Operational Members
cOAlition S is an international consortium of 28 research funding and performing organisations who are committed to making full and immediate Open Access to research publications a reality. cOAlition S has developed Plan S whereby research funders will mandate that access to research publications that are generated through research grants that they allocate, must be free to access on the day of publication.
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing global community. Committed to ensuring that quality content is openly available online for everyone, DOAJ has become a trusted part of the global open access infrastructure. Its mission is to increase the visibility, accessibility, reputation, usage, and impact of peer-reviewed open access research journals worldwide, regardless of discipline, geography, or language. As an independent, non-profit foundation, DOAJ works to build an equitable and diverse scholarly ecosystem where trusted research can be accessed without barriers.D
EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) is a not-for-profit organization that works with libraries to enable access to knowledge in developing and transition economy countries in Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe and Latin America. In a highly networked digital world our activities help people to access and use information for education, learning, research and sustainable community development.
Digital technology has revolutionized education and created new opportunities to share information, to communicate and to learn. However, billions of people around the world are still unable to reap the benefits due to factors such as the high subscription costs of electronic scholarly content and legal barriers to accessing, using and sharing information, or because they do not have access to technology.
The Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology, F.S.P. (FECYT), is a public foundation under the Ministry of Science and Innovation. Its mission is to catalyse the relationship between science and society, promoting the growth of Spanish scientific culture and fostering knowledge transfer through outreach, education, training, information, and advice. It collaborates with other agents and stakeholders in the Science, Technology, and Innovation System to internationalize Spanish science, generate and analyse data, and provide support in scientific information management and open science promotion.
Its vision is a society that actively engages with and benefits from a science-informed perspective within an open and inclusive Science, Technology, and Innovation System. This framework enables progress in critical thinking and personal and civic development.
OpenEdition is a comprehensive infrastructure for electronic publishing in the humanities and social sciences, created and operated by OpenEdition Center. It brings together complementary platforms dedicated to journals (OpenEdition Journals), book series (OpenEdition Books), research blogs (Hypotheses) and academic announcements (Calenda). In 2019, OpenEdition received more than 6.5 million visits per month from all around the world. OpenEdition’s mission is to encourage the development of high-level electronic publishing on an international scale. OpenEdition was born from a very simple idea: the various actors in academic publishing were being drowned out by the vast ocean of the web and their efforts were being dispersed. Grouped around a central federating platform (OpenEdition) and specialized platforms (OpenEdition Journals, OpenEdition Books, Calenda, Hypothèses), other economies of scale are possible. A critical mass of content, technologies and skills means our role is not limited to publishing academic documents online, but also to offering training in new publishing practices, reaching out internationally, developing a sustainable economic model and regular technological innovation.
OPERAS AISBL is the non-profit organisation that supports the OPERAS Research Infrastructure. The Research Infrastructure, already on the ESFRI Roadmap, has more than 50 member organisations from all over Europe and beyond. It serves and reaches out to researchers in Social Sciences and Humanities and thanks to this community, has built global expertise in the field of scholarly publications, such as work on standardisation and publications of different types of scholarly outputs.
The OPERAS AISBL is a not-for-profit international association (AISBL) established under Belgian law. It was created, in 2019, by the core members of OPERAS, the Research Infrastructure supporting open scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in the European Research Area to coordinate their activities and provide the legal framework to operate the Research Infrastructure. Its mission is to coordinate and federate resources in Europe to efficiently address the scholarly communication needs of European researchers in the field of SSH.
Science Europe is the association that represents leading public organisations funding or conducting high-quality, pioneering scientific research across Europe. By uniting the expertise of some of the world’s largest and most renowned research bodies, it works collaboratively to advance the frontiers of scientific production and ensure that research benefits society. It advocates for science and the scientific community, contributing to the development of the European Research Area and influencing the global scientific agenda.
SPARC Europe is one of Europe’s long-standing voices advocating for unfettered access to research and education. SPARC Europe is a Dutch foundation committed to delivering on the promise of open access, open science, open scholarship and open education. Since our founding in 2003, we have been driving Open Access to research forward by influencing open policies in Europe and working with European institutions such as the European Commission, Europe’s research institutions and universities, and organisations with allied Open agendas. Its mission is to make Open the default.