DIAMAS

« On September 26th 2024, over 60 key stakeholders from the European Open Access community were invited to take a first look at the European Diamond Capacity Hub. This online event, dubbed the ‘soft launch’, spanned more than four hours and offered an overview of future developments for Diamond OA in…

« The DIAMAS and PALOMERA projects will host a webinar on Tuesday 10 September 2024 from 14.00 to 15.30 CEST to engage learned societies and learn how to best support their publishing operations. Register here!
The learned society journal is the archetype of community-led scholarly publishing, a…

« The DIAMAS and CRAFT-OA projects are happy to present their operational criteria for selecting Diamond OA journals to the community. This set of criteria has been issued to facilitate the identification of Diamond OA journals within the projects’ framework and services. (…) »

« The discussion on open science and the future of scholarly communication increasingly focuses on community-driven models that are equitable by nature and design. Political support for and public sector engagement in such models have gained more ground in recent years. One such model is Diamond Open Access, a scholarly communication…

« The richness of Diamond Open Access (OA) publishing is characterised by its diversity: from the wide-ranging disciplines it serves in multiple languages to the types of organisations and networks involved in developing, running or maintaining it. Local, regional and national interests driving it are underpinned by the context of the…

« DIAMAS and CRAFT-OA hosted a joint event to explore the criteria for Diamond Open Access (OA) in a webinar held on May 16, 2024. (…) what makes a journal Diamond OA, engaging with the community to define the essential requirements. The discussion featured an operational definition of Diamond OA, crafted…

« Libraries are vital pillars of the Diamond Open Access (OA) ecosystem, providing infrastructure, services, and expert support to institutional publishers. Many libraries are also publishers in their own right. To engage libraries in advancing Diamond OA in Europe, the DIAMAS project is launching a Conversation Series for libraries. (…) »

« One of the main tasks of the DIAMAS project is to investigate the financial sustainability of institutional publishing in Europe and to provide recommendations that will help Diamond Open Access (OA) publishers and service providers become more sustainable. A new DIAMAS research report that…

« In the rapidly evolving landscape of scholarly publishing, the financial sustainability of Diamond Open Access (OA) journals has become a critical concern for European small- and mid-size publishers and their service providers. This topic holds a central position in the priorities of the DIAMAS Project. The webinar, organised by SPARC…

« Understanding the sustainability of institutional publishers and service providers
(IPSPs) constitutes a key step in the DIAMAS project. This research report has one main
objective: to investigate what financial sustainability means for institutional publishing
in Europe and the workforce involved in it. (…) »