We’re dedicated to making science open and accessible to the global scientific community

EMBL’s databases and software are freely available to the scientific community wherever possible, and we encourage open access publication. 

The EMBL Open Science Policy aims to improve societal outcomes from EMBL’s scientific programme through openness, transparency, and the open publication of results in the form of research articles, software and data.

The policy covers public availability of research outputs and services, research assessment and fair attribution of credit for EMBL researchers.

Research assessment across the organisation values all research outputs, and uses not only publications as a metric for success. This is in compliance with the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) agreement signed by EMBL.