Open science

Nearly fifteen years after the Budapest Initiative and the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge, in 2016 the European Commission committed itself to Open Access to scientific publications and research data, which will become mandatory for work that has received funding from the Horizon Europe programme or the ERC. In France, Article 30 of Law 2016-1321 of 7 October 2016 allows researchers to assert a right against publishers to deposit their publications in open access as long as they are the result of research activity financed at least half by public funds. More recently, a coalition of research funding agencies (cOAlition S) launched an action plan to promote open science: Plan S. Its aim is to make publicly accessible, in journals or on open access platforms, scientific publications from research funded by public money granted by national or European research agencies or funding bodies, published after 1 January 2020.

In this context, the Peer Community In (PCI) aims to build an alternative system of scientific publication – free for both authors and readers – based on Open Access, peer review and transparency. The CBGP supports this initiative, which represents a unique opportunity for authors to comply with the principles of Plan S.

CBGP also publishes the magazine Acarologia, an open access journal publishing original research results on all aspects of acarology since 1959. Acarologia is an open-minded journal that publishes short notes, data papers, and may consider longer reviews.