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Bengaluru Roadmap and Action Plan on Diamond Open Access

15/05/2026

The Bengaluru Roadmap and Action Plan is the outcome document of the 3rd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access, held in Bengaluru, India, from 2-6 February 2026.

Developed through a collective process led by the International Oversight Committee, the document reflects the deliberations of 347 participants from 36 countries, who came together to advance a shared global framework for scholarly communication as a public good, free for authors and readers, community-governed, and built on the principle that scientific knowledge belongs to everyone.

At its core, this document calls for a structural shift in how publicly-funded knowledge is produced, evaluated, and shared. Addressed to governments, research funding and performing organisations, institutions, and scholarly communities, the Roadmap defines six priority Action Areas, including:

• Integrating Diamond Open Access into national policy and legal frameworks
• Redirecting publishing expenditure toward community-governed infrastructures
• Reforming research evaluation systems so that they recognise Diamond Open Access publications, multilingual scholarship, and community-governed venues
• Strengthening shared infrastructure and interoperability
• Recognising and supporting the human labour behind scholarly communication
• Promoting linguistic diversity and marginalised knowledge systems.

This Roadmap is the result of collective effort and commitment and invites all actors to translate its recommendations into concrete actions.