This presentation will discuss how arXiv and SCOAP3 have changed the landscape of scholarly communications, albeit in different ways, and the impact of those changes. The arXiv physics preprint server celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2016. SCOAP3, the Open Access (OA) publishing initiative in high energy physics, will begin its second 3-year phase of operations in 2017. These two OA publishing initiatives represent fundamental evolution, each in their own way, as part of the larger scholarly publishing ecosystem. ArXiv and SCOAP3 have many characteristics in common. They are both international collaborations, both represent the discipline of physics, both require global cooperation, both aim to make research results fully and freely available to everyone, both have zero direct costs to authors and both represent new ways of disseminating the outputs of research. There are also fundamental differences between arXiv and SCOAP3. They accomplish their goals via different phases of the publishing workflow – arXiv focuses primarily on journal article preprints, while SCOAP3 enables the publication of the final peer reviewed version of journal articles. ArXiv does not work directly with libraries or publishers, while SCOAP3 partners with both libraries and publishers to support authors worldwide. Data will be presented on the economics of these two OA initiatives, along with next steps in their evolution.

ArXiv and SCOAP3: Evolution of open access and funding models

253rd National Meeting (2017)

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