Germany is joining the open-access publishing platform Open Research Europe (ORE), which is being developed into a European infrastructure. This was announced by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR). Launched by the European Commission in 2021, the platform has so far been open only to researchers from EU-funded projects. From autumn 2026, researchers from the participating countries – including Germany – will be able to publish their results free of charge, regardless of whether their projects receive funding.
European consortium – Transparent peer review – Strengthening Diamond Open Access
ORE will in future be supported by a consortium of eleven European countries. In Germany, the BMFTR will act as the contractual partner, whilst the DFG will be responsible for implementation and will participate in further development. Participation is initially planned until the end of 2030. A key feature of ORE is open peer review: peer reviews are publicly accessible and make scientific discourse visible. The aim is to make quality assurance more transparent and to place greater emphasis on the scientific content of individual publications. Technical implementation is carried out by CERN. ORE is a non-commercial infrastructure and reinforces the Diamond Open Access model, under which neither authors nor readers incur any fees.
Further information
- DFG press release: New infrastructure for open science: Germany joins Open Research Europe
- CERN press release: CERN to host Europe’s flagship open access publishing platform