What are some of the benefits it is hoped the model will achieve?
The institution-specific return on investment in SCOAP3 is expected to be the containment of costs required to access HEP literature, along with: • A transparent view of the costs of peer-review, editing, and article dissemination. • An opportunity to contain the costs of HEP publishing. • A more complete electronic information environment to support the needs of HEP research and beyond. • A closer relationship with the worldwide research community to effect positive change in scholarly publishing. • A demonstration of how international cooperation can support the advancement of sustainable Open Access to research. • Concrete data on the viability of a unique Open Access publishing model that can inform the evolution of future potential models. • The opportunity to automatically populate digital repositories with Open Access peer-reviewed material, or create local archives of all SCOAP3 material.
