High-quality, transparent, open, trustworthy and equitable scholarly publishing
European Union Council conclusions
General Secretariat of the Council 
23 May 2023

The European Union Council (…)

REITERATES the importance of accelerating the transition to open science to improve research quality, efficiency and impact by promoting transparency, accessibility, diversity, reusability, reproducibility and trustworthiness of research results, that open access to scholarly publications, including their reuse, is one of the core elements of an open science system, and that action is needed to ensure that scholarly publishing supports these aims;

HIGHLIGHTS that immediate and unrestricted open access should bethe norm in publishing research involving public funds, with transparent pricing commensurate with the publication services and where costs are not covered by individual authors or readers;

ACKNOWLEDGES that publishing practices vary across disciplines, and EMPHASISES that some publication formats, such as monographs, books and long-text formats, especially in the social sciences and humanities, should continue to be supported, while promoting open access publishing and allowing for a diverse range of formats to co-exist, and for publishing in a
range of languages;