CTK HAS BECOME THE NATIONAL CONTACT POINT FOR THE INITIATIVE SCOAP3 FOR OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING IN THE FIELD OF PARTICLE PHYSICS
SCOAP3 (ang. Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) is a partnership that makes scientific publications in the field of particle physics open access at no cost to the authors. It is managed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Currently in SCOAP3 more than 3,000 institutions (libraries, universities, research organisations and funders) from 47 countries, regions or territories are involved. Slovenia joined the partnership in 2025 and the national focal point is Central Technical Library at the University of Ljubljana (CTK).
SCOAP3 enables free publication in leading journals in the field of particle physics, with the costs of publishing articles in open access covered by contributions from participating partners. In this way, authors are enabled to publish their work without financial or administrative obstacles. Partner funds for Slovenia are provided by CTK.
Immediate open access to articles is provided, authors retain material copyrights, and all their articles are also accessible in the SCOAP3 repository.
CTK provides advice on publishing and selecting journals for open access publication. For more information please visit CTK website.
More information on how SCOAP works3 can be obtained by email: tadej.mauhar@ctk.uni-lj.si