Europe Backs Open Publishing

Geneva2.5 million researchers gain free publishing services on one platform.

Funders from 11 countries back it, including Germany’s research foundation and Switzerland’s national science foundation.

Authors post a preprint, reviewers sign public reports, and the platform then flags it “peer reviewed” on the same site.

Stanford metascientist Mario Malički warned that running it at scale “becomes a major undertaking of who runs the checks.”

The expanded platform launches in early November, and indexing services have not said how they will treat it.

Sources: Nature