My experience with Open Research Europe, a scientifically rigorous publishing service for researchers involved in Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe projects

1. OPEN RESEARCH EUROPE
AN UNOFFICIAL VIEW

2. DISCLAIMER
The opinions expressed in this presentation are
solely those of the author and do not represent
- An official position of Open Research Europe or
F1000, to which the author is not affiliated
- An official position of the European Commission (or
another EU institution)

3. WHAT IS
OPEN
RESEARCH
EUROPE?
Source: European Commission Factsheet

4. Source: European Commission Factsheet

6. WHAT IS
OPEN
RESEARCH
EUROPE?
Source: ORE Twitter Account (14 September)
https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/blog/celebrating-100-publications
• The Commission tendered the service and hired an
experienced contractor, F1000 Research.
• Went live 24 March 2021:
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_21_1262
• Currently hosts 121 articles as of 12 October 2021

7. MY CASE
HTTPS://OPEN-RESEARCH-
EUROPE.EC.EUROPA.EU/ARTICLES/1-42

8. TIMELINE
 Submission of draft article in online system: 26.02.2021
 Feedback 18.03
 ORE clarification request on ethics approval process for the study
 ORE clarification request data licence (I originally put CC-BY-SA but ORE requests CC-BY)
 Feedback 01.04
 ORE Language checks & edits – need to replace tables (since they were originally provided as pictures)
 ORE Check regarding underlying data
 ORE Check permissions for acknowledgements
 ORE Check how consent from the interviews was obtained
 ORE Invitation to provide 5 reviewers in online tool
 Feedback 08.04.
 ORE Follow up question regarding underlying data
 ORE Follow up question on consent
 ORE Approval of changed licence (CC-BY)
 14.04. Message that article has been accepted
 19.04. Article sent in pdf by ORE for final check from author (completed the same day)
 23.04. article published as pre-print

9. MY IMPRESSIONS
Swift and well-informed pre-
checks – fairly fast publication
process for pre-print whilst
ensuring quality
1
Peer Reviewer Suggestion Tool
did not provide good
recommendations for my article
2
Peer Review (after pre-print) took
longer than expected, but is still
faster than in many traditional
journals
3

10. POSITIVE
PEER REVIEW
IS NOT A
GIVEN

11. POLICY RECOMMENDATION
 ORE is part of the European Research Area (ERA)
 As part of ERA, add national funders from the EU
Member States to the list of those eligible to
publish
COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN
PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL
COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS A new ERA for
Research and Innovation, p. 14

12. CONTACT INFO
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/in/dspichtinger/