OPERAS and OpenAIRE have been recognised as part of the second wave of candidate nodes joining the EOSC Federation, through the development of the EOSC Scholarly Commons Node. For OPERAS, this recognition represents an...
OPERAS has joined ALLEA, EIFL, IFLA, LIBER and SPARC Europe in issuing a joint statement on Open Science, in the context of the consultation on the European Research Area Act. Together, the six organisations represent thousands of European universities, research-performing organisations, libraries, scholarly infrastructures and academies of sciences and humanities.
We are deeply honoured to announce that OPERAS was appointed as new Host Secretariat of cOAlitionS. OPERAS shares cOAlition S’ commitment to full and immediate Open Access and has a long-standing role in strengthening open scholarly communication in Europe through community building, policy coordination, and shared infrastructure.
We are pleased to announce PRIME – Progressing the Research Infrastructure towards Maturity & ERIC Status, a new project that marks a decisive step in the consolidation of OPERAS as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC).
Starting in the second half of 2026, ORE will enter a new pilot phase, operated by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) and will be co-financed by a consortium of research funding and performing organisations, along with the European Commission. As part of this new phase, OPERAS Research Infrastructure will work in partnership with the ORE consortium to strengthen outreach and community engagement across Europe. OPERAS will contribute its expertise in multilingual, inclusive, and community-driven scholarly communication to help ensure that eligible researchers and institutions are aware of and able to benefit from the platform.
AEGIS-OA (Activate European Guidance and Incentives for Sustainable Open Access publishing), a new EU-funded project under the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme, officially kicked off on 19-20 March 2026 in Brussels. The project aims to strengthen a transparent, sustainable, and high-quality open access scholarly publishing ecosystem in Europe by building on and expanding the services of the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH), a program hosted by OPERAS.
On the Week of the French Language and Francophonie (March 17-20), we are delighted to announce the publication of the FrenchScienceCommons corpus on Hugging Face. This open, structured corpus, entirely dedicated to scientific production...
English version French version English version We are pleased to welcome the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE) as a new supporting member of the OPERAS community in 2026. As...
English version French version English version We are glad to welcome the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH) as a new ordinary member of the OPERAS community in 2025. Founded in 1963, the...
English version Czech version English version We are glad to welcome Masaryk University, from the Czech Republic, as a new ordinary member of the OPERAS community in 2025. Masaryk University (MU) is a leading...
Welcome to the OPERAS Blog!
OPERAS is the European Research Infrastructure for the development of open scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities.
Visit our website: operas-eu.org
More
