The Open Research Europe platform offers 2.5 million researchers full editorial services on the platform at no charge. Credit: Michael Szebor/ Nature

Science funders and research organizations in Europe are joining forces to expand open-access publishing and make the peer-review process more transparent, with the aim of spurring change in scholarly communication.

By early November, the European Commission will roll out an expanded version of its Open Research Europe (ORE) platform , which uses a ‘publish, review, curate’ model. In this approach, preprints are posted, reviewed openly — with the identity of the reviewers and their reports made public — then flagged as ‘peer reviewed’ on the same platform.

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Joining the ORE are funders from 11 countries, including the German Research Foundation DFG and the Swiss National Science Foundation, as well as three major research organizations, including the French National Centre for Scientific…