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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3. As we outline in our article, such a decentralized public infrastructure can be highly resilient against not only natural or political disasters, but also "against corporate capture and surveillance technologies":
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.230206
4. If/when funding agencies realize that maintaining funding for legacy journals directly counteracts the goals they signed onto with their support of ORE, the legacy journals stand to suffer massive drops in revenue.

What can YOU do?

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#academicchatter

Here are two easy things YOU can do:

#1 Every academic supporting #openscience and #openaccess should consider ORE as their primary publishing venue and ask colleague/co-authors to do the same.

#2 Point your librarian, institutional leaders, funding agencies towards the documents linked above and ask them to support ORE, too.

#3 Make *everyone* and every institution aware that they now have a choice: support parasitic corporations or the public good. By their actions you shall know them!

@brembs This is great news, but from your thread I don't see that ORE actually exists yet... Or does it? If so, can you please include in the thread the link?

(If it doesn't exist yet, I can't make it my primary publishing venue...)

@skyglowberlin

Oh, sorry, it's been around for a few years, so I thought everyone on here knows it already:

https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/

https://www.ore.eu/

As the press releases say, the transition is scheduled to happen in January 2026.

@brembs I'm not sure I had seen it.

But I'm afraid after looking at several pages, I'm still confused as to what "the transition" is. I mean, I guess from ORE to ORE 2.0, but what does that mean?

Does it mean that soon any researchers in Europe can publish there, instead of only people reporting results from Horizon (etc) grants?

Looking everything over, I don't particularly like the "you can go back and edit the paper at any time in the future" aspect. And I think there are some serious structural issues with open review (yes, anonymous review also has problems, but they are different problems). Before I knew about those two aspects, I thought "ok, in the future, I'll send nearly everything there!" Now I'm less excited, but I'm still interested to try it out.