Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics

Under the terms of the agreement, authors retain copyrights and the articles published under SCOAP3 will be in perpetuity under a CC BY license.

[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Participating countries in the agreement sponsor SCOAP3 journals through the consortium, and contribute according to their scientific output.

[12] In 2012, SCOAP3 reached agreements with 12 subscription journals to make their articles openly accessible.

[18][19] The following journals participate currently, or have participated in the first phase of the consortia: In 2022 SCOAP3 entered into partnerships with leading academic publishers, including Cambridge University Press,[23] Oxford University Press, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, and World Scientific, to make over 100 textbooks available open access.

[25][26][27] Currently, 44 countries as well as 3 intergovernmental organisations (CERN, IAEA, JINR) are members of the consortium.