This should have been big news!

Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in English:
https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/news/detail/joint-commitment-to-strengthening-open-research-europe
https://www.fccn.pt/en/atualidade/fct-assina-declaracao-fortalecimento-open-research-europe-ore/
and one more, NWO from 🇳🇱 considers joining:
https://www.nwo.nl/en/news/nwo-endorses-joining-open-access-platform-open-research-europe-ore
Why is this BIG? 1/4
#openscience #openaccess

Joint Commitment to Strengthening Open Research Europe

In December 2024, ten leading European research funding organizations, including the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), signed a Statement of Intent to jointly support and further develop the Open Research Europe (ORE) publication platform.

Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

1. This development essentially entails that all authors in the participating countries now have a venue where they can publish #openaccess without any fees.
2. The vision is to develop Open Research Europe (ORE) "as a collective non-profit open access publishing service for the public good".
https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/3603e219-6a65-11ef-a8ba-01aa75ed71a1/language-en

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Open research Europe - Publications Office of the EU

Publications Office of the EU
@brembs ANY authors? Or (as with Wellcome's and Gates's systems) only those in receipt of grants?

@mike

My understanding is that the agreement covers any author in the country of the funder, grant or not,

@brembs @mike I’m not sure about that!

Although for me it has some sense: as they state, the ORE platform is there to make “ it easy for European Commission beneficiaries to comply with the open access terms of their funding”. So as infraestructure is not infinite, it might be understandable to prioritize those that fulfill the initial aim of the platform.

This should be compatible with the appearence of other public platforms with a more general scope.

@marcelcosta @mike

The wording you cite is from the instantiation pre-2026. My understanding is that starting 2026, all authors in the supported countries can publish there.

Maybe they are afraid not to be able to afford their own success, which is why there is no big announcement? 😆

No idea.