Spain will joinas a national member, of the public open scientific publishing platform Open Research Europe (ORE), promoted by the European Commission. The decision to enter the platform has been made by the Open Science Government Commission, chaired by the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Universities, Juan Cruz Cigudosa.
With this step, one of the commitments of the National Open Science Strategy (ENCA) is fulfilled, which advocates the diversification of publication mechanisms for research results. Spain will be represented at the ORE by the FECYT (Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology).
Open Research Europe is an open access scientific publishing platform, developed from open source software, that promotes open science practices.
Among them, free reading and publication of research results, open review of the quality of the publication by experts and early dissemination of all research results. It is a space for publicly funded research, an alternative to commercial publishing services.
The European Commission launched the ORE in 2021 to facilitate the free circulation of knowledge in the European Research Area, and currently has works published by authors from 350 institutions and 45 different countries.
Publication in ORE allows results to be disseminated openly throughout the entire research process, in addition to facilitating open and transparent peer review. In addition, it recognizes a wide range of scientific products as publishable results, gives visibility and recognition to reviews as citable contributions, eliminates fees for authors and guarantees the legal reuse of content through open licenses.
With the entry of Spain and another dozen countries into the ORE, scheduled for the end of 2026, the scientific publication process will be changed, by reinforcing this alternative route to paid journals.
On the other hand, this step will represent a decisive advance towards a collective governance model in which national funding agencies and European research entities participate.
The platform will be jointly funded and governed by participating organizations, which will reinforce transparency, equity and quality in scientific communication. Initially, the configuration of this phase will last five years, until 2030.
In this new stage, in which In addition to the FECYT, the CSIC will participatethere will also be the Austrian Science Fund, the Agence Nationale de la Recherche and the Center National de la Recherche Scientifique of France, the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space of Germany, the Ministry of Universities and Research of Italy, the Research Council of the Netherlands, the Research Council of Norway, the Fundação para a Ciência ea Tecnologia of Portugal, the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency, Swedish funding agencies, and the Swiss National Science Foundation.
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will operate the service, and the ORE model as a crowdfunded service will be open to research organizations from around the world to join.
Its mission is Extend the international character of science through an open infrastructure and distributed, on the values of sustainability, equity, diversity and inclusion, as well as quality and scientific integrity.
