How have publishers reacted to the SCOAP3 proposal?
All publishers of high-quality HEP journals have been involved in consultative conversations with SCOAP3 since the beginning of the project. All have demonstrated a pro-active and open attitude toward the HEP community’s desire for Open Access to research, including allowing or promotingself-archiving (the APS even hosts a mirror of the popular arXiv repository) and offering Open Access to subsets of the literature at no cost to authors. This is the case with the European Physical Journal C, which offers Open Access for all letters and articles in experimental High-Energy Physics, or Elsevier’s Nuclear Physics B and Physics Letters B, which have pledged to publish Open Access with no fees all articles describing results of the Large Hadron Collider. SISSA/IOP’s Journal of High Energy Physics and Journal of Instrumentation offer low-cost Open Access institutional memberships that have resulted to over a third of their content to be Open Access, with no damage to their subscriptions. The
