5th SCOAP3 Forum held on June 18th 2025
The 5th SCOAP3 forum was held on June 18th 2025, delivered in two identical sessions to enable the broadest possible global participation for SCOAP3-communities across all time zones.
This year’s forum was focused on the launch of Phase 4 of SCOAP3, and the introduction of the new open science elements mechanism designed to incentivize participating publishers to improve their open science practices.
The forum’s chair Ianko Lopez (Spain) moderated the sessions which included: an introduction to the SCOAP3 Phase 4 contracts; the introduction the open science elements mechanism; a presentation of the results of the first evaluation period; the perspective of a partner of SCOAP3, namely JISC from the UK; and the perspective of Crossref as a core service listed in the evaluation criteria.
A recording of the forum (morning session), the Q&A (combined morning and afternoon sessions) and all presented slides are now available at: https://scoap3.org/support/