Diamond Open Access refers to a scholarly publication model in which journals and platforms do not charge fees to either authors or readers. Diamond Open Access journals are community-driven, academic-led, and academic-owned publishing initiatives. Serving a fine-grained variety of generally small-scale, multilingual, and multicultural scholarly communities, these journals and platforms embody the concept of bibliodiversity. For all these reasons, Diamond Open Access journals and platforms are equitable by nature and design.
cOAlition S supports all publishing models that allow for full and immediate Open Access, including non-commercial, community-owned models. With like-minded partners, we co-create and promote a set of actions to strengthen Diamond Open Access and help advance fair and equitable scholarly publishing.
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DIAMAS, CRAFT-OA and PALOMERA work towards an equitable future for scholarly communication, with academic communities at the centre. In a joint webinar, organised on June 20, 2023 (1 p.m. CEST), the three HORIZON Europe-funded projects will present this vision and introduce each project’s area of focus. The discussion will demonstrate the projects’ common goal for open and equitable scholarly publishing.
While DIAMAS focuses on developing common standards, guidelines and practices for the Diamond publishing sector, CRAFT-OA and PALOMERA have different aims. The former looks at the IT systems behind journal platforms to help them upscale, professionalise, and reach stronger interoperability. The latter, PALOMERA, is developing actionable recommendations and concrete resources to support and coordinate aligned funder and institutional policies for Open Access books.
In the session, DIAMAS will be placed in a broader context, displaying how we collaborate with other actors in the Open Access space and plan for long-term impact in the advancement of community-led publishing.
Participants will have the chance to engage with the three projects and their vision for community-driven open scholarly publishing.
Register here for the webinar to be part of this conversation and help us shape the future of Open Access as a community!
We invite you to save the date of the Global Summit on Diamond Open Access / Cumbre Global sobre Acceso Abierto Diamante. This unique event will bring together the community of researchers, editors, universities, research funding and performing organisations, academic libraries, learned societies, and policy makers who are engaged worldwide in strengthening the Diamond Open Access ecosystem.
The Diamond Open Access community will gather during this event and focus its discussions on the equity, quality, usability, and sustainability of this scholarly publishing model. The objective of the Global Summit / Cumbre Global is to encourage a deeper understanding and mutual learning between world regions. It will focus on good practices and policies from across the globe. The event will also be instrumental in developing global principles that unite the initiatives developed in diverse, local contexts.
The Global Summit / Cumbre Global is a series of hybrid and multilingual events organised in Toluca (México) by Redalyc, UAEMéx, AmeliCA, UNESCO, CLACSO, UÓR, ANR, cOAlition S, OPERAS, and Science Europe. Interpretation will be foreseen in different languages.
The Congreso Internacional de Editoras/es Redalyc follows three previous editions and will be held together with the 20th anniversary of Redalyc.
The Diamond Open Access Conference follows the first edition organised on 19 and 20 September 2022 in Zadar, Croatia. These events gather the community of organisations and individuals that have endorsed the ‘Action Plan for Diamond Open Access’ (March 2022; now also available in German, French, Italian, and Spanish, with more translations on the way).
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Co-organised by Science Europe, cOAlition S, OPERAS, and the French National Research Agency (ANR), the Diamond Open Access conference taking place in Zadar (Croatia) on 19 and 20 September, is the first hybrid event for the community of organisations and individuals who endorsed the Action Plan for Diamond OA. It follows two webinars in which members of this community could already meet and discuss online (on 22 April and 7 July).
The goal of the event is to bring together the community, to provide insights and inspiration to operationalise the Action Plan based on existing good practices, with a vision to develop future common services. It is also foreseen to introduce to the Horizon Europe project ‘Developing Institutional Open Access Publishing Models to Advance Scholarly Communication’ (DIAMAS, 2022–2025). This project, launched on 1 September, has the objective to contribute to the development of a coherent, high-quality, and sustainable Open Access scholarly communication ecosystem.
Participation in the conference is limited to those individuals and organisations who have endorsed the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access. Note that endorsement of the Action Plan is still open and we welcome additional organisations who wish to help strengthen the community and contribute to moving forward Diamond Open Access publishing practices.
cOAlition S, via its host organisation European Science Foundation, is a partner in the Horizon Europe project “Developing Institutional Open Access Publishing Models to Advance Scholarly Communication’ (DIAMAS)“. The objective of the 3-year project (2022-2025) is to provide the research community with an aligned, high-quality, and sustainable scholarly communication ecosystem, capable of implementing Open Access as a standard publication practice across the European Research Area. This will substantially increase the capacity of institutions to provide innovative, valid, reliable, and accessible publishing services, taking into account the specific needs of the different scientific communities across the diversity of disciplines, countries, and languages.
- Project website: https://diamasproject.eu
Together with Science Europe, OPERAS, the French National Research Agency (ANR), and supported by experts from the Diamond Open Access community, cOAlition S developed an “Action Plan for Diamond Open Access“. The Action Plan provides a set of priority actions to further develop and expand a sustainable, community-driven Diamond scholarly communication ecosystem. It aims to bring together Diamond Open Access journals and platforms around shared principles, guidelines, and quality standards respecting the cultural, multilingual and disciplinary diversity that constitute the strength of the sector. Interested organisations and individuals are welcome to join the community by endorsing the Action Plan via https://scieur.org/diamond-endorsement.
Following the publication of the Open Access Diamond Journals Study, Science Europe organised, in collaboration with cOAlition S, OPERAS and the French National Research Agency (ANR), a workshop to gather experts from the Diamond Open Access community and discuss priority actions related to the efficiency, quality standards, capacity building, and sustainability of the ecosystem.
The event took place online on Wednesday, 2 February 2022 and was sponsored by the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation in preparation for the Paris Open Science European Conference organised in the context of the French Presidency of the European Union.
cOAlition S and Science Europe published the landmark “Open Access Diamond Journals Study” in March 2021. This in-depth report uncovered for the first time the vast size and scope of the Diamond Open Access publishing ecosystem, while also formulating recommendations for its future development.
The study was commissioned by cOAlition S and funded by Science Europe. It is the culmination of work undertaken from June 2020 to February 2021 by a consortium of organisations: OPERAS, SPARC Europe, Utrecht University, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER), Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (ENRESSH), Redalyc-AmeliCA, and Center for the Sociology of Innovation (CSI).
- Diamond unearthed: shining light on community-driven Open Access publishing (press release, 9 March 2021)
- Download the study
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