Advancing a publicly owned and not-for-profit scholarly communication ecosystem based on the princip

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the significant benefits of transparent and open research practices, especially in expediting the development of safe and effective vaccines. [...] ‘Action Plan for Diamond Open Access’, launched in March 2022 and since then garnering endorsement from numerous key organisations and individuals in the public research and innovation sector), a request for more dependable and comparable data on the state of scholarly communication (cf. [...] LIBER was established in 1971 with the aim of promoting and advocating for the interests of research libraries, facilitating collaboration and knowledge sharing, and contributing to the advancement of research and scholarship. [...] Its core missions are to build and sustain a science-based community through networking and exchange amongst its members, to communicate with the wider public about the key role of funda- mental research in knowledge-based societies through outreach and community activities, and to promote and advocate excellence-based, bottom-up, frontier science funding in Europe, as exemplified by the European. [...] The Agency, a public institution under the authority of the Ministry in charge of Research, aims to fund and promote the development of fundamental and targeted research, technical innovation and technology transfer, as well as partnerships between research teams from public and private sectors at national, European, and international levels.