Rapid & Transparent Publishing

Rapid & Transparent Publishing

Fast publication and open peer review for research stemming from Horizon 2020 funding across all subject areas.


Articles submitted now will be published at the formal launch of this platform in March 2021

We are accepting submissions for these subject areas:

Natural Sciences
Engineering and Technology
Medical and Health Sciences
Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences
Social Sciences
Humanities and the Arts

  • Enables researchers to publish any research they wish to share, supporting reproducibility, transparency and impact.
  • Uses an open research publishing model: publication within days of submission, followed by open invited peer review.
  • Includes citations to all supporting data and materials, enabling reanalyses, replication and reuse.

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Benefits for Researchers

  • Optional service with no author fees, no administrative burden and automatic compliance with open access requirements.
  • Submissions published rapidly as preprints after a set of thorough prepublication checks.
  • Transparent peer-review: authors suggest appropriate reviewers and engage in an open and public dialogue with their peers.
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Benefits for Research

  • Rapid open access publication enables others to build upon new ideas right away, wherever and whoever they are.
  • Removes obstacles to collaborative research through data sharing, transparency and attribution.
  • Shifts the way research and researchers are evaluated by supporting research assessment based on the intrinsic value of the research rather than the venue of publication.
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Benefits for Society

  • Maximises the value and impact of Horizon 2020 projects by enabling publication of all aspects of Commission funded research.
  • Makes research results fully open access, freely available and fully text and data minable for researchers as well as citizens.
  • Accelerates the progress of research meaning new insights, innovations and treatments become available to those who need them more rapidly.

“Open Research Europe is a great step forward for EU R&I programme beneficiaries and research communities from all scientific, social science and humanities fields. The new publishing platform will enable them to fully embrace Open Science meeting their publishing needs and openly share, use and find linked publications and data.”

Mariya Gabriel
Commissioner, European Commission