SCOAP3 selects Marsteller

Senior Librarian Matt Marsteller has been selected for a 3-year position on the Governing Council of SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) effective immediately. Matt joins three other representatives in the U.S. delegation to the 45-member council, which meets at CERN and directs the actions of the international consortium. Marsteller is liaison for Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mathematical Sciences and Physics at Sorrells Engineering & Science Library. He has been an enthusiastic contributor to the work of the consortium since its founding in 2014, when CMU joined with other U.S. libraries to support worldwide open access publishing in particle physics. "It is my hope that SCOAP3 will open up communication lines between particle physicists and the world at large, overcoming the impact of paywalls that historically have prevented equitable or even reasonable access to the literature in this discipline," Marsteller said.