CERN To Host Europe's Flagship Open Access Publishing Platform (home.cern)
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- News link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/03/26/2219203/cern-to-host-europes-flagship-open-access-publishing-platform
- Source link: https://home.cern/news/news/cern/cern-host-europes-flagship-open-access-publishing-platform
> A little over a year ago, 10 European research organizations [4]announced that they would add their support to Open Research Europe, to broaden eligibility beyond only those researchers funded by the EU research program. Earlier this year, RPN [5]reported that this group had expanded further and that Cern was set to host the broadened version of ORE, currently provided by the publisher F1000.
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> On March 26, Cern itself finally announced the news, saying it will "provide the technical and operational infrastructure" for the broader version. It said this will build on its "longstanding experience in developing and maintaining open science infrastructures and community-governed services." [...] In its own announcement, the Commission said ORE will have a budget of 17 million euros for 2026-31, with the EU providing 10 million euros.
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> Since it launched five years ago, ORE has published more than 1,200 articles. Cern said the platform is "expected to support a growing number of research outputs each year." Last month, experts told RPN they thought uptake of the increased eligibility will depend on how the newly participating national organizations engage with their communities. Eleven members of Science Europe, a group of major research funding and performing organizations, are part of the expansion.
[1] https://home.cern/news/news/cern/cern-host-europes-flagship-open-access-publishing-platform
[2] https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/
[3] https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe-infrastructure-2026-3-cern-confirms-it-will-run-expanded-fee-free-publishing-platform/
[4] https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe-infrastructure-2025-1-europe-launches-hub-to-boost-diamond-open-access-publishing/
[5] https://www.researchprofessional.com/news-articles/article/1417964
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Cool stuff! (Score:3)
This looks very promising. Researchers have been complaining since a long time about the fact that publicly-funded, published research was behind paywalls and the alternatives were rather undewhelming when it came to cost for the authors (and their institutions) and peer review methodology. The new approach is quite interesting. In [1]"how it works" [europa.eu] it says that the publishing will be immediate after submission and the peer-review will be done *after* publishing, with all article versions being available and linked together. This will be for European Commission-funded researchers, but I hope they will widen the scope later on.
[1] https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/about/how-it-works/
Good. Now an EU backup of archive.org (Score:2)
I have not heard of any offshore backups of archive.org.
I think that is essential, to remove the risk of a crazy US government destroying it.
Maybe CERN could be the site for one ?
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Are you alright?