Study of Open Access Publishing
The shift from print-based to digital documents demands innovation from scientific publishers. Several radical new Open Access Publishing (OAP) business models have already emerged. The SOAP consortium represents key stakeholders such as publishers, funding agencies and a broad spectrum of research disciplines and aims to study these models, survey researchers and suggest scenarios.

Coordinator: CERN, Switzerland

CERN Contact: Salvatore Mele

EU funding: 0.9 M€ over 2 years

1 March 2009 - 28 February 2011