The Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) is committed to collaboratively funding Open Research Europe (ORE) - a non-profit open access publishing platform launched in 2021 by the European Commission.
Greater equity, diversity and transparency in scientific publishing
The collaboration and funding agreement, to be signed in 2025, will ensure that from 2026, and for a period of 5 years, all national authors will be able to publish their articles in immediate open access and free of charge on this platform. In this way, the eligibility for publication on ORE is expanded beyond the initial universe of beneficiaries of EU funding programs.
This commitment opens up ORE to a more diverse community of researchers, authors, readers and users of research results, increasing equity, diversity and transparency in scientific publishing.
10 entities from 8 European countries
In addition to the FCT, there are 9 European entities that are part of the initiative and are committed to supporting the SRB, as signatories of the Declaration of Intent: the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the French National Research Agency (ANR), the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Research Council of Norway (RCN), the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS), the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (FORMAS), the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE) and the Swedish Research Council (VR).
This collaboration will also allow these organizations to participate in the governance of the ORE and contribute to the efforts to create a pan-European partnership, which will innovate in open access publishing and foster high quality research.
In Portugal
Publication on ORE is in addition to the open access publishing possibilities already available through transformative agreements with important international publishers, signed by b-on, the digital service of the Foundation for Science and Technology, developed by FCCN.
