New Collaboration Expands Access to Open Publishing

A large number of research organisations in various countries are joining forces to provide long-term funding and further develop the Open Research Europe (ORE) publishing platform. From Sweden, Forte, Formas, and the Swedish Research Council are contributing funds. For Swedish researchers, the collaboration means increased opportunities to publish their results with immediate open access and transparent peer review.

“This is an important step for open publishing in Europe. We at the Swedish Research Council are very pleased to support the joint funding for Open Research Europe together with Formas and Forte. Through this collaboration, we are strengthening the long-term preconditions for open science and providing Swedish researchers with new opportunities to publish their results openly and at no cost,” says Director General Katarina Bjelke.

Swedish Chair of ORE

“We are also particularly pleased that one of our colleagues, Karla Anaya de Carlsson, has been entrusted with the role of Chair of the ORE Funders Group—an important step for open publishing in Europe”, says Katarina Bjelke.

The publishing platform has until now been operated by the European Commission, but responsibility for both funding and continued development will now be shared among research organisations in several countries. The platform’s host organisation will be the research centre CERN (Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire – European Organisation for Nuclear Research).

“Open Research Europe demonstrates what is possible when research funding bodies take joint responsibility for the future of scientific publishing. Through ORE, we are together building a sustainable and transparent infrastructure for open science across Europe, benefiting both the research community and the general public,” says Karla Anaya de Carlsson, Chair of the ORE Funders Group.

Free for Users—Both to Publish and to Read

Through this new collaboration, all researchers in the participating countries will have the opportunity to publish their scientific results openly and without fees, regardless of their funding body. The results will also be free and openly accessible to anyone who wishes to engage with the research.

The collectively funded platform will be open for publication starting in the fall of 2026.

Unified Swedish Support

From the Swedish side, Forte, Formas, and the Swedish Research Council are providing funding to ORE. The initiative has the support of both the Competitiveness Council’s conclusions during the Swedish EU Presidency in 2023 and national stakeholders such as SUHF and the National Library of Sweden.

The publishing platform ORE External link.

News on CERN’s website External link.

More about the ORE platform and Sweden’s transition to an open science systemis available on the website Openscience.se External link.