PhysMath Central Blog : SOAP: Providing a clearer view of the potential of OA
SOAP: Providing a clearer view of the potential of OA
Last month I visited CERN (that's me in front of the CMS experiment) to attend the kick-off meeting of the SOAP project. SOAP (Study of Open Access Publishing) is a 2-year, EU-funded project to study current open access business models and perform a comprehensive survey of attitudes to open access from researchers across all disciplines.
The project will address the need for fact-based evidence of what might and what might not work. The goal of the SOAP project is to document different paths leading to an orderly transition to open access publishing and delineate a number of directions along which publishing may evolve in the future.
This study is being coordinated by CERN, along with the Max Planck Digital Library, Science and Technology Facilities Council and commercial publishers such as Sage, Springer and BioMed Central. Results will be made public in early 2011.
PhysMath Central Blog : SOAP: Providing a clearer view of the potential of OA
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