Operational Diamond OA Criteria for Journals

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. What are the operational criteria for Diamond OA journals? The Diamond OA criteria for […]

Engage in (Co-)Designing Policymaker Guidelines & Recommendations with DIAMAS

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 model in which research outputs […]

Diamond OA by & for research performing organisations: towards co-designed recommendations

The DIAMAS project is developing a set of actionable Diamond OA policy recommendations and guidelines for institutional leaders. These will be published in March 2025 and will be accompanied by recommendations for funders, sponsors and donors (FSDs) and regional, national and international policymakers. Together, the recommendations represent a key project deliverable, aimed at raising awareness […]

Webinar with CRAFT-OA: Shaping Diamond Open Access

DIAMAS and CRAFT-OA invite you to join a webinar on 16.05.24 on Shaping Diamond OA: Criteria for Jorunals. Sign up for free here.  What criteria make a journal a Diamond Open Access (OA) journal? This 90-minute webinar, jointly hosted by CRAFT-OA, will shed light on the requirements that define Diamond OA journals by engaging with […]

Workshop: The road towards Diamond Open Access

Friday 12 April 2024, 13.45-16.15 GMT, Swansea University, Swansea, UK In the context of the EU-funded DIAMAS project, the European University Association will organise an in-person workshop on “The road towards Diamond Open Access” on Friday 12 April 2024 from 13.45 to 16.15 BST at Swansea University, United Kingdom. In the ever-evolving landscape of scholarly […]

WEBINAR: Community-driven Publishing with PALOMERA & CRAFT-OA

On Tuesday 27th February, 3PM CET, DIAMAS will again work with sibling projects CRAFT-OA and PALOMERA to bring you a webinar. Register by visiting this page. Each project is working towards an equitable future for scholarly communication and the webinar will be an opportunity for each to share the most recent developments in their work. […]

DIAMAS Results: Institutional Publishing Landscape Survey

On 31/01/2024 the DIAMAS project releases the results of its Institutional Publishing Landscape Survey. The key findings are presented in a synopsis – available here. The publication of the survey results marks a significant milestone for DIAMAS and for Diamond Open Access. There is now a clear and intelligible picture of the European landscape of […]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Focus group “Co-designing Diamond OA”

The DIAMAS project seeks participants for a focus group on “Co-designing Diamond OA recommendations and guidelines for institutional leaders”, which will organised by the European University Association (EUA) on Wednesday 13 March 2024 from 10:00 to 13:00 CET. The focus group will bring together institutional practitioners from universities, research performing organisations and learned societies to […]

WEBINAR ANNOUNCEMENT: Navigating Europe’s Institutional Publishing Landscape

We invite you to an insightful event which looks at the European Landscape of Institutional Publishing. Join us for a thought-provoking, 90-minute webinar where we will unveil the findings of our Institutional Publishing Landscape survey on Wednesday 7th February at 10:00 (CET). Our research delves deep into the intricacies that define the organisation, structure, and […]

Improving the Efficiency & Quality of Institutional Publishing: Reflections from the OS Fair

On 27 September 2023  DIAMAS hosted the Open Science Fair 2023 Workshop:  Improving the Efficiency and Quality of Institutional OA Publishing. The workshop addressed a range of challenges faced by institutional Open Access publishers, paying special attention to ‘diamond’ publishing models that are scholar-led and do not charge fees to readers or authors. In this […]