The Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) is committed to collaboratively financing the 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 financing agreement, to be signed in 2025, will ensure that, from 2026 onwards, 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. This expands eligibility for publication in the ORE beyond the initial universe of beneficiaries of EU funding programs.
This commitment opens 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 that are committed to supporting the ORE, being 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 Agency for Research and Innovation (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 efforts to create a pan-European partnership that will innovate in open access publishing and foster high-quality research.
In Portugal
The publication in ORE joins the possibilities for open access publishing already provided, through transformative agreements with important international publishers, signed by b-on, the digital service of the Foundation for Science and Technology, developed by FCCN.
