European Commission Announces Official Launch of Open Research Europe, New Platform Powered by F1000 Research

From the European Commission:

Today, the European Commission launched Open Research Europe, a publishing platform for scientific papers that will be accessible to everyone. The platform will present the results of research funded by Horizon Europe, the EU research and innovation programme for 2021-2027, and its predecessor, Horizon 2020.

Open Research Europe will give everyone, researchers and citizens alike, free-of-charge access to the latest scientific discoveries. It directly addresses major difficulties often associated with publishing scientific results, including delays and barriers to the re-use of results and high costs. The platform is an optional service for Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020 beneficiaries so that they can comply with their funding requirements for immediate open access, at no cost to them.

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Currently, 91% of all publications and 95% of all peer-reviewed publications funded by Horizon 2020 are open access, extremely high percentages globally. Nonetheless, the ambition is that all scholarly publications stemming from the research funding of the Commission are open access. In particular, the aim for Horizon Europe is that publications will be openly accessible from the moment they are published, which the platform enables.

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The Commission has tendered the service and hired an experienced contractor, F1000 Research.

Direct to Complete Launch Announcement

Additional Resources

Direct to Open Research Europe Platform

Introductory Blog Post

FAQs

Infographic

Public Tender Documents

“A New ERA for Research and Innovation” (2020)

See Also: European Commission Awards Contract to F1000 For Setting Up an Open Access Publishing Platform (March 22, 2020)

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