex 1.
“Days” shall mean calendar days.
“Delivery Format” shall mean as indicated in Annex 1.
“Disclosing Party” shall mean the Party disclosing confidential information.
“Force Majeure” shall mean any circumstance beyond the reasonable control of the Party invoking force majeure, including but not limited to acts of nature, fire and war, which prevent it, wholly or partially, from performing its obligations under the Con- tract. Strikes and other labour conflict that do not form part of an industry-wide con- flict shall not constitute Force Majeure.
“Journal(s)” shall mean the journal(s) listed in Annex 1. The list of Journals will be made public by CERN.
“License” shall mean as indicated in Annex 1. The License will be made public by CERN.
“Lead Firm” shall mean as defined in Clause 5.
“Maximum Annual Amount” shall mean the maximum amount CERN will pay for the Services in a given contractual year, calculated as set out in Annex 1.
“Maximum Contract Amount” shall mean the maximum amount CERN will pay for the Services for the duration of the Contract, as set out in Annex 1.
“Recipient Party” shall mean the Party receiving confidential information.
“SCOAP3” shall mean the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Par- ticle Physics, for the benefit of whom CERN enters into the Contract.
“SCOAP3 Articles” shall mean:
i) in case Model 1 applies: all research articles1 with DOI of the Journal;
ii) in case Model 2 applies: all research articles with DOI, submitted by authors to the xxXxx.xxx repository under one of the “HEP” categories available to submitters to classify their work2 as primary category.
“SCOAP3 Partners” are the funding agencies, research institutions, libraries and li- brary consortia which are re-directing funds from current HEP journals subscriptions to a common fund used to pay for the Services. CERN will maintain a list of the SCOAP3 Partners and make it available to the Contractor.
1 A peer-reviewed document identified in ThomsonReuters’ Web of Science as “article” or “review”
2 xxxx://xxxxx.xxx/xxxxxxx/xxx-xx, xxxx://xxxxx.xxx/xxxxxxx/xxx-xx, xxxx://xxxxx.xxx/xxxxxxx/xxx-xx, xxxx://xxxxx.xxx/xxxxxxx/xxx-xxx
“SCOAP3 Repository” shall mean the repository made available by CERN for the de- livery of the SCOAP3 Articles.
“Services” shall mean the provision of peer-review, open access and other publication services as defined in the Technical Specification. The Services shall be provided in accordance with the License, Delivery Format and Unit Price indicated in Annex 1.
“Unit Price” shall mean the price per SCOAP3 Article for the Journal(s), deemed to be an all-inclusive price for the Services, and including all other duties, obligations, lia- bilities, costs, disbursements, expenses, insurance and overheads of the Contractor. The Unit Price is firm and not subject to revision for the duration of the Contract. The Unit Price will be made public by CERN.
CLAUSE 2 SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
2.1 CERN, for the benefit of SCOAP3, entrusts to the Contractor, who hereby accepts, the task of providing the Services in accordance with the Contract.
2.2 The Contract shall comprise:
• The present terms and conditions ;
• Annex 1: List of Journals, License, Delivery Format, Unit Price, Maximum Annual Amount, Maximum Contract Amount per Journal and Currency;
• Annex 2: CERN’s Invitation to Tender IT-3827/GS including its annexes and addenda;
• Annex 3: The Contractor’s bid dated … date…..;
• Annex 4: CERN’s Market Survey and the Contractor’s answer dated … date…..
In the event of any ambiguity or contradiction between these documents, they shall apply in decreasing order of priority, starting from the top.
CLAUSE 3 SUFFICIENCY OF THE CONTRACT
The Contractor shall be deemed to have satisfied itself as to the correctness and suffi- ciency of the Contract. The Contract shall cover all matters necessary for the execu- tion and completion of the Services.
CLAUSE 4 CONTRACTOR’S GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES
The Contractor shall, with due care and diligence and within the delivery schedule defined in Clause 10, execute and complete the Services in accordance with the Con- tract, without any prejudice to its own editorial independence. CERN shall monitor the execution and completion of the Services.
CLAUSE 5 COMBINATION OF FIRMS
5.1 If the Contractor is a combination of firms, the Contract shall be signed by the authorized signatory of each firm member of the combination of firms.
5.2 The members of the combination of firms shall designate one member as the Lead Firm and authorize it to exercise, on their behalf, all rights and obligations granted to the Contractor under the Contract.
5.3 The Contractor shall not, without prior permission in writing by CERN, change the Lead Firm or the composition of the combination of firms.
5.4 In all cases, each member of the combination of firms shall be jointly and severally liable for the performance of the Contractor’s obligations under the Contract.
CLAUSE 6 CONTRACTOR TO REMAIN LIABLE
The Contractor is and shall remain liable for the execution and completion of the Ser- vices and no monitoring, approval, act or omission by CERN shall relieve the Con- tractor from, or diminish, its obligations under the Contract.
CLAUSE 7 CONTRACTOR TO COMPLY WITH APPLICABLE LAWS
The Contractor shall comply with Applicable Laws and shall hold CERN as well as the other SCOAP3 Partners free and harmless from, and indemnify them for any loss or damage arising from the infringement of Applicable Laws.
CLAUSE 8 ASSIGNMENT
The Contractor shall not assign or transfer any part of its rights and obligations under the Contract without prior permission in writing by CERN, which should not be un- reasonably withheld. In considering any requests for assignment or transfer, due con- sideration shall be given to the continuity of SCOAP3 operations for the Journal or Journals concerned, in accordance with the Contract.
CLAUSE 9 CONTRACT PRICE AND PAYMENT CONDITIONS
9.1 In consideration of the execution and completion of the Services and their acceptance by CERN as stipulated in Clause 10, as well as the performance by the Contractor of any other obligation under the Contract, CERN shall pay to the Contractor the Contract Price. The Contract Price, invoiced by the Contractor, shall correspond to the Unit Price multiplied by the number of SCOAP3 Articles accepted by CERN over the duration of the Contract. The Unit Price shall be as set out in Annex 1.
9.2 The Contract Price shall not exceed the Maximum Contract Amount indicated in Annex 1.
9.3 The amount paid by CERN in a calendar year shall not exceed the Maximum Annual Amount for that calendar year. The Maximum Annual Amount shall be calculated as set out in Annex 1. There is no commitment on the part of CERN that this amount will be reached. Should this amount be reached in a given calendar year, the Services shall be provided at no cost for additional SCOAP3 Articles within that calendar year.
9.4 CERN shall make the following advance payments:
• For the first contractual year, an advance payment of 50% of the Maximum Annual Amount for the first year will be made in January of that year;
• For the second contractual year, an advance payment of 30% of the Maximum Annual Amount for the second year will be made in January of that year;
• For the third contractual year, an advance payment of 10% of the Maximum Annual Amount for the third year will be made in January of that year.
Such advance payments shall be subject to the Contractor having sent to CERN a cor- responding invoice, either itself or through the Lead Firm in case of a Combination of Firms.
9.5 The Contractor shall, either itself or through the Lead Firm in case of a Combination of Firms, send to CERN invoices for the Services provided and accepted by CERN according to the invoicing frequency stipulated in Annex A of the Tender Form. Such invoices shall contain, in electronic form, a list of the DOI of all delivered SCOAP3 Articles. In order to simplify administrative procedures, in case the Contract covers several Journals, the Contractor shall group all Journals in one invoice per period. The invoices shall be in duplicate, and reach CERN not later than three months following the end of the period concerned as per the applicable invoicing frequency.
9.6 Provided that the list of SCOAP3 Articles is verified and found to be correct, the amount thus invoiced shall be paid by CERN within thirty days from receipt of the invoice. All payments subsequent to the advance payments described in Clause 9.4 shall be made in arrears.
CLAUSE 10 DELIVERY SCHEDULE AND ACCEPTANCE
10.1 The Contractor shall deliver the SCOAP3 Articles to the SCOAP3 Repository within 24 hours of registering the DOI by the Contractor through CrossRef, in accordance with Section 3 of the Technical Specification.
10.2 In case a delay is caused by CERN and provided the Contractor is not itself in delay for reasons not caused by CERN, the Parties shall agree on the conditions of extension of the delivery schedule.
10.3 A SCOAP3 Article is considered accepted as defined in Section 3.2.3 of the Technical Specification.
CLAUSE 11 PENALTIES FOR LATE DELIVERY OR OTHER NON- CONFORMITY
11.1 Except in case of Force Majeure, CERN reserves the right to apply a penalty in case of late delivery or other non-conformity for the SCOAP3 Articles or the corresponding metadata.
11.2 In case of late delivery of the SCOAP3 Article(s) or the corresponding metadata, such penalty shall correspond to 5% of the Unit Price of the SCOAP3 Article(s) concerned for each working day of delay, counting from the first working day following registration of the DOI.
11.3 In the case of other non-conformity, such penalty shall correspond to 5% of the Unit Price of the SCOAP3 Article(s) concerned, for each working day of delay in remedying the issue, counting from the first working day following notification of the non-conformity by CERN.
11.4 The penalty shall be in all cases limited to a maximum of 50% of the Unit Price of the SCOAP3 Article(s) concerned.
CLAUSE 12 IMPLICATIONS FOR LICENSING AGREEMENTS
12.1 Reduction of subscription prices
The Contractor shall reduce the prices of individual subscriptions, subscription pack- ages and other content licenses for Journals for which the Services are provided in accordance to Section 4.1 of the Technical Specification and its Annex I.
Such reductions shall be applied to all subscribers, regardless of their participation in SCOAP3. CERN shall not broker or monitor reductions for subscribers who are not SCOAP3 Partners.
The Contractor shall provide data in the brokering facility described in Section 4.1 and Annex I of the Technical Specification within two months after CERN’s request to do so.
The provision of information regarding subscription costs between SCOAP3 Partners shall take place in accordance with Clause 15.3.
12.2 Discounted print options
The Contractor shall make print subscriptions available to SCOAP3 Partners at terms no less favourable than those contained in the current contracts between SCOAP3 Partners and the Contractor, including deeply-discounted prices (DDP) where applicable, as set out in Section 4.2 of the Technical Specification.
12.3 Access to older content (“backfiles”)
SCOAP3 Partners shall have no less access to Journal(s) content than they have today, and at terms no less favourable than those contained in the current contracts between SCOAP3 Partners and the Contractor, as set out in Section 4.3 and Annex II of the Technical Specification.
12.4 Reinstatement of subscriptions
After termination of the Contract, or in the event of a discontinuation of SCOAP3 and re-establishment by the Contractor of the possibility of subscribing to the journal(s) concerned, the Contractor shall allow SCOAP3 Partners to reinstate their subscriptions at the prior price levels, subject, as the case may be, to such reasonable adjustments as the Contractor and the SCOAP3 Partners shall agree. Moreover, content that was pub- lished open access as part of the SCOAP3 operation, will continue to be open access without limitation in time. Such open access will be supported by the Contractor.
12.5 Other provisions
All SCOAP3 Articles and other additional content published open access under the Services shall be exclusively subject to the Contract, which supersedes any prior agreements or understanding between the Contractor and the SCOAP3 Partner(s) con- cerned.
CLAUSE 13 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
13.1 The disclosure by CERN to the Contractor of intellectual property under the Contract shall not create any right for it in respect of that intellectual property, other than a license to use such intellectual property in so far as necessary for the performance of its obligations under, and subject to the provisions of, the Contract.
13.2 The disclosure of intellectual property to the Contractor is without any warranty, express or implied, and CERN accepts no liability in relation hereto.
CLAUSE 14 USE OF NAMES AND LOGOS
14.1 The Contractor shall be entitled to use the SCOAP3 name and logo for the purpose of making publicly known its association with SCOAP3.
14.2 SCOAP3 Partners shall be entitled to use the Contractor’s name and logo for the purpose of making publicly known their association with SCOAP3.
14.3 Any other use of names and logos of SCOAP3 Partners and the Contractor shall be subject to prior permission by their owner.
CLAUSE 15 CONFIDENTIALITY
15.1 The Contractor shall not, either during the period of its engagement under the Contract or at any time after its termination, howsoever caused, disclose to any third party without prior written permission of CERN any information or documentation supplied to the Contractor and marked confidential.
15.2 Recipient Party shall keep all information regarding subscription costs reductions confidential, shall not without the Disclosing Party’s prior written permission reproduce that information or disclose it to any other party, and shall use the information solely for the purpose of the Contract. The Recipient Party shall limit the circle of recipients of that information on a need-to-know basis and shall ensure that they are aware of and comply with the obligations defined in the Contract. The recipient Party shall use that information in accordance with best practice and professional standards.
15.3 The Contractor shall release all SCOAP3 Partners from their existing confidenti- ality obligations governing the disclosure of information on subscription contracts. The SCOAP3 Partners shall limit the circle of recipients of that information on a need- to-know basis, for the purpose of entering information (at a country level or a consor- tial level) in the brokering facility described in Section 4.1 of the Technical Specifica-
tions. SCOAP3 Partners shall ensure that those recipients are aware of and comply with the confidentiality obligations defined in the Contract.
CLAUSE 16 LIABILITY
16.1 Each Party shall hold the other Party free and harmless from, and indemnify it for any loss and damage, resulting from its acts or omissions in relation to the Contract.
16.2 Notwithstanding the foregoing: (i) a Party shall not be liable to the other for loss of income or revenue, loss of opportunity, of customers or reputation, or any other indirect or consequential loss or damage, and (ii) each Party’s total liability shall in any event be limited to an amount equal to the Maximum Annual Amount.
CLAUSE 17 ENTRY INTO FORCE AND DURATION
17.1 The Contract shall enter into force upon its signature by the authorized representatives of the Parties and shall be valid for Services to be provided over three calendar years, until 31st of December XXXX
17.2 The Contractor has no entitlement to any prolongation or renewal of the Contract.
CLAUSE 18 TERMINATION
18.1 If a Force Majeure event occurs and its effect continues for a continuous period of 14 Days, either Party may at any time thereafter give to the other a notice of termination. Such termination shall take effect 28 Days after the issuance of said notice provided that the effect of such Force Majeure has not ceased.
18.2 Either Party may terminate the Contract in whole or in part with immediate effect in the event of (i) gross negligence or wilful misconduct by the other Party in relation to the Contract, or (ii) any breach of the Contract by the other Party which has not been remedied within a reasonable period stipulated by the Party notifying the breach and requiring remedial action to be taken.
18.3 CERN may terminate the Contract with immediate effect in the event of: (i) the Contractor making a composition or arrangement with its creditors, having a provisional liquidator, an administrator or receiver appointed, becoming bankrupt or insolvent, having a winding up order made or passing a resolution for voluntary winding up or having an application made for an inventory of its assets as part of or as a precursor to any of the foregoing circumstances, or (ii) in case of change of Lead Firm or change in the composition of the combination of firms without CERN’s prior and express approval, or (iii) in case of infringement of any Applicable Laws by the Contractor, or (iv) in case of assignment or transfer by the Contractor of any part of its obligations under the Contract without prior permission in writing by CERN, or (v) in case of merger of a Journal with another journal, split of Journal(s) or change to the scope of Journal, if such event, in the view of CERN, materially affects the Contractor’s and/or the Journal’s qualifications under the quality criteria applied in the tendering and adjudication process.
18.4 CERN may at any time terminate the Contract in case SCOAP3 funding is insufficient to cover yearly payment obligations under the Contract. CERN shall in that case give the Contractor twelve months notice in writing. The notice period shall commence on the first day of the calendar year following the date of the notice of termination.
CLAUSE 19 CONSEQUENCES OF TERMINATION
19.1 In the event that the Contract is terminated in whole or in part by the Contractor pursuant to Clause 18.2, CERN shall pay to the Contractor an amount equivalent to the Maximum Annual Amount due for the year during which
termination takes place, minus the amount already paid by CERN up to the date of the termination.
19.2 In the event that the Contract is terminated in whole or in part by CERN pursuant to clause 18.2 or to clause 18.3 (i) to (v), the Contractor shall compensate CERN for all costs wholly and necessarily incurred by it as a result of such termination. Such amount will in no event exceed the Maximum Annual Amount due for the year during which termination takes place minus any outstanding amount due by CERN for Services duly performed by the Contractor and accepted by CERN.
19.3 Notwithstanding termination by CERN pursuant to Clause 18.4, each Party shall continue to execute its obligations under the Contract until the termination takes effect. It is also understood that such termination shall be without prejudice to any rights and obligations accrued or incurred prior to the effective date of termination.
19.4 Any payment due under Clause 19.1 or 19.2 shall be without prejudice to any other liability which may arise pursuant to the Contract, which shall be calculated independently, always subject to the limitations set out in Clause 16.
CLAUSE 20 GOVERNING LAW
The terms and conditions of the Contract shall be interpreted in accordance with their true meaning and effect and, as a consequence of CERN’s status as an Intergovernmental Organization, independently of any national, local or other law. Provided that if, and insofar as the Contract does not stipulate, or any of the terms and conditions are ambiguous or unclear, then, in those circumstances only and solely in respect of those circumstances and not in respect of the Contract as a whole, reference shall be made to Swiss substantive law.
CLAUSE 21 DISPUTE RESOLUTION
21.1 If any dispute under the Contract fails to be settled amicably, the Parties shall resort to the arbitration procedure as defined below, drawn up by CERN in accordance with its status as an Intergovernmental Organization. Notwithstanding reference of any dispute to arbitration, the Parties shall continue to perform their obligations under the Contract.
21.2 Within thirty (30) Days of written notification by a Party to the other Party of its intention to resort to arbitration, the first Party shall appoint an arbitrator. The second Party shall appoint an arbitrator within three months of the appointment of the first arbitrator. The two arbitrators shall, by joint agreement and within three months of the appointment of the second arbitrator, select a third arbitrator, who shall
subsequently be appointed by the Parties to preside over the arbitration tribunal.
21.3 If the second Party fails to appoint an arbitrator or the two arbitrators fail to agree on the selection of a third arbitrator, the second or, as the case may be, the third arbitrator, shall be selected by the President of the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organization, established in Geneva (Switzerland), and subsequently appointed by the Parties, at the request of the first Party to do so.
21.4 None of the arbitrators shall be drawn from amongst persons who are or have been in any way in or at the service of CERN or of the Contractor or of any subsidiary or affiliate of the latter. They shall act impartially in the execution of their duties.
21.5 The arbitration proceedings shall take place in Geneva. The Parties shall within thirty days of the appointment of the third arbitrator agree on the terms of reference of the arbitration tribunal, including the procedure to be followed.
21.6 The arbitration tribunal shall faithfully apply the Contract and shall set out in the award the detailed grounds for its decision. The costs of the arbitration, including all reasonable fees expended by the Parties, shall be borne by the unsuccessful Party
or Parties and the award shall include an allocation of such costs. The arbitration tribunal shall have no authority to award interest.
21.7 The arbitral award shall be final and binding upon the Parties, who hereby expressly agree to renounce any form of appeal or revision, whether ordinary or extraordinary, it being understood that each Party may within two weeks from the date of the award request the arbitration tribunal to give a written interpretation of the arbitral award or to correct computation or typographical errors. The interpretation or correction shall be made known to the Parties within two months from the date of the request and shall become part of the award. Until the date of the delivery by the arbitration tribunal of any requested interpretation or correction, the execution of the tribunal award shall be suspended.
21.8 Save to the extent required by law, the arbitral award shall not be published or its contents made known to any third party, unless each Party gives prior written approval.
CLAUSE 22 CLAUSES SURVIVING TERMINATION
22.1 Notwithstanding termination of the Contract, howsoever caused, its terms and conditions shall continue to bind the Parties in so far and for so long as may be necessary to give effect to their respective rights and obligations accrued prior to termination. Clauses 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 13, 15, 16, 19, 20 and 21 shall in any event survive the termination of the Contract.
22.2 SCOAP3 Articles for which the Services have been provided shall remain available open access without limitation in time and the License under which they were published shall not change.
CLAUSE 23 AMENDMENTS
The Contract shall not be amended, except by written agreement between CERN and the Contractor signed by the authorized representatives of CERN and the Contractor.
CLAUSE 24 CORRESPONDENCE
24.1 All correspondence under the Contract shall be in writing and bear the reference:
"Contract No. B……./GS"
24.2 In all technical matters, CERN shall be represented exclusively by, and all correspondence of technical nature shall be addressed to:
CERN – General Services Department
For the attention of …….CERN technical responsible…….
CH -1211 GENEVA 23
24.3 In all commercial or contractual matters other than of technical nature, CERN shall be represented exclusively by and all correspondence of commercial or contractual nature shall be addressed to:
CERN – Finance and Procurement Department Procurement Service
CH – 1211 GENEVE 23
24.4 Invoices shall be sent to:
CERN - Finance and Procurement Department Accounts Payable
CH-1211 GENEVA 23
24.5 Correspondence with the Contractor shall be addressed to:
…..Name, Address of Lead firm…….
Signed in Geneva on, …………date………..
CONTRACTOR
In case of combination of firms:
EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH
LEAD FIRM:
MEMBERS OF COMBINATION OF FIRMS:
ANNEX 1
Journal Name(s) | Delivery format | License | Unit Price | Maximum Annual Amount For the first year of con- tract | Maximum Contract Amount for the Journal | Currency |
.................. | ................. | ................ | .............. | .................... | ................. | ................ |
.................. | ................. | ................ | .............. | .................... | ................. | ................ |
.................. | ................. | ................ | .............. | .................... | ................. | ................ |
.................. | ................. | ................ | .............. | .................... | ................. | ................ |
.................. | ................. | ................ | .............. | .................... | ................. | ................ |
The Maximum Annual Amount for the first contractual year corresponds to the num- ber of SCOAP3 Articles published in 2011 multiplied by the Unit Price.
For the second and the third contractual years, the Maximum Annual Amount shall be calculated as follows:
Maximum Annual Amount for a year N= Amount paid for year N-1 x maximum al- lowable year-on-year increase
The maximum allowable year-on year increase shall be defined as follows:
Number of SCOAP3 Articles published in 2011 | Maximum allowable year-on-year increase |
Above 200 | 104% |
50 – 199 | 108% |
1 – 49 | 125% |
October 2013
Annex 5 to the Memorandum of Understanding for the establishment and operation of SCOAP3
Technical specification
ORGANISATION EUROPEENNE POUR LA RECHERCHE NUCLEAIRE
CERNEUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH
IT-3827/GS
Invitation to Tender
Provision of peer-review, open access and other publication services for the benefit of SCOAP3
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
Abstract
This Technical Specification concerns the provision of peer-review, open access and other publication services, in a transparent and competitive manner, for the benefit of the SCOAP3 consortium.
May 2012
Table of Contents
1. INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 CERN 1
1.2 SCOAP3 1
2. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE SERVICES 2
3. OPEN ACCESS CONDITIONS 3
3.1 Licenses 4
3.2 Delivery of SCOAP3 Articles and metadata 4
3.2.1 Delivery formats for SCOAP3 Articles 5
3.2.2 Delivery formats for metadata for SCOAP3 Articles 5
3.2.3 Delivery method 5
3.2.4 Delivery acceptance 6
4. IMPLICATIONS FOR LICENSING AGREEMENTS 6
4.1 Reduction of subscription costs 6
4.2 Discounted print options for SCOAP3 Partners 8
4.3 Access to older content (“backfiles”) 8
4.4 Reinstatement of subscriptions 8
4.5 Miscellaneous 8
ANNEX I 9
ANNEX II 12
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 CERN
CERN1, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is an Intergovernmental Organization with 20 Member States2. Situated across the French-Swiss border near Geneva, CERN’s mission is to enable international collaboration in the field of High-Energy Physics (HEP) research. To this end, CERN designs, builds and operates particle accelerators and the associated experimental areas, as well as connected IT, administrative and industrial services. More than 10 000 scientific users from research institutes all over the world benefit from CERN facilities. CERN’s flagship project, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is producing unprecedented physics results.
Openness is enshrined in the CERN Convention3 (II.1) “[…] the results of its experimental and theoretical work shall be published or otherwise made generally available”. Congruent with its mission of “[…] sponsoring of international co-operation in nuclear research, including co- operation outside the Laboratories [which] may include in particular […] the dissemination of information”, CERN is now facilitating the implementation of open access in HEP.
1.2 SCOAP3
The SCOAP34 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) initiative aims to facilitate open access publishing of HEP literature in high-quality, peer-reviewed scientific journals. In the SCOAP3 model, publishers are paid by a single entity, SCOAP3, on a per-article basis for peer-review and other publication services, and to make the final version of articles immediately available in open access (the “Services”, as defined throughout the Technical Specification).
1 Information on CERN is available at xxxx://xxxxxx.xxx.xxxx.xx/xxxxxx
2 The CERN Member States are currently Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Israel and the Republic of Serbia are Associate Member States in the pre-stage to Membership and Romania is a Candidate for Accession to CERN.
3 xxxx://xxxxxxx.xxx.xxxx.xx/xxxxxxx/xx/Xxxxxxxxxx/Xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
4Additional information on SCOAP3, its business model, its current membership and an archive of its steps is available at xxxx://xxxxx0.xxx. However, for the scope of this Invitation to Tender, only information provided in this document and its accompanying material is relevant.
SCOAP3 is a global network of funding agencies, research institutions, libraries and library consortia, which are re-directing funds from current HEP journals subscriptions to a common fund used to pay for the Services (the “SCOAP3 Partners”). Individual authors will continue to be free to choose the journal in which they wish to publish and, where that journal participates in SCOAP3 and the article has been qualified as a SCOAP3 Article on the basis of the criteria set out below in Section 2, its services will be remunerated by SCOAP3.
SCOAP3 is inspired by the collaborative models that the HEP community has used for decades to design, build, operate and exploit global research infrastructures.
As a SCOAP3 Partner, CERN hereby issues, for the benefit of this consortium, an Invitation to Tender to qualified potential bidders, which were identified through the Market Survey MS- 3827/GS. Only firms having been qualified by CERN as a result of the said Market Survey are eligible to participate in the present Invitation to Tender.
2. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE SERVICES
The required services (“the Services”) consist of peer-review, open access, and other publication services for HEP content in scientific journals. The Services shall include all the services described in this Technical Specification, including but not limited to editorial independence, timely review and publication cycles, formatting and copy-editing, reference checking and linking, managing or providing links to supplemental data, integration with indexing and abstracting services, management of retractions and corrigenda, and other activities that are best practice in industry and/or currently provided for in the Journal(s) concerned.
The Services shall be provided under either of the following two models: Model 1:
• The Services are rendered in respect of an entire high-quality peer-reviewed Journal.
• This model applies if at least 60% of research articles5 published in the year 2011 in the Journal were submitted by authors to the xxXxx.xxx repository under one of the “HEP”
5 For the scope of this Invitation to Tender, a research article means a peer-reviewed document identified in ThomsonReuters’ Web of Science as “article” or “review”. Documents with any additional classification, such as, but not limited to, "proceedings paper" are not considered as "research articles".
categories available to submitters to classify their work6. Only the main category classification applies, and articles “cross-listed” to said “HEP” categories are not included in the calculation. The denominator of this fraction is the number of citable items in the Journal as per the 2011 ThomsonReuters Web of Science7.
• All research articles with DOI in such Journals will be considered “SCOAP3 Articles”.
• All other content of the Journals (e.g. …editorials, commentary… ), shall also be published under the open access conditions of Section 3.
Model 2:
• The Services are rendered in respect of only a part of a high-quality peer-reviewed Journal.
• This model applies to Journals to which Model 1 above does not apply. Only research
articles with DOI that were submitted by authors to the xxXxx.xxx repository under one of the “HEP” categories will be considered SCOAP3 Articles. Services provided for all other articles, including articles “cross-listed” to said “HEP” categories will not be compensated by SCOAP3.
• SCOAP3 Articles will therefore appear alongside other content in said Journals.
The Services shall include publication of any corrections and/or additions to SCOAP3 Articles under open access conditions of Section 3 without additional compensation.
3. OPEN ACCESS CONDITIONS
SCOAP3 Articles shall be available open access without limitation in time, and their widest re-use shall be possible. They shall be accessible without any barrier on the publisher’s website and shall be delivered in a timely manner (as defined in Section 3.2.2) to a repository operated by SCOAP3, for further distribution and re-use under the applicable License(s) as per Section 3.1 (e.g., re- distribution to institutional repositories of participating institutions or subject-specific repositories). In addition, the publisher shall provide the same quality of service for access to SCOAP3 Articles as to all other journal content on its website in conformity with current standards in the on-line information provision industry.
All SCOAP3 Articles shall be clearly branded “Funded by SCOAP3” and indicate the License under which they are published both on the initial landing page of the online version on the publisher`s website and in the corresponding PDF version.
3.1 Licenses
All SCOAP3 Articles appearing in any Journal shall be licensed under one of the Creative Commons 3.0 Unported licenses8 (the “License”) as set out in the bidder’s answer to this Invitation to Tender. These licenses are listed here below, in order of decreasing preference:
• Attribution (CC BY)
• Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)
• Attribution-NoDerivs (CC BY-ND)
• Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)
• Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)
• Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) No other licence will be accepted.
In addition, metadata describing the SCOAP3 Articles submitted by publishers to the SCOAP3 Repository (as indicated below) shall be provided under the CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication9.
3.2 Delivery of SCOAP3 Articles and metadata
SCOAP3 Articles shall be delivered in their final version, together with properly formatted metadata (as described in Sections 3.2.1 and 3.2.2), to the SCOAP3 Repository. The final version is hereby defined as the one accessible from the web page of the publisher to which the DOI resolves.
3.2.1 Delivery formats for SCOAP3 Articles
The minimum requirement for the delivery format of SCOAP3 Articles is PDF or a self-descriptive XML format. The preferred format is a combination of PDF, PDF/A, and a self-descriptive XML format.
3.2.2 Delivery formats for metadata for SCOAP3 Articles
The minimum requirement for the delivery of metadata for SCOAP3 Articles is as follows:
• Any structured and self-descriptive format is acceptable and must be used consistently for
all SCOAP3 Articles for which a publisher enters into a contract with CERN. An XML- based format is preferred.
• Minimum fields:
o all CrossRef mandatory fields (currently for journal articles: title, abbreviation, URL, print or electronic ISSN, year)
AND, in addition all of the following:
o article DOI
o date of DOI registration in CrossRef
o arXiv number of the pre-print of the article, if applicable (mandatory for all SCOAP3 Articles in Model 2, mandatory in Model 1 whenever the SCOAP3 Article has been submitted to the xxXxx.xxx repository under any of the “HEP” categories)
o names of all authors and for each author the corresponding institutional affiliation(s) of the author(s)
x XXXXX IDs for all authors, once these are available in the publisher’s manuscript tracking systems
o information about the applicable License
3.2.3 Delivery method
SCOAP3 Articles and metadata shall be delivered to the SCOAP3 Repository within 24 hours of registering the DOI of each article through CrossRef. Any changes shall result in a new, but clearly marked, delivery of both SCOAP3 Articles and metadata, within 24 hours of the changes. The delivery of SCOAP3 Articles and metadata shall occur via any of the following methods:
• OAI-PMH or other similar feed
• FTP
• Dedicated API on the publisher side for “pulling” of information by the SCOAP3 repository
• SWORD protocol
• Another similar protocol to be mutually agreed upon with the operator of the SCOAP3 repository.
3.2.4 Delivery acceptance
SCOAP3 will monitor the timeliness of delivery for compliance with the 24-hour term as described in Section 3.2.3. Further, SCOAP3 will monitor the Delivery Format of the SCOAP3 Articles and of the metadata for compliance with the criteria enumerated in Section 3.2.2, as well as the License, as set out in the Contract between CERN and the publisher. Finally, SCOAP3 will monitor articles for eligibility by applying the criteria defining a SCOAP3 Article for the Journal concerned. If SCOAP3 does not reject any given article within 21 days of submission to the SCOAP3 Repository, the delivered SCOAP3 Article shall be regarded as accepted and the fees shall be paid to the publisher in accordance with the payment conditions set forth in the Contract. Failure to meet the 24-hour term or to comply with the delivery formats for SCOAP3 Articles and metadata shall entitle SCOAP3 to apply penalties as set forth in the Contract.
4. IMPLICATIONS FOR LICENSING AGREEMENTS
4.1 Reduction of subscription costs
Publishers shall reduce the prices of individual subscriptions, subscription packages and other subscriber licenses (e.g. “big deals”) in order to facilitate the redirection by SCOAP3 Partners of funds from subscriptions to SCOAP3. Annex I contains examples of such reductions.
Reductions shall be applied for all subscribers, regardless of their participation in SCOAP3. In all cases, a “no double-dipping” principle shall apply, meaning that content paid for by SCOAP3 shall not be charged twice (once to SCOAP3 and once to other customers). For Journals for which services are compensated by SCOAP3 in their entirety (Model 1 in Section 2 above), the “no double-dipping” requirement extends to all document types published in those Journals (i.e. no charges shall be levied to any customers for any content in those Journals).
Price reductions will be made without any obligation to subscribe to alternative journals or to make use of an agreed cancellation limit, and any fixed expenditure commitments that form part of an existing subscriber’s contract will be reduced accordingly. Publishers shall not raise the price of journals not participating in SCOAP3 in order to compensate for the redirection of subscriptions to SCOAP3.
In order to monitor the implementation of these reductions, a brokering facility will be developed by SCOAP3. After the adjudication phase and prior to the conclusion of the Contract, the following process will take place. First, the SCOAP3 Partners will have access to this facility and, either directly or through a national or consortial contact point, will enter their expected reduction for each publisher and combination of Journals offering the Services to SCOAP3, as per one or more of the examples presented in Xxxxx X. In case of countries where SCOAP3 participation is administered through a single contact point or through one or more library consortia, these will have access to information for all the institutions they represent. In a subsequent phase, publishers will have access to the tool and be able to see the proposed reductions for only their own titles for each of the individual SCOAP3 Partners. In case the publisher cannot accept the proposed reductions, it will propose reasonable reductions. The SCOAP3 office at CERN, in liaison with the national or consortial contact points where these exist, will monitor this process and organize reconciliation as needed.
As part of this process, and by submission of its bid, the publisher agrees that the SCOAP3 Partners may disclose to each other, and within their own country and consortium, details of their existing subscription agreements, and this when necessary to calculate these reductions. The SCOAP3 Partners shall limit the circle of recipients of that information on a need-to-know basis and for the purpose of entering information (at a country level or a consortial level) in the brokering facility. SCOAP3 Partners shall ensure that those recipients are aware of and comply with the confidentiality obligations defined in the Contract.
Journals fully converted to open access under SCOAP3 (Model 1) shall remain in the publisher’s title and price lists at a zero rate. They shall also be marked in such lists as “Funded by SCOAP3”.
Journals converted in part to open access under SCOAP3 (Model 2) shall be marked in the publisher’s title and price lists as “Partially funded by SCOAP3”.
4.2 Discounted print options for SCOAP3 Partners
SCOAP3 Partners who choose to maintain print subscriptions to Journals funded by SCOAP3 shall not be financially penalized. Publishers will make print subscriptions available to SCOAP3 Partners at terms no less favourable than those contained in their current contracts, including deeply- discounted prices (DDP) where applicable. This requirement only applies to Journals for which a print version continues to be published.
4.3 Access to older content (“backfiles”)
Many journal licenses include access to a specified amount of older material on either a fixed or rolling window basis. While SCOAP3 addresses publication of new content only, libraries and other subscribers shall have no less access to Journal content than they have today, and at terms no less favourable than those contained in their current contracts. Publishers shall grant this access through scenarios such as those presented in Xxxxx XX, according to their present model to provide “backfiles” as part of their subscription arrangements.
4.4 Reinstatement of subscriptions
In the event of a discontinuation of SCOAP3 and re-establishment by the publisher of the possibility of subscribing to the Journal(s) concerned, the publisher shall allow SCOAP3 Partners to reinstate their subscriptions at the SCOAP3 Partners’ prior price levels, subject, as the case may be, to such reasonable adjustments as the parties shall agree. Moreover, content which was published open access as part of the SCOAP3 operation will continue to be open access without limitation in time. Such open access will be supported by the publisher.
4.5 Miscellaneous
For journals not fully converted to open access (Model 2), publishers shall continue to make COUNTER-compliant usage statistics available to subscribing institutions. The provision of COUNTER-compliant usage statistics for fully converted journals (Model 1) is desirable.
ANNEX I
Cost reduction scenarios for extant licensing agreements after the implementation of SCOAP3 Depending on the circumstances, more than one scenario may apply simultaneously. | |||
1 | For individual subscriptions | Description | If a Journal participates in SCOAP3 in its entirety, the subscriber's cost reduction shall be at least the entire subscription cost. If a Journal participates only partially in SCOAP3, the percentage of its cost reduction shall be not less than the percentage of its SCOAP3 Articles, as published in the year 2011. The reduction shall be applied to the most recent subscription and/or license fees paid for the affected journals, adjusted for annual price increases if applicable. |
Example | • All articles in Journal A will be SCOAP3 Articles • 50% of articles in Journal B will be SCOAP3 Articles • Subscriber’s current cost for Journal A is $1,000 • Subscriber’s current cost for Journal B is $5,000 🡺 Subscriber’s cost reduction for Journal A ≥ $1,000 (100%) 🡺 Subscriber’s cost reduction for Journal B ≥ $2,500 (50%) | ||
2 | For a journal package in which the subscriber’s current cost for each journal in the package is known | Description | Cost reduction shall be not less than the subscriber’s cost in the most recent subscription year, including the percentage of applicable electronic surcharges, of each Journal that will contain SCOAP3 Articles. The subscription fee and electronic surcharge may be governed by separate contracts. If a Journal participates only partially in SCOAP3, the percentage of its cost reduction shall be not less than the percentage of its SCOAP3 Articles, as published in the year 2011. The reduction shall be applied to the most recent subscription and/or license fees paid for the affected Journals, adjusted for annual price increases if applicable. |
Example | • All articles in Journal A will be SCOAP3 Articles • 50% of articles in Journal B will be SCOAP3 Articles • Subscriber’s known cost for Journal A in the most recent subscription year is $1,000 • Subscriber’s known cost for Journal B is $5,000. • Subscriber’s license includes a 10% electronic access fee 🡺 Subscriber’s cost reduction for Journal A ≥ $1,000 x 1.10 = $1,100 🡺 Subscriber’s cost reduction for Journal B ≥ $2,500 x 1.10 = $2,750 | ||
3 | For a journal package in which the subscriber’s cost is based on historical subscription costs for each journal with an annual price increase for the package as a whole | Description | Cost reduction shall be not less than the subscriber’s historical cost, including the percentage of applicable electronic surcharges, multiplied by each successive annual increase, of each Journal that will contain articles paid by SCOAP3. The subscription fee and electronic surcharge may be governed by separate contracts. If a Journal participates only partially in SCOAP3, the percentage of its cost reduction shall be not less than the percentage of its SCOAP3 Articles, as published in the year 2011. The reduction shall be applied to the most recent subscription and/or license fees paid for the affected |
Journals, adjusted for annual price increases if applicable. | |||
Example | • All articles in Journal A will be SCOAP3 Articles • 50% of articles in Journal B will be SCOAP3 Articles • In 2008, Subscriber’s cost for Journal A was $1,000 • In 2008, Subscriber’s cost for Journal B was $5,000. • Subscriber’s license has been subject to a 5% increase per year and includes a 10% electronic access fee 🡺 In 2013, subscriber’s cost reduction for Journal A ≥ $1,100 x 1.05 x 1.05 x 1.05 x 1.05 x 1.05 = $1,403 🡺 In 2013, subscriber’s cost reduction for Journal B ≥ $2,750 x 1.05 x 1.05 x 1.05 x 1.05 x 1.05 = $3,510 | ||
4 | For a journal package with a single, indivisible fixed cost | Description | The percentage of cost reduction shall be not less than the percentage of SCOAP3 Articles (as published in the year 2011) published in each Journal, factoring in the individual list price of Journals participating in SCOAP3 as a proportion of the list price of all journals in the package. The reduction shall be applied to the most recent subscription and/or license fees paid for the affected Journals, adjusted for annual price increases if applicable. |
Example | • Package P consists of 20 journals for a fixed price of $50,000 • The list price of all journals in the package is $62,000. • Journal A has a list price of $1,000. All articles in Journal A will be SCOAP3 Articles. • Journal B has a list price of $5,000 and 50% of its Articles will be SCOAP3 Articles. 🡺 The value of SCOAP3 Articles as a percentage of the package = $3,500 / $62,000 = 5.7% 🡺 Subscriber’s cost reduction for the package ≥ $50,000 x 5.7% = $2,850 | ||
5 | For a journal package in which articles paid by SCOAP3 are contained within a collection of unsubscribed journals covered by a single fee | Description | Cost reduction shall be not less than the list price of Journals participating in SCOAP3, as a percentage of the list price of all journals in the unsubscribed collection, taking into account the percentage of SCOAP3 Articles, as published in the year 2011. The reduction shall be applied to the most recent subscription and/or license fees paid for the affected Journals, adjusted for annual price increases if applicable. |
Example | • Journal A has a list price of $1,000 and all its articles will be SCOAP3 Articles • Journal B has a list price of $5,000 and 50% of of its articles will be SCOAP3 Articles • Both journals are licensed via an unsubscribed collection • The list price value of all journals in the unsubscribed collection (excluding any journals for which a subscription fee is paid) is $100,000 • The Subscriber’s fee for this collection is $10,000 🡺 The value of SCOAP3 Articles in Journals A and B as a percentage of the unsubscribed collection = $3,500 / $100,000 = 3.5% |
🡺 Subscriber’s cost reduction for the unsubscribed collection ≥ $10,000 x 3.5% = $350 If the price of the unsubscribed collection is determined by the sum of a certain percentage of the list price of the journals in the collection, the cost reduction may alternatively be calculated as a given percentage of the list price of the respective journals. In the scenario described above where the subscriber’s price for the journals is 10 % of the list price: 🡺 Subscriber’s cost reduction for Journal A ≥ $100 (all articles in the journal will be SCOAP3 Articles) 🡺 Subscriber’s cost reduction for Journal B ≥ $250 (50% of the articles in the journal will be SCOAP3 Articles) | |||
6 | For a journal package in which articles paid by SCOAP3 are contained within a collection of unsubscribed journals and the unsubscribed journals are made available to the subscriber at no charge | Example | • Journal A has a list price of $1,000 and all its articles will be SCOAP3 Articles. • Journal B has a list price of $5,000 and 50% of its articles will be SCOAP3 Articles. • Both journals are included in subscriber’s license as unsubscribed titles for which no fee is assessed. • The subscriber’s price for the journals is 0 (zero) 🡺 Subscriber’s cost reduction for Journal A ≥ $0 🡺 Subscriber’s cost reduction for Journal B ≥ $0 |
ANNEX II
Example scenarios for access to back years after the implementation of SCOAP3
The journal is fully funded by SCOAP3 (Model 1) | |||
1 | For a given subscription year, subscribers get access to back years | Description | In the current model, the subscription gives access to a fixed number of previous years (i.e. start date is fixed). (Years prior to the fixed date are usually sold separately.) With SCOAP3, previous subscribers should keep the same access as they had in the subscription model. |
Example | Current model in 2012: - Subscription gives access to 2012 and 1995-2011 - Pre-1995 is licensed separately SCOAP3 model in 2013: - 2013 is open access to everyone - Access to 1995-2012 is kept at no additional charge to previous subscribers or is made open access to everyone. - Pre-1995 is licensed separately as it is currently | ||
2 | For a given subscription year, subscribers get access to a rolling window of back years | Description | In the current model, the subscription gives access to a rolling window of back years (oldest years are sold separately) With SCOAP3, current subscribers will keep the same access as they had in the subscription model. |
Example | Current model in 2012: - subscription gives access to 2012 + rolling-window of 10 years (i.e. as from 2002) - pre-2002 is licensed separately SCOAP3 model in 2013: - 2013 is open access to everyone - Access to 2003-2012 is kept at no additional charge to previous subscribers or is made open access to everyone. - Pre-2003 is licensed separately as it is currently | ||
3 | For a given subscription year, subscribers get access to all existing back years | Description | In the current model, the subscription gives access to everything that has been published before. With SCOAP3, current subscribers will keep the same access as they had in the subscription model |
Example | Current model in 2012: - Subscription gives access to 2012 + all previous years SCOAP3 model in 2013: - 2013 is open access to everyone - Access to pre-2013 is kept at no additional charge to previous subscribers or is made open access to everyone. | ||
4 | All back years are already available open access | Description | In case the back year content was already open access, it should remain open access. |
The journal is partially funded by SCOAP3 (Model 2) | |||
5 | For a given subscription year, subscribers get access to some back years (rolling window or fixed number of years) | Description | In this case, whatever the access to back years is in the current model, it stays the same under SCOAP3, unless the publisher decides to publish the archives in open access: - If the subscription to the non-SCOAP3 content is retained, access to the back years should continue - If the subscription to the non-SCOAP3 content is not retained, access to the back years is discontinued. |
Example | Current model in 2012: - Subscription gives access to 2012 + rolling window of 10 years (i.e. as from 2002) - Pre-2002 is licensed separately SCOAP3 model in 2013: - In 2013, 20% of the journal is available open access to everyone (SCOAP3 Articles), 80% is kept under the subscription model (non-SCOAP3 Articles) - If the subscription to the journal is retained, the subscriber continues to receive access to 2003-2012 - If the subscription is not retained, access to 2003-2012 ceases (provided that there are no remaining perpetual rights) - Pre-2003 is licensed separately | ||
6 | All back years are already available open access | Description | In case the back year content was already open access, it should remain open access. |
Annex 6 to the Memorandum of Understanding for the establishment and operation of SCOAP3
Expanded lists of shares of HEP literature by country, calculated with the method set out in Annex 8 and reconfirmed by the Governing Council on December 11th 2016 for SCOAP3 Phase 2 (2017- 2019) and on March 24th 2017 for APS (2018-2019). Amounts are given to an additional decimal place for countries with a share not exceeding 0.1%.
SCOAP3 Phase 2: 2017-2019
(based on HEP literature published in SCOAP3 journals 2014-2015)
Country | Share of HEP | Country | Share of HEP |
Algeria | 0.1% | Jordan | 0.01% |
Argentina | 0.5% | Korea, Republic of | 2.3% |
Australia | 0.8% | Kuwait | 0.02% |
Austria | 0.5% | Lebanon | 0.02% |
Bangladesh | 0.02% | Lithuania | 0.01% |
Belgium | 1.5% | Luxembourg | 0.01% |
Benin | 0.01% | Malaysia | 0.05% |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0.01% | Mexico | 0.6% |
Brazil | 2.5% | Morocco | 0.1% |
Bulgaria | 0.1% | Netherlands | 1.3% |
Canada | 2.1% | New Zealand | 0.02% |
CERN | 2.1% | Niger | 0.01% |
Chile | 0.9% | Nigeria | 0.01% |
China (PRC) | 7.3% | Norway | 0.2% |
Colombia | 0.1% | Oman | 0.01% |
Costa Rica | 0.01% | Pakistan | 0.4% |
Croatia | 0.2% | Poland | 1.5% |
Cyprus | 0.02% | Portugal | 0.6% |
Czech Republic | 0.4% | Romania | 0.1% |
Denmark | 0.5% | Russia | 2.7% |
Egypt | 0.2% | Saudi Arabia | 0.05% |
Estonia | 0.2% | Serbia | 0.1% |
Finland | 0.5% | Singapore | 0.1% |
France | 3.4% | Slovak Republic | 0.05% |
Germany | 9.7% | Slovenia | 0.1% |
Greece | 0.7% | South Africa | 0.5% |
Hong Kong | 0.05% | Spain | 3.1% |
Hungary | 0.4% | Sweden | 1.2% |
Iceland | 0.01% | Switzerland | 2.0% |
India | 4.5% | Taiwan | 1.2% |
Indonesia | 0.01% | Thailand | 0.2% |
Iran | 2.1% | Turkey | 1.0% |
Ireland | 0.1% | United Arab Emirates | 0.05% |
Israel | 1.4% | United Kingdom | 7.1% |
Italy | 5.7% | United States of America | 16.2% |
Japan | 7.1% | Uruguay | 0.05% |
JINR* | 1.1% |
*The share of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) includes shares of its member states: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Cuba, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Mongolia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam.
SCOAP3 APS journals (2018-2019)
(based on HEP literature published in PRC, PRD, PRL 2014-2015)
Country | Share of HEP | Country | Share of HEP |
Algeria | 0.05% | JINR* | 1.5% |
Argentina | 0.6% | Korea | 1.8% |
Australia | 1.2% | Lebanon | 0.05% |
Austria | 0.9% | Luxembourg | 0.01% |
Belgium | 0.7% | Malaysia | 0.1% |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0.01% | Mexico | 0.8% |
Brazil | 3.4% | Morocco | 0.02% |
Bulgaria | 0.05% | Netherlands | 0.9% |
Canada | 3.2% | New Zealand | 0.01% |
CERN | 1.3% | Norway | 0.2% |
Chile | 1.5% | Pakistan | 0.1% |
China (PRC) | 8.4% | Poland | 1.1% |
Colombia | 0.2% | Portugal | 0.8% |
Costa Rica | 0.02% | Qatar | 0.02% |
Croatia | 0.1% | Romania | 0.1% |
Cyprus | 0.1% | Russia | 2.1% |
Czech Republic | 0.4% | Saudi Arabia | 0.05% |
Denmark | 0.8% | Serbia | 0.02% |
Egypt | 0.3% | Singapore | 0.02% |
Estonia | 0.1% | Slovak Republic | 0.05% |
Ethiopia | 0.01% | Slovenia | 0.2% |
Finland | 0.4% | South Africa | 0.3% |
France | 2.5% | Spain | 2.6% |
Germany | 8.9% | Sweden | 0.5% |
Greece | 0.5% | Switzerland | 1.0% |
Hungary | 0.3% | Taiwan | 0.8% |
Iceland | 0.02% | Thailand | 0.1% |
India | 3.8% | Turkey | 0.8% |
Indonesia | 0.01% | United Arab Emirates | 0.05% |
Iran | 1.2% | United Kingdom | 4.8% |
Ireland | 0.1% | Uruguay | 0.05% |
Israel | 0.7% | United States of America | 26.9% |
Italy | 3.5% | Venezuela | 0.05% |
Japan | 6.9% |
*The share of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) includes shares of its member states: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Cuba, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Mongolia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam.
Annex 7 to the Memorandum of Understanding for the establishment and operation of SCOAP3
Template Expression of Interest
Expression of interest to join SCOAP3
This letter expresses the interest of [name of the organization] to join SCOAP3, the consortium facilitating Open Access publishing in High Energy Physics (HEP), with the objectives as outlined in the SCOAP3 Working Party Report, dated April 19th 2007, ISBN 978-92-9083-292-8.
We understand that the financial contribution of [Country] will be determined by the following factors:
• the yearly cost of the SCOAP3 operation, which will be determined by the number and the prices of contracts awarded following the invitation to tender, which will be reissued regularly;
• the fraction of High Energy Physics articles authored in [Country], which for the first year is X.X% and will be recalculated every year;
• there will be an additional provision of maximum 10% to cover countries that, in view of their economic situation, cannot be reasonably expected to contribute at this stage.
We also understand that the maximal annual budget for the SCOAP3 operation is currently estimated at 10 million Euro. Therefore the maximum initial contribution of [Country] for the first year is currently estimated as:
( X.X% x 10 Million Euro) x 1.1 = X.X Euro
[Organisation] will be responsible for the contribution of [Country], to SCOAP3.
It is understood that SCOAP3 will be formally established through a Memorandum of Understanding formalizing, inter alia, the individual contributions of each country and defining the consortium governance.
The contact person for our participation in the consortium will be:
<Name, position, contact details>
Date:
Signature:
Annex 8 to the Memorandum of Understanding for the establishment and operation of SCOAP3
SCOAP3 Working Party Report
Towards Open Access Publishing in High Energy Physics
Report of the SCOAP3 Working Party
The SCOAP3 Working Party∗
S. Xxxxxxx, X.-H. Ellestadb, P. Xxxxxxxxx, X. Friendd, P. Xxxxxxxxx, X. Hananiaf,
X. Xxxxxx-Versilleg, A. Xxxxxxxxx, X. Xxx-Xxxxxxxx, X. Jarroux-Declaisg, M. Xxxxxxx, X.-C. Xxxxxxx, X. Xxxxxxx, X. Xxxxxxxxx, X. Le Diberderg, X. le Masurierk,
A. Xxxxxxxxxxxxx, X.X. Xxxxxxxxxx, S. Xxxxx,m, S. Plaszczynskig, R. Xxxxxxxxx, X. Vigenf,
R. Xxxxx, X. Xxxxxxxx, X. Xxxxxxxx, X. Zioutasn
CERN
Geneva 19 April 2007
ISBN 978-92-9083-292-8
This document is available online at xxxx://xxxx.xx/xx/Xxxxx0XXXxxxxx.xxx
∗ Contact: Xxxxxxxxx.Xxxx@xxxx.xx
a INFN, 00044 Frascati, Italy
b Norges forskningsråd, 0131 Oslo, Norway
c UMIC, 2740-122 Porto Salvo, Portugal
d JISC and University College London, WC1E 6BT London, United Kingdom
e CASPUR, 00185 Roma, Italy
x XXXX, 0000 Xxxxxx 00, Xxxxxxxxxxx
g CNRS, 75794 Paris, France
h DESY, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
i Universität Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
j Universitätsbibliothek Stuttgart, 70043 Stuttgart, Germany
k Science and Technology Facilities Council, SN2 1SZ Swindon, United Kingdom
l MPG, 80539 München, Germany
m On leave of absence from INFN, 80126 Napoli, Italy
n University of Patras, 26500 Patras, Greece
Table of Contents
A word from the Chair 3
Synopsis 4
Background 4
The SCOAP3 model 5
1. Introduction 7
2. The SCOAP3 model 10
The role of SCOAP3 10
One model, two implementations 12
The life-cycle of a SCOAP3 OA article 12
Access to previously published literature 13
Roles of and benefits for publishers 13
Roles of and benefits for funding agencies 14
Roles of and benefits for libraries 14
3. The scope of SCOAP3 15
The definition of HEP articles 15
The DESY classification 15
The HEP publishing landscape 16
Candidate journals for conversion to OA in the SCOAP3 model 17
4. The financing of SCOAP3 20
5. The tendering requirements 24
Selection criteria 24
Requirements 24
Financial aspects 25
Transition aspects 25
6. The next steps 26
Annex 1: 28
Technical requirements for metadata 28
Annex 2: 29
Specifications for providing interoperable usage statistics 29
Glossary 30
Statements in favour of the OA publishing policy 34
A word from the Chair
Dear Reader
This Report concerns the implementation of a process initiated by CERN’s Director- General, Dr. Xxxxxx Xxxxx, today supported by leading actors from the particle physics community, and worked through in detail by members of an international Working Party. The initiative offers an opportunity for the cost-effective dissemination of high-quality research articles in particle physics, enabling use of the new technologies of e-Science across the literature of High Energy physics.
The particle physics community has led the academic world in disseminating pre- prints of research articles through large repositories. This Working Party Report offers a new opportunity for the community to add open access peer-reviewed journals to its publishing outlets through a global conversion of the main corpus of journals to the open access model. The opportunity to improve cost-effective access to peer-reviewed research is there for authors, funding agencies and publishers who respond imaginatively to the proposal.
The Working Party has done its work. It is now in the hands of the different stakeholders to use the opportunity opened up in this Report.
Hopefully the model proposed by the Working Party will inspire other disciplines to start work on the conversion of their literature to open access. However, this model can only act as an example and each subject community will have to make their own analysis and decisions to suit their publishing environment.
It has been a privilege for me to chair the Working Party and to witness the vision and the dedication to detail of its members.
Xxxxxxxxx Friend London, 14th April 2007
JISC Scholarly Communication Consultant
Honorary Director Scholarly Communication University College London x.xxxxxx@xxx.xx.xx
Synopsis
Background
The goal of “Open Access”1 (OA) is to grant anyone, anywhere and anytime, free access to the results of scientific research. The OA debate has gained considerable momentum in recent years. It is driven mostly by two factors:
• The “serials crisis” of ever-rising costs of journals, which has forced libraries
to cancel a steadily-increasing number of subscriptions, curtailing the access of researchers to important scientific literature.
• The increasing awareness that results of publicly-funded research should be
made generally available. This need is amplified by the transformation of research activities towards "e-Science", carried out by a global scientific community linked by strong networks.
High Energy Physics (HEP) pioneered OA through “repositories” containing collections of “pre-prints” freely accessible on the Internet. Today about 90% of HEP pre-prints are available in repositories. Thanks to the speed with which they make results available, repositories have become the lifeblood of HEP scientific information exchange. However, repositories do not perform peer review and may contain only the original versions of articles submitted to journals, and not necessarily the final, peer-reviewed, published versions.
Notwithstanding the success of repositories, there is consensus in the scientific community about the need for high-quality journals that will continue to provide:
• quality control through the peer review process;
• a platform for the evaluation and career evolution of scientists;
• a measure of the quality and productivity of research groups and institutes.
The price of an electronic journal is mainly driven by the costs of running the peer- review system and editorial processing. Most publishers quote a price in the range of 1’000–2’000 Euros per published article. On this basis we estimate that the annual budget for the transition of HEP publishing to OA would amount to a maximum of 10 Million Euros per year. In comparison, the annual list-price of a single “core” HEP journal today can be as high as 10’000 Euros; for 500 institutes worldwide actively involved in HEP, this represents an annual expenditure of 5 Million Euros.
The SCOAP3 model
The proposed initiative aims to convert high-quality HEP journals to OA, pursuing two goals:
• to provide open and unrestricted access to all HEP research literature in its
final, peer-reviewed form;
• to contain the overall cost of journal publishing by increasing competition while assuring sustainability.
In the present proposal, the publishers’ subscription income from multiple institutions is replaced by income from a single financial partner, the “Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics” (SCOAP3). SCOAP3 is a global network of funding agencies, research laboratories, and libraries. Each SCOAP3 partner will recover its contribution from the cancellation of its current journal subscriptions. This model avoids the obvious disadvantage of OA models in which authors are directly charged for the OA publication of their articles.
The financing and governance of SCOAP3 will follow as much as possible the example of large research collaborations and each country will contribute according to the number of its scientific publications. To cover publications from scientists from countries with no funding of HEP research, an allowance of not more than 10% of the SCOAP3 budget is foreseen.
In practice, the OA transition will be facilitated by the fact that the large majority of HEP articles are published in just six peer-reviewed journals from four publishers2. Five of those six journals carry a majority of HEP content. These are Physical Review D (published by the American Physical Society), Physics Letters B and Nuclear Physics B (Elsevier), Journal of High Energy Physics (SISSA/IOP) and the European Physical Journal C (Springer). The aim of the SCOAP3 model is to assist publishers to convert these “core” HEP journals entirely to OA and it is expected that the vast majority of the SCOAP3 budget will be spent to achieve this target. The sixth journal, Physical Review Letters (American Physical Society), is a “broadband” journal that carries only a small fraction (10%) of HEP content; it is the aim of SCOAP3 to sponsor the conversion to OA of this journal fraction. The same approach can be extended to another “broadband” journal popular with HEP instrumentation articles: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A (Elsevier) with about 25% HEP content.
HEP has a natural overlap with related fields such as, but not limited to, astro- particle physics and nuclear physics. The five “core” journals include between 10% and 30% of articles in these disciplines, which will be naturally and logically included in the OA transition. This is in the interest of the readership and promotes the long-term goal of an extension of the SCOAP3 model to these related disciplines. The fractions of “broadband” journals quoted above also include publications in these related disciplines.
Of course, the SCOAP3 model is open to any other, present or future, high-quality journals carrying HEP content. This will ensure a dynamic market with healthy competition and a broader choice.
The annual budget for the SCOAP3 operation will be established through a tendering procedure. The tender and the subsequent contracts with publishers will address the use of OA articles, the conditions for un-bundling OA journals from existing subscription packages, and the reduction of subscription prices for “broadband” journals following the conversion of a fraction of articles to OA.
Provided that the SCOAP3 funding partners are ready to engage in long-term commitments, many publishers are expected to be ready to enter into negotiations along the lines proposed here. The SCOAP3 model could be implemented during 2007. Once leading funding agencies will pledge funds for the financial backing of the consortium, the tendering procedure could take place during summer and the exact budget envelope could be known by autumn. A Memorandum of Understanding for the governance of SCOAP3 and the cost sharing could then be signed by the funding agencies; this will be followed by the establishment of contracts with publishers. OA publishing in HEP could then become reality as of the beginning of 2008.
The example of SCOAP3 will be an important milestone in the history of scientific publishing. It could rapidly be followed by other disciplines and, in particular, by fields related to HEP such as nuclear physics or astro-particle physics.
1. Introduction
Access to past and current research reports is of vital importance for current and future research. A key factor in the efficiency of the research process is therefore easy and affordable access to the work of other individuals and groups working in the same area. The Open Access (OA) paradigm aims to thus empower researchers by granting anyone, anywhere and anytime, free access to the results of scientific research, in general through free availability of the electronic versions of scientific publications on the Internet.
For many academic communities, easy and affordable access to journal articles has been put at risk by the lack of price-related competition in the journals industry. The steady increase of journal prices, far above general inflation rates, has forced libraries to cancel subscriptions for journals their readers need, curtailing the access of researchers to parts of the scientific literature. In some cases universities worldwide have even reached the paradoxical extreme of being no longer able to afford the journals where their scientists publish their own work. This “serials crisis” has now reached a level that is damaging the interests of the scientific communities of readers and authors as well as those of some publishers. Although the current publishing scenario still appears stable, the very existence of some key titles is at stake at a time when the quantity of research output is expected to grow3. A change in the publishing model along the lines proposed in this Report would provide authors with high-quality publishing outlets at prices sustainable both for research funding agencies and for publishers.
Greater value can be achieved not only from the price-related competition the proposal in this Report will introduce into the physics publishing market, but even more from the OA paradigm itself, which will enable greater use of research results, stimulating further research built upon access to high-quality, peer-reviewed, freely available research reports. In addition, the OA model will free up text and data currently locked away in subscription journals for text- and data-mining applications.
For successful publishers, the proposal in this Report offers opportunities to attract the best authors and achieve higher impact factors. The OA model can bring the benefits of higher citations to all stakeholders in research communication, enabling
funding agencies to gain greater exposure for the research they fund and authors to achieve a higher profile.
High Energy Physics (HEP) and related fields have for a long time pioneered the OA principles through the so-called “repositories”, collections of “pre-prints” freely accessible on the Internet. Notable examples are xxXxx.xxx, initiated at Los Alamos and now at Cornell; the SPIRES database, born at Stanford and now numbering many contributors among which DESY in Hamburg; and the CERN Document Server. The fact that today about 90% of HEP pre-prints are available in repositories might make it easier for libraries to cancel expensive journal subscriptions in the field of HEP than in other branches of sciences.
The role of these repositories is to provide access to research articles before publication in peer-reviewed journals, and therefore to enable new results to influence current research at the earliest possible date, speed of availability being an important factor in HEP. Hence, repositories have become the lifeblood of scientific information exchange in HEP. However, repositories do not perform peer-review. They typically contain articles in a preliminary format, i.e. the original version submitted to a journal, and not necessarily also the final, peer-reviewed published version. Furthermore, repositories also contain conference reports, theses, notes and other material, including articles that were never published in refereed journals, either because they were not submitted or because they were rejected. Repositories have thus blurred the traditional boundary between unpublished and peer-reviewed, published literature.
Notwithstanding the success of repositories, there is a consensus in the scientific community that refereed journals will continue to fulfil important functions in future:
• to guide researchers to the most important publications in their field through
the editorial scope of journals and their – perceived or established – importance and prestige;
• to provide quality control through peer review;
• to provide a platform for the evaluation and career evolution of scientists – most importantly, young scientists – for which publications in refereed
journals will remain an important criterion;
• to provide a measure of the quality and productivity of research groups and institutes, often used as an important criterion in decisions about future
funding.
All these are important raisons d’être for journals, which repositories cannot fulfil in their present form.
The motivation for the initiative described in this Report is to produce greater value from the investment funding agencies make in supporting peer-reviewed publication of scientific results in high-quality journals. This initiative aims to maintain both the quality of journal publication and a choice for authors among publication outlets, while introducing an element of competition into the service provided by journals, linking price to value.
The HEP community has effectively spearheaded OA, first with its 50-year old “pre- print culture”, then with the spread of repositories in the last 15 years. It is now ready for a transition to OA publishing. Its relatively small size and its nearly complete overlap between the reader and author communities4 can be of great advantage in this pioneering process.
An appropriate model to achieve this transition of HEP publishing to OA, while maintaining quality and adding greater value, was set out by the Task Force on Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics. This tripartite task force, which comprised representatives from the author communities, from research agencies and from publishers, operated between late 2005 and early 2006. In its Report5, published in June 2006, the task force proposed to establish a Sponsoring Consortium for Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3), a central body which would remunerate publishers for the peer-review service, effectively replacing the “reader-pays”model of traditional subscriptions with an “author-side” funding.
Following the task force Report and the acceptance of its model by representatives from major European stakeholders, a Working Party was established to develop a specific proposal for the creation of SCOAP3, which is described in this Report.
Section 2 describes the SCOAP3 model and the roles of publishers, funding agencies and libraries in the OA publishing scheme, as well as the benefits for the scientific community.
In Section 3 the HEP publication landscape is analyzed and an initial set of five “core” HEP journals is spotlighted as candidates to be entirely converted to OA. The section also treats the case of articles relevant to HEP but dispersed in several
4 This situation is typical of many fields of science, opposite to the very different sizes of the author and reader communities e.g. in the medical and law publishing markets.
5 X. Xxxx et al., Report of the Task Force on Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics, CERN; xxxx://xxxxxxx.xxxx.xx/XXXxxxXxxxx_xxxxxx.xxx
“broadband” journals, some of which are to be converted to OA on an article-by- article basis.
Section 4 discusses an estimation of the SCOAP3 budget envelope and presents a “fair-share” scenario for the financing of SCOAP3 by the countries with an active HEP community. The sharing of costs is based on the affiliations of individual authors contributing to the “core” HEP journals and to selected HEP articles in “broadband” journals.
Section 5 discusses the requirements that will form the basis of a tender to be submitted by SCOAP3 to publishers. These requirements and the subsequent contractual agreements will concern the journal infrastructure, quality and policy of the journal, along with some technical and financial aspects. The section also spells out the intended use of the articles, under OA tenets, by the author and reader communities.
A possible timeline of the actions on the road towards the full conversion of HEP publishing to OA is outlined in Section 6.
After two technical annexes, this Report is concluded by a glossary of technical terms and a list of recent public statements in favour of OA publishing from within the HEP community.
2. The SCOAP3 model
The role of SCOAP3
The SCOAP3 consortium will act as a unique interface between the main stakeholders of the HEP scientific information market: on one side the author and reader communities, which have a large overlap, mostly represented by the same funding agencies and served by the same libraries; on the other side the publishers of high- quality HEP journals. The aim of SCOAP3 is to establish OA to HEP peer-reviewed articles along the lines of the Budapest Initiative6, namely “[The] free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software,
6 xxxx://xxx.xxxxx.xxx/xxxxxxxxxx/xxxx.xxxxx
or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself“.
At the time of writing, SCOAP3 is an initiative emanating from:
• several European funding agencies, among which CNRS and CEA (France), INFN (Italy), MPG (Germany) and other funding bodies from Greece, Portugal, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland;
• the two largest European particle physics laboratories, CERN and DESY;
• national and international library and other consortia such as GASCO (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), INFER (Italy), COUPERIN (France), JISC
(U.K.), ABM-utvikling (Norway).
Within the next few months SCOAP3 aims to federate similar agents worldwide.
The SCOAP3 model will only be successful if partners from all countries contributing to HEP literature become members of the consortium. Indeed, a pillar of the model is to ensure OA to all HEP articles appearing in high-quality journals through this co- ordinated effort.
SCOAP3 will be financed primarily by HEP funding agencies, laboratories and libraries, from funds currently used for journal subscriptions. However, it will also engage other bodies interested in the broad and free dissemination of scientific information. Each country will contribute to SCOAP3 according to its share of the authorship of HEP articles as described in Section 4. For the SCOAP3 model to be successful, it has to represent a stable, viable and sustainable alternative to subscriptions vis-à-vis its partners. It is therefore expected that the SCOAP3 operation will follow the financial blueprints of large scientific collaborations laid down in corresponding Memoranda of Understanding.
An important asset of the SCOAP3 model is that it will centralize all OA expenses that will therefore not have to be directly borne by authors and research groups. This contrasts with so-called “author-pays” OA options, offered by many publishers but of scarce success in HEP, which are perceived as an even higher barrier than subscription charges, in particular for theoretical physicists from small institutions who actually produce the vast majority of HEP articles.
Manuscripts from authors without academic affiliation or authors from countries with no funding of HEP research and which, therefore, cannot be reasonably expected to contribute to the Consortium at this time, will be treated like all other articles submitted for publication. This choice has obvious ethical reasons: namely