Publishing scheme ‘to serve all of Europe’

Bloc’s open-access platform will be for more than just recipients of EU funding

A free-to-use open-access publishing platform commissioned for use by recipients of EU R&D funding will be designed so it can serve the needs of all European researchers, according to the company that will build it.

F1000 Research was named as the winner of a protracted procurement process to build the Open Research Europe platform on 20 March. The company’s managing director Rebecca Lawrence said ORE would “work for all researchers across Europe, going beyond recipients of [EU] funding”.