Approval for CERN to host Open Research Europe (ORE), a non-profit open access scientific publishing platform, has been granted by the CERN Council in December 2025. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will host the platform beginning in autumn 2026. Open Research Europe provides a free publishing venue for a wide range of publicly funded research. The platform was initiated by the European Commission in 2021 and is supported by a consortium of national research funders from eleven CERN Member States to support rapid and transparent dissemination of publicly funded research.
The platform, which was originally limited to research funded by Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe, will now also serve authors whose national funding agencies participate in the funding consortium. CERN will provide the technical and operational infrastructure for the platform over a five-year pilot phase, while governance matters will remain with the ORE consortium. The platform follows a publish–review–curate model, under which research outputs are made openly accessible after initial checks for integrity, policy compliance, and eligibility, followed by transparent peer review. Reviewer reports and reviewer identities are publicly available, and articles that successfully pass peer review are curated into discipline-specific collections.
CERN’s involvement builds on experience in open science infrastructure, including Zenodo, Invenio, and SCOAP³. As the host, CERN will provide a neutral, reliable, and sustainable operational environment for the platform. For the CERN community, the platform will offer an additional open access publishing option, particularly for interdisciplinary and collaborative research that does not align with established journals. The platform is intended to complement existing publishing platforms and does not replace SCOAP³, which remains the primary open access route for high-energy physics publications. Hosting the platform will deepen collaboration between CERN, the European Commission, and national research organizations and strengthen CERN’s role in academic communication. CERN is committed to supporting open access to publicly funded research.
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