« 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,…
« L’édition savante implique de nombreux acteurs ayant des intérêts divers. Au Canada, l’implication des universités, la présence de sociétés et la disponibilité d’un soutien gouvernemental pour les périodiques semblent avoir contribué à un écosystème de revues assez diversifié. Cette étude présente en détail l’état actuel de ces revues, ainsi que…
« OLEcon supports non-commercial Diamond Open Access journals in the field of economics sciences. For sustainable funding, the ZBW is organising a funding consortium. In this blog post, we report on the current progress, the process, and how the consortium is being put on a stable footing in the long term.…
« This case study presents the context, governance and operations of the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) launched in January 2025. The EDCH will coordinate diamond open access (OA) capacity centres in Europe and consolidate and align the diamond OA organizations that provide services and tools to diamond OA outputs in…
« Open Access (OA) publishing practices provide unrestricted access to research and are vital to scholarly communication today. In the Diamond Open Access (Diamond OA) publishing model, not only do readers have free access, but authors publish without fees, supported instead by universities, libraries, or research institutions that provide the technological…
« Une science inclusive, partagée et équitable est un facteur clé de succès dans la réalisation des aspirations de l’Agenda 2063 « L’Afrique que nous voulons ». De même, la recommandation de l’UNESCO sur la science ouverte offre un outil puissant pour atteindre les objectifs de développement durable en ouvrant les…
« Watch the webinar to learn how the Equitable Pricing Framework, developed by Information Power for cOAlition S, aims to make scholarly communication more accessible and equitable for researchers worldwide (…) »
« In December 2024, ten prominent research funding and performing organizations in Europe signed a Statement of Intent to collaboratively fund Open Research Europe (ORE) and confirm its not-for-profit mission for the public good.
What does this significant milestone in the development…
« The objective of ALMASI is to provide the research community with an aligned, nonprofit, high-quality, and sustainable scholarly communication ecosystem across three world regions: Africa, Europe, and Latin America. This will enable scholarly communities to take full responsibility for innovative, valid, reliable and accessible publishing services and solutions that do…
« On October 29-30, 2024, COAR organised a strategic meeting to discuss how to accelerate the adoption of the Publish, Review, Curate model of scholarly publishing. The meeting was part of the COAR Notify Project and was hosted by the CCSD (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) in Lyon, France.…
