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Date: Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 7:13 AM

SCOAP3 is on track to meet its target start date of January 1st, 2014.

At a recent meeting in May, the international SCOAP3 partnership
reaffirmed its commitment to SCOAP3. The initiative, with the full
support of CERN, is now ready to move to its next step: signing
contracts with publishers and establishing the consortium.

In recent weeks, SCOAP3 partners and publishers have been working hard
to make the large-scale conversion of High-Energy Physics subscription
journals to Open Access a reality. Reductions to current subscriptions
costs have been calculated, and for many libraries and countries the
process is nearing completion

In a parallel development, APS  has restructured its Open Access
strategy, and, regrettably, Physical Review C and Physical Review D
are no longer among the journals participating  in SCOAP3.

In partnership with 11 publishers and learned societies
[http://scoap3.org/scoap3journals.html], CERN and the SCOAP3 community
 of hundreds of libraries worldwide continue their ground-breaking
journey.  Together, this collaboration will provide Open Access to
thousands of High-Energy Physics articles published in 10 journals.
This will include the first-of-its-kind 'flip' to Open Access of 4
entire subscription journals.

SCOAP3 is looking forward to welcoming new partners in the Americas,
Europe and Asia.

The HTML text of this announcement is available at

http://scoap3.org/news/news100.html