SCOAP3 Webcast - Register by June 9

[Jennifer McLennan <jennifer@arl.org>]

SCOAP3 - An invitation to create change
A Web cast from SPARC and ACRL

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

9AM Pacific | 11AM Central | 12PM Eastern (90 minutes)

Registration is free. RSVP by June 9 at
http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/event_registration.shtml

In follow up to the recent release of a new set of Frequently 
Asked Questions on the SCOAP3 initiative, SPARC and ACRL are 
pleased to host Dr. Salvatore Mele, Head of Open Access at CERN 
and spokesperson for SCOAP3, at a live Web cast to explore the 
process of committing to the consortium, establishing its 
governing board, the project's conditions for the call for 
tender, and to answer remaining questions. Please join us.

SCOAP3, the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access in Particle 
Physics Publishing, currently depends on expressions of interest 
from the U.S. library community before the experiment can move 
ahead. The proposal is currently supported by more than 130 U.S. 
libraries, by the Canadian Research Knowledge Network, and by 
libraries, consortia and funding agencies in 18 other countries.

SCOAP3 has a unique potential to transform scholarly 
communication. The initiative aims to convert the literature of 
an entire field to Open Access by re-directing current 
expenditures in journal subscriptions. It has so far collected 
pledges for a total of 8.8 Million $/year from partners in 21 
countries, corresponding to 63% of its worldwide budget envelope.

In the U.S., a growing number of leading libraries and library 
consortia have already signed an Expression of Interest pledging 
to re- direct their current expenditures in High-Energy Physics 
journals to the SCOAP3 initiative, if successful. These pledges 
total 2.5 Million $/year. About 1 Million $/year are still needed 
to complete the expected U.S. contribution and enable the 
initiative to move forward.

Please join us for this special event to learn more about how 
your library can help change the model for scholarly publishing 
in High Energy Physics.

Register by June 9 at 
http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/event_registration.shtml

For more information, see: The SPARC-ACRL FAQs at 
http://www.arl.org/sparc/publications/papers/scoap3_09april.shtml

The SCOAP3 web page at http://scoap3.org and

The SCOAP3 expression of interest for U.S. libraries at 
http://tinyurl.com/scoap3us

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