Open Research Europe was launched by the European Commission as a publishing platform offering immediate open access and transparency in peer review. Articles are published without a paywall, and both authors and readers can use the platform free of charge.
“ORE is one of several new open-access publishing initiatives. These initiatives aim to address the unsustainable financial situation currently prevailing in scientific communication. With a new base at CERN and long-term funding from European research groups, ORE is an important player in the change to a more open scientific community,” says Kristoffer Holmqvist, Head of the Department of Scholarly Communication at the University Library.
The background to this is that the platform has recently secured a new long-term host: the CERN research centre. At the same time, several European countries are providing joint funding to further develop ORE. This means that more researchers can benefit from the initiative – including Swedish researchers.
Sweden’s state research funding bodies, the Swedish Research Council, Formas and Forte, are among the contributors.
All articles published on ORE are assigned a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). A DOI is a unique and permanent identifier for a digital object. A digital object is usually a scientific article, but it may also be, for example, a dataset, a report, or a book chapter.
“If you want to know more about open peer review or indexing, or if you need help understanding how the publication process works on ORE, please contact your faculty library,” says Helena Stjernberg Tagesson, a librarian at the Faculty of Social Sciences Library and the University’s representative on the national ORE working group.
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