Björn BrembsSep 3, 2025

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)
Show threadBjörn BrembsSep 3, 2025

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
Show threadMike Taylor 🦕Sep 3, 2025
@brembs ANY authors? Or (as with Wellcome's and Gates's systems) only those in receipt of grants?
Show threadHendrik Jan HoogeboomSep 3, 2025

edit: this restriction is about to change.

@mike @brembs
It seems you are right. The how-it-works page of open-research-europe states:
"Each publication must have at least one author who has been, or still is, a recipient of a Horizon 2020 and/or Horizon Europe grant."

Show threadMike Taylor 🦕Sep 3, 2025
@Jochgem @brembs I just HATE this kind of pointless discrimination. "We want to advance since, but not ALL science, just our own science". You'd think self-funding would be welcome, but quite the opposite.
Show threadNabil-Fareed AlikhanSep 3, 2025
@mike @Jochgem @brembs maybe we can argue with ukri to do the same. Nihr already has it's own platform.
Show threadMike Taylor 🦕
@happykhan @Jochgem @brembs That would be very welcome!
Sep 4, 2025 at 8:36amWeb