In DIAMAS, we seek to help institutional Open Access (OA) publishers improve their practices and the quality of their outputs. We have developed the Diamond Open Access Standard, which is expected to ensure the quality and transparency of governance, processes and workflows in Diamond OA publishing.
The checklist was originally part of the DIAMAS Best practices report, based on an analysis of the existing quality evaluation criteria, best practices, and assessment systems in publishing developed by international publishers associations, research funding organisations, international indexing databases, etc. The analysis has provided an initial input for the development of DOAS. DIAMAS has also developed the DOAS Self-Assessment Tool, offering a more nuanced self-assessment: https://diamas.fecyt.es/.
The checklist consists of questions and is divided into seven sections reflecting the seven core components of scholarly publishing outlined in the Diamond OA Action Plan, subsequently revised and modified by the DIAMAS project team. Each question is accompanied with a set of icons indicating the type of action you as a publisher should take if the answer is “no”.