An expert group, set up to support the policy development of the European Commission on Open Science, published in January 2019 a report on the ‘Future of scholarly publishing and scholarly communication’, later opened to feedback by the members of the High-Level group of the Open Science Policy Platform (OSPP) that also advises and supports the Commission in developing policies for the transition to open science. Through a Position Paper, EuChemS has outlined its vision of the role and function of different actors in the scholarly communication system; the future of the evaluation of research and the types of scholarly contributions, venues and paths for dissemination; the future of business models; and finally concrete measures actors, such as learned societies, can put into place to move forward. The position paper is available here.