To see a paper in 5 days, in a professional layout, is quite astounding. Two useful referee reports appeared in less than two weeks, supporting the notion that peer review can be done openly.

Wellcome Open Research enables authors to take control of what they publish and accelerates the dissemination of their research.

The Gates Foundation is dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value and everyone deserves the opportunity to lead a healthy and productive life. To solve the challenges of the 21st century, we must accelerate open access to high-quality research on health, education, and economic development. Gates Open Research is designed to ensure that the research we fund can be of immediate benefit to society.

The mission of the MNI’s new Tanenbaum Open Science Institute is to develop and spread a new model of discovery and innovation based on the usage of Open Science principles as accelerators, for the benefits of patients and community, and for the development of best practices globally. MNI Open Research is designed to ensure that our community can quickly share their discoveries.

HRB Open Research will help researchers to publish all findings quickly, easily and responsibly. This will increase transparency, reduce research waste and allow reproducibility of results. Ultimately HRB Open Research will help build more trust in the research process.

AAS Open Research is an opportunity for scientists in Africa to publish their research quickly and on a fully accessible platform. It provides attributable peer review and enables African scholars to benefit from transparent intellectual interchange. We believe that the platform represents the optimal format for dissemination of scientific research, not just on the Continent, but in the world.

All too often the results of research are published slowly, held behind paywalls, or never published at all. By launching this platform the participating charities are helping to ensure that all results of the research they fund can be rapidly and widely shared to limit duplication of effort, accelerate the progress of research and most importantly bring benefits to patients sooner.

The Israel Science Foundation (ISF) is committed to the promotion and support of excellence in all fields of academic research, including the exact sciences, life sciences and medicine, social sciences and the humanities. We firmly believe that open publication and data sharing with the research community and the broad public plays a key role in increasing the impact of scientific research. We sincerely expect that the peer-reviewed and broadly accessible ISF Open Research platform will provide an excellent exposure for ISF-funded science to wide audiences, world-wide.