Since its launch in 2021, Open Research Europe (ORE) has gone from strength to strength. 2024 was another year of success and exciting developments for ORE – providing improved services to authors, readers, and the wider research community.
This blog post highlights the key changes and achievements of Open Research Europe in 2024.
In December 2024, 11 prominent research funding and performing organizations in Europe signed a Statement of Intent to collaboratively fund Open Research Europe (ORE) and confirm its not-for-profit mission for the public good.
What does this significant milestone in the development of ORE mean for you and your research? Such a collective commitment will reinforce ORE as a robust and impactful open access publishing venue. More generally, opening up ORE to a more diverse community of researchers, authors, readers and users of research results will also contribute to enhancing equity, diversity, and transparency in scholarly publishing. Let’s peek behind the curtain.
Integrity, quality and transparency are at the forefront of modern scientific research. Using an innovative and unique publishing model, Open Research Europe can uphold these principles.
In this blog, you will discover what sets us apart from traditional publishing venues, and dive into the benefits of publishing on Open Research Europe.
To help you prepare for our prepublication research quality checks, this blog post suggests some considerations to make when submitting your work, in order to maximize your chances of being published in Open Research Europe.
Data can be a difficult topic for researchers in any field, but it raises additional questions for those working in humanities and social sciences (HSS). In this blog post we debunk some common data-sharing misconceptions within HSS and its associated fields.
Researchers often encounter unique challenges that shape how their work is conducted and published. For those in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) one significant hurdle is finding open resources. Moreover, the options for openly publishing their research are limited. Open Research Europe addresses these issues by providing a platform for HSS researchers to publish their European Commission-funded results, either as standalone works or within a Gateway.
Reproducibility is vital for ensuring that research results are accurate and reliable, demonstrating that findings are not due to bias or chance. Reproducibility refers to the ability of other researchers to achieve the same results using the same dataset and analysis as the original study. Research is reproducible when other researchers can consistently replicate the results again with high reliability.
Open Research Europe presents an interview with European Research Council (ERC) grantee Veli-Matti Karhulahti, one of the co-authors of ‘A primer for choosing, designing and evaluating Registered Reports for qualitative methods’ published in ORE’s Research Ethics and Integrity Collection.
Open data has been rapidly gaining momentum over the past decade, with funders and institutions alike introducing data sharing policies to align with frameworks like the FAIR Data principles. Open Research Europe follows the FAIR Data principles and implements a data policy fully aligned with the requirements of Horizon Europe.
To demonstrate open data in action, we’re highlighting the benefits of open data and data-sharing success stories from real Open Research Europe authors.
Being able to measure and demonstrate the impact of your research is important. Funding is often tied to the reach and impact of research as funders want to achieve the best return on their investment. Focusing on impact allows researchers to see the bigger picture and purpose of research rather than the process.
