Open Research Europe (ORE)
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Open Research Europe (ORE) was launched by the European Commission in 2021 offering an open access publishing platform for EU-funded research, ensuring high-quality, transparent publication processes. Since its inception and launch, ORE has provided researchers with an alternative publishing venue without author-facing fees that is focused on immediate publication of their outputs followed by quality assurance through open peer review. Starting in autumn 2026, ORE enters a new phase, hosted and operated by CERN, driven and co-financed by a consortium of research funding and performing organisations, along with the European Commission.
ORE aligns with a number of principles of Diamond Open Access (OA) publishing and fulfils five out of the six operational criteria for Diamond OA journals in EDCH’s Diamond Discovery Hub (DDH). OPERAS, through its European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH), works in partnership with the ORE consortium to strengthen outreach and community engagement across Europe, working towards new interactions between ORE and the Diamond OA journal community. In this way, we intend to foster trust in open publishing, and contribute to a more resilient, no-fee scholarly communication landscape in Europe and beyond.