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Today (24 March), the European Commission launches its Open Research Europe publishing platform for scientific papers. The site will provide free-of-charge access to everyone: researchers, businesses and citizens alike. The platform will publish the results of research funded by Horizon Europe, the EU research and innovation programme for 2021-2027, and its predecessor, Horizon 2020.

Open Research Europe gives everyone, researchers and citizens alike, free-of-charge access to the latest scientific discoveries. It directly addresses major difficulties often associated with publishing scientific results, including delays and barriers to the re-use of results and high costs.

The response to the coronavirus pandemic has shown the potential of open science to increase collaboration, illustrating how immediate access to publications and data have been crucial in helping researchers to find new treatments, diagnostics and vaccines. 

Currently, 91% of all publications and 95% of all peer-reviewed publications funded by Horizon 2020 are open access. Nonetheless, the ambition is that all scholarly publications stemming from the research funding of the Commission are made publicly available for free. In particular, the aim for Horizon Europe is that publications will be openly accessible from the moment they are published.

Open science ensures that publicly funded research and innovation systems are made more widely available, helping to share results, promoting innovation and improving access.  

Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth Commissioner Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for said: “We need to accelerate scientific discovery through more collaborative and open research practices. By helping researchers to publish in open access, Open Research Europe removes the barriers to knowledge flows and cultivates scientific debate.”

The platform will be managed by F1000, a London-based company.

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