10.06.2025
Episciences: A sustainable Economic Model for Diamond Open Access Overlay Journals
« Episciences represents an innovative and sustainable approach to Diamond Open Access (OA) publishing through its overlay journal platform. As a pioneer in the overlay journal ecosystem, Episciences demonstrates how diverse funding streams can create a resilient economic foundation for Diamond OA publishing while strengthening the scholarly commons through an academic-led, academic-funded model that is not profit-driven. Episciences’ sustainability is anchored in a multi-layered funding approach that distributes financial responsibility across various stakeholders: – foundational institutional support, – infrastructure efficiency, – project-Based funding, – journal-Specific support, – community contributions and collective Funding. (…) »
