Resources

The DIAMAS Project announced the publication of the new International DIAMAS Diamond Open Access Recommendations and Guidelines for Institutions, Funders, Sponsors, Donors, and Policymakers. This document offers a flexible, strategic framework designed to support the long-term sustainability of Diamond Open Access publishing. 

The EDCH Registry and Forum is an essential resource for institutions, publishers and infrastructure providers working in the Diamond Open Access (OA) landscape across the European Research Area. This free and comprehensive registry and forum is designed to support collaboration, transparency, and capacity building in scholarly communication. 

This installment of the DIAMAS Conversation Series explores how the Diamond Open Access Standard (DOAS) can be explored in real-world contexts.

How can editorial teams boost the visibility and reach of their open access journals? Scholastica outlines four concrete steps to help increase journal impact

This is the first newsletter edition of the Diamond Open Access Expertise Center.

The DIAMAS project has created a collection of more than 10 resources on Diamond OA aimed at guiding, instructing and inspiring diamond open access publishers, service providers and funders. The resources are especially useful in supporting the sustainability of institutional publishing. 

This short guide helps journal teams align their editorial and publishing practices with the Diamond Open Access Standard (DOAS). It outlines key quality and transparency criteria and supports journals in meeting requirements for directories like DOAJ. 

This useful training material by CRAFT-OA project introduces technical standards in Diamond Open Access journal publishing. The training is a compilation of essential reading on the following topics: 1) publishing systems and features, 2) metadata (standards; identifiers; licensing; OA and self-archiving policy), 3) content accessibility, and 4) overarching material. 

This pledge organized by the Free Our Knowledge coalition is aimed at researchers in cognitive science (neuroscience, philosophy, computer science, linguistics and other relevant disciplines) who want to tackle systemic inequalities embedded in academic publishing. By signing this pledge, you commit to publishing at least one scholarly work in a Diamond open access outlet within a five-year period.

The Diamond Discovery Hub will be a comprehensive directory of Diamond Open Access Journals across Europe. The journals presented in the directory are curated by an editorial team to ensure that they meet the six operational criteria: persistent identifier, scholarly journal, Open Access, no fees, open to all authors and community-owned.

The European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) provides six services to Diamond OA Publishers and Providers that range from online trainings to resources, guidelines, self-assessment tools.

This guide has been written for all journal editors (in the Netherlands and beyond) who are uncomfortable with commercial publishers' hold on their journals and would like to transition to a Diamond Open Access publication model.