Publication guidelines

Acknowledgement

For any publication or presentation resulting from any access project or Lasers4EU cross-facility activity, it is mandatory to acknowledge the EC support according to:

“Funded by the European Union under HEU-GA 101131771 Lasers4EU. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. The European Union cannot be held responsible for them.”

In addition, please add the ID of the access project or the WP of the cross-facility activity just after Lasers4EU in brackets.

Open Access

Lasers4EU scientists are obliged to provide open access to publications resulting from their research carried out in the context of Lasers4EU. We also encourage users who benefitted from Lasers4EU-funded transnational access to publish their results with open access.

What is Open Access?

Open Access means free online access to research literature, mainly to publications in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, without copyright restrictions imposed by publishers.

Why Open Access?

Any kind of research is based on previous work and, therefore, depends on the availability of scientific knowledge, information and data created by this work. Access to the output of research is, therefore, essential for science and for progress in society in general.

How to provide Open Access?

‘Green’ open access: Authors publish in any journal and then self-archive a version of the article (e.g. preprint) for free use in an institutional or other open access repository or on an open access website.

‘Gold’ open acces: Authors publish in open access journals that provide open access to all articles, usually on the publisher’s website.

Hybrid open access: Authors publish in subscription journals that provide ‘gold’ open access for individual articles when the author(s) pay(s) an open access publishing fee.

Please, check your rights for reusing your paper before publishing! For guidance, see www.openaire.eu/research-data-and-legal-issues.

Open Access links

• Open Research Europe, an open access publishing platform for the publication of research stemming from Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe and/or Euratom funding across all subject areas. The platform allows beneficiaries to comply with the open access terms of their funding and offers researchers a publishing venue to share their results and insights rapidly and facilitate open, constructive research discussion.
• Sherpa/Romeo, information on publisher copyright policies and self-archiving
• Laserlab-Europe on Zenodo
• OpenAIRE webpage (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe; provides, e.g., model letters/amendments to publishing agreements)
  • OpenAIRE: Open Science in Horizon Europe Proposals
  • OpenAIRE: Factsheet for Researchers (Horizon 2020)
  • OpenAIRE: Open Science Requirements in Horizon Europe in Practice
    • Webinar on ‘Horizon Europe Open Science requirements in Practice’ (slides and recording regularly updated)