Open Research Central

The open access movement has demonstrated that “openness” is a benefit to the creation, dissemination, and reuse of knowledge.

Through a variety of policies and initiatives, there is renewed momentum for sharing research outputs as part of a more connected and collaborative open research ecosystem.

However, there remains a need for consensus around how best to deliver a research dissemination system that maximises the benefits for both science and society, and the researchers upon which such a system depends.

Open Research Central (ORC) is a not-for-profit organization that aims to change the paradigm for primary research dissemination by bringing together key representatives across the scholarly ecosystem to define standards, build a movement to expand adoption of these standards, encourage the community to provide researchers with services that meet these standards and promote these standards.

To build further momentum and adoption globally of open research publishing approaches, the ORC Board wish to secure resource for 18 months to underpin more significant fund raising efforts to enable ORC to deliver on its mission, to develop and start to put into place a sustainability plan, and to support the Board in the day-to-day running and management of ORC.