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OPERAS welcomes INRAE

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We are pleased to welcome the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE) as a new supporting member of the OPERAS community in 2026.

As the leading research organisation dedicated to these three scientific fields, INRAE addresses these challenges through an interdisciplinary approach. The institute brings together the largest French‑speaking community in the social sciences applied to agriculture, food and environment. It will use research, innovation, and support for public policies as tools to guide the emergence of sustainable agricultural and food production systems. The institute aims to carry out science dedicated to life, humans, and the Earth that uncovers solutions to our most pressing concerns.

INRAE is also a major actor in scholarly publishing, with a portfolio of around twenty journals. It is a founding member of the publishing house Quæ, which will celebrate its twentieth anniversary in 2026, and of the Alliance of French Public Scientific Publishers (Alef), established at the end of 2024.

INRAE shares with OPERAS a “commons”‑based approach, which conceives science as a common good and promotes free and equitable access to reading and publishing for all audiences, particularly in the Global South. Both organisations align with the vision of the Diamond OA model, considered the most relevant framework to support this approach and to enable scientific communities to regain ownership of the means of scholarly communication.

INRAE and OPERAS are already cooperating within the Diamant’AIR project, led by the University of Lorraine. This project aims to develop a “Diamond resource centre” dedicated to supporting journals based in the Lorraine area, before scaling up this local experiment to the national level through the interconnection of similar territorial initiatives, in order to contribute to the consolidation of a national ecosystem serving all scientific disciplines.

“INRAE is delighted and proud to join the OPERAS community to promote the development of an independent and distributed European scholarly publishing ecosystem, grounded in diversity, complementarity and trust; a robust and resilient ecosystem, capable of adapting to the needs of all scientific communities in order to serve them better, and which contributes to the dissemination and appropriation of scientific knowledge beyond the academic sphere alone,” says Emmanuelle Jannès‑Ober, Deputy Director of the Directorate for Open Science at INRAE and co‑author of the Jussieu Call for Bibliodiversity.

INRAE will contribute to the Artificial Intelligence and Open Access Business Models working groups.

We are looking forward to further collaborations. 


French version

Nous sommes heureux d’accueillir l’Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement (INRAE) en tant que nouveau supporting member de la communauté OPERAS en 2026.

Premier organisme de recherche spécialisé sur ses trois domaines scientifiques, INRAE aborde ces défis de manière interdisciplinaire. L’institut héberge le collectif francophone le plus important en sciences sociales appliquées à l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement. En proposant par la recherche, l’innovation et l’appui aux politiques publiques de nouvelles orientations pour accompagner l’émergence de systèmes agricoles et alimentaires durables, INRAE ambitionne d’apporter des solutions pour la vie, les humains et la terre.

INRAE est aussi un acteur majeur de l’édition scientifique, à travers un portefeuille d’une vingtaine de revues. Il est l’un des membres fondateurs de la maison d’édition Quæ, qui fête ses vingt ans d’existence en 2026, et de l’Alliance des éditeurs scientifiques publics français (Alef) créée fin 2024.

INRAE partage avec OPERAS l’approche « par les communs », qui pense la science comme un bien commun, promeut la gratuité et l’équité des accès à la lecture et la publication scientifique pour tous les publics, en particulier ceux du Sud. Les deux organisations s’alignent sur la vision du modèle Diamant : il est le plus pertinent pour soutenir cette approche, dans une dynamique de réappropriation par les communautés scientifiques des moyens de la communication scientifique.

INRAE et OPERAS coopèrent au sein du projet Diamant’AIR, porté par l’Université de Lorraine. Son ambition est de développer un centre de ressources diamant dédié à l’accompagnement des revues du site lorrain. Puis de porter cette expérimentation locale à l’échelle nationale, notamment à travers l’interconnexion de dispositifs territoriaux similaires, pour contribuer à la consolidation d’un écosystème national au service de toutes les disciplines scientifiques.

« INRAE est heureux et fier de rejoindre la communauté OPERAS pour promouvoir la mise en place d’un écosystème indépendant et distribué de l’édition scientifique européenne, basé sur la diversité, la complémentarité, la confiance ; un écosystème robuste, résilient, capable de s’adapter aux besoins de toutes les communautés scientifiques pour mieux les servir, et qui contribue au rayonnement et l’appropriation des connaissances scientifiques, au-delà de la seule sphère académique », nous dit Emmanuelle Jannès-Ober, directrice adjointe de la Direction pour la science ouverte d’INRAE et co-autrice de l’Appel de Jussieu sur la bibliodiversité

INRAE contribuera au groupe Artificial Intelligence et Open Access Business Models.


OPERAS

OPERAS is the Research Infrastructure supporting open scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in the European Research Area. Its mission is to coordinate and federate resources in Europe to efficiently address the scholarly communication needs of European researchers in the field of SSH. OPERAS’ aim is to make Open Science a reality for research in the SSH and achieve a scholarly communication system where knowledge produced in the SSH benefits researchers, academics, students and more generally the whole society across Europe and worldwide, without barriers.

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