Open Access Article Publishing Charges
The platform (publishing and technology services) is implemented through a four-year framework contract (starting March 2020), awarded to F1000 Research through a public tendering process. F1000 Research (partnering with LIBER, the Global Young Academy and Eurodoc) will receive up to 1,296,316 EUR to adapt the existing F1000 Research platform to the publishing requirements of the European Commission and maintain it, develop the policies and business processes of the platform and devise and implement a sustainability and communication strategy for the platform.
The European Commission will also centrally pay a publication fee (article processing charge) to F1000 Research for each article published on Open Research Europe. This means that authors are not charged, but are asked, on submission, to provide details of their Horizon 2020 grant to verify their eligibility.
The European Commission will pay a flat rate of 780 EUR (VAT non-taxable) per article to F1000 Research for each article published, regardless of the type or length of the publication, with a maximum 5% increase for 2023 and 2024 prices.
F1000 Research implements the following price breakdown for Open Research Europe, based on Information Power’s Plan S Price Transparency framework breakdown scheme.
Open Research Europe works collaboratively with its Scientific Advisory Board and partners to reach Horizon 2020 beneficiaries to ensure the platform and the editorial policies reflect the research interests and values of their communities. Open Research Europe engages and educates the community to support them in publishing a wide range of academic outputs. The platform supports article campaigns and thematic gateways to maximize the impact of published articles and create communities of interest around specific content published on the platform.
Articles submitted to Open Research Europe first undergo an editorial triaging process which assesses article scope and eligibility, checks for plagiarism, and whether the underlying data and software have been made available. Before, during and after these checks the in-house editorial team also respond to editorial enquiries and provide information to the authors on what is required for the full prepublication checks to begin.
Open Research Europe in-house editorial team provide a comprehensive service that consists of a set of rigorous pre-publication checks to ensure that all the editorial policies and reporting and ethical guidelines are adhered to. This service includes in-house data and software support where the team advise and guide authors how to ensure their data is FAIR and can be accessed from the information included in the data availability statement. Upon acceptance, the production team ensure articles are made available in industry standard formats (PDF, HTML, XML) so that all content is fully text and data minable. Before an article is published, the production team provide proofs and perform quality checks on citations and references, image resolutions, any included multimedia, as well as ensuring persistent identifiers are assigned and resolve correctly.
The editorial team identify and invite expert peer reviewers, and verify any reviewer suggestions made by authors. When a review is submitted, the editorial team check the review and its accompanying peer review status and publish the reviews and names of the reviewers alongside the article. All peer review enquiries and peer review support (including helping find suitable reviewers) are managed by our in-house editorial team.
Once an article is published, Open Research Europe has a dedicated page on each article that displays article-level metrics for authors and readers to see and measure the impact of their work. Open Research Europe ensures all articles are fully discoverable. All content is syndicated to Zenodo and preprints are discoverable through Europe PMC. Open Research Europe will also syndicate content with institutional repositories across Europe in the future. For articles that pass peer review, Open Research Europe will send content to all the major bibliographic indexers across all subject areas (e.g. PubMed, PubMed Central, MEDLINE, Scopus, Web of Science JSTOR, RePEc etc.) when the platform has been accepted for indexing by these major databases. All content is preserved in perpetuity by archiving it through Portico. For readers, all articles can be live-tracked and easily found through customisable article alerts and feeds.
Open Research Europe has a scalable, custom-built publishing infrastructure supporting the open research publishing process including registration, submission, publication, post-publication peer review and article versioning. This technology is regularly improved and customized to meet the needs of authors and reviewers to ensure high quality publications. Open Research Europe regularly innovates its publishing technology to make articles more dynamic, interactive and reproducible and its content is widely discoverable.
Open Research Europe uses social media, digital media, monthly newsletters and webinars to promote and highlight authors work. There is a proactive communications team that collaborates with authors, institutions and journalists to communicate authors work to both scientists and society. Open Research Europe will have a dedicated blog for showcasing published articles and to highlight work from Horizon 2020 research programs. The Open Research Europe marketing team promotes articles and initiatives through editorial campaigns and events to specifically highlight authors work.
Open Research Europe welcomes open debate and discussion and supports and manages an open and transparent commenting functionality on published articles for registered users. Open Research Europe provides resources to authors and reviewers to help conduct research, promote research and track the impact of their work.