CERN to host new phase of Open Research Europe

CERN will provide the technical and operational infrastructure for a new phase of Open Research Europe (ORE), the open access publishing platform supported by the European Commission and a consortium of European research funders and research organisations. NWO has also recently joined this consortium.

With the launch of the renewed platform later in 2026, ORE will become available to researchers affiliated with institutions in participating countries. For the Netherlands, this means that researchers at Dutch research organisations will be able to use the platform regardless of whether they hold an NWO grant. Publishing will remain free of charge for both European Commission-funded authors and authors from participating countries.

ORE was launched by the European Commission in 2021 as a no-fee open access publishing platform. It uses a publish-review-curate model: articles are first checked for integrity and compliance, then published openly and peer reviewed openly. Review reports are made public, and articles that successfully pass review are curated into subject-specific collections.

CERN will host the platform using the open-source software Open Journal Systems (OJS), while governance and editorial oversight will remain with the ORE consortium. In this way, ORE presents itself as a community-led alternative to traditional scholarly publishing models, aligned with the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access.

According to CERN, the platform has published more than 1,200 articles since its launch, involving over 6,300 authors from more than 3,000 institutions worldwide. The new phase is intended to broaden access to the platform further and strengthen open access publishing across Europe.