Operational Diamond Open Access 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 […]
DIAMAS welcomes the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information
In today’s academic landscape, the heavy reliance on closed infrastructures impacts the transparency and accessibility of scientific information. Despite efforts to monitor and incentivise open science, much of this work uses closed data systems that typically have low levels of data sovereignty and carry the risk of path dependencies. This practice often leads to biased […]
Webinar with CRAFT-OA: Shaping Diamond Open Access
DIAMAS and CRAFT-OA organised a webinar on 16 May 2024 on Shaping Diamond OA: Criteria for Journals. What criteria make a journal a Diamond Open Access (OA) journal? This 90-minute webinar, jointly hosted by CRAFT-OA, shed light on the requirements that define Diamond OA journals by engaging with their community. An operational definition of Diamond […]
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, DIAMAS organised a webinar with sibling projects CRAFT-OA and PALOMERA. Each project is working towards an equitable future for scholarly communication and the webinar offered an opportunity for each to share the most recent developments in their work, while encouraging participants to join a discussion to share their feedback. CRAFT-OA empowers regional […]
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
The findings of the DIAMAS Institutional Publishing Landscape survey were revealed in a thought-provoking, 90-minute webinar held on Wednesday 7 February 2024. It coincided with the release of the full analysis from our Institutional Publishing Landscape Survey and offered an opportunity to digest the findings and learn what this means for the DIAMAS project. Our […]
