The European Commission has added its support to a call to the scholarly publishing community urging them to make Covid-19 and coronavirus publications and the data supporting them immediately accessible via public repositories to support the ongoing public health efforts. The request applies to all articles published to date as well as future articles for the duration of this crisis and is fully in line with the EU’s support for “Plan S”, a...

The European Commission has awarded a contract for the setting up of an open access publishing platform for scientific articles as a free service for Horizon 2020 beneficiaries. The launch of the ambitious EU open access initiative is planned for early 2021.   The platform will be a peer-reviewed publishing service to support Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe beneficiaries to publish their research in open access free of charge (i.e. without...