Creating multilingual resources through community-driven collaboration
Translating the resources created by the DIAMAS project is crucial for promoting the adoption of the Diamond Open Access Standard (DOAS) across diverse communities. By offering resources in multiple languages, DIAMAS ensures that a broader audience can access and benefit from its tools and guidance. In this blog post, we will present the collaborative effort […]
Introducing the Diamond OA Sustainability Check
Institutional publishing is central to the ecosystem of Diamond OA publishing. To maintain this growing ecosystem, it is vital to gain continued insights into the financial health of the operations of Diamond OA institutional publishers and service providers. For this purpose, the DIAMAS project has developed a tool for Diamond OA publishers: the Diamond OA […]
DIAMAS Conversation series for Libraries: Standards and Tools to Elevate Diamond OA Publishing
The second edition of the DIAMAS Conversation Series for libraries, held on 24 September 2024, focused on the standards and tools crafted to enhance the quality, efficiency and sustainability of Diamond OA publishing. The Diamond Open Access Standard (DOAS), a comprehensive quality framework for Diamond OA publishers, was introduced and the DOAS self-assessment tool, which […]
National overviews on sustaining institutional publishing in Europe
The richness of Diamond Open Access (OA) publishing is characterised by its diversity: from the wide-ranging disciplines it serves in multiple languages to the types of organisations and networks involved in developing, running or maintaining it. Institutional publishing is sustained in diverse ways across the European Research Area. Understanding the state of Diamond Open Access […]
Introducing DOAS: The Benchmark for Diamond Open Access Quality
The Diamond OA Standard (DOAS) is a new tool brought to you by the DIAMAS project to promote quality in Diamond open access (OA) publishing. Serving as both a technical guide and a practical benchmarking resource, DOAS combines comprehensive guidelines with a self-assessment tool to elevate standards in scholarly publishing. We have published a factsheet […]
What does DIAMAS offer to libraries?
Academic libraries play important roles in the Diamond Open Access ecosystem. Libraries provide infrastructure and services, as well as training and expert support to institutional publishers, but they can also be publishers in their own right. DIAMAS seeks to support them in these roles. Knowledge and guidance Evidence-based research on the landscape of Diamond […]
DIAMAS Conversation series for libraries: Advancing diamond OA in Europe
Libraries are vital pillars of the Diamond Open Access (OA) ecosystem, providing infrastructure, services, and expert support to institutional publishers. Many libraries are also publishers in their own right. To engage libraries in advancing Diamond OA in Europe, the DIAMAS project launched a Conversation Series for libraries. Throughout the series we will explore opportunities to […]
The DIAMAS Common Access Point
A suite of tools and resources to support Diamond open access publishing Irakleitos Souyioultzoglou1, Sona Arasteh2,1 1 OPERAS AISBL 2 Max Weber Stiftung POSTER Opening collaboration for community-driven scholarly communication (OPERAS2024) Conference, Zadar, Croatia, 24-26 April 2024 Cite as: Souyioultzoglou, I., & Arasteh, S. (2024). The DIAMAS Common Access Point: a Suite of Tools and […]
Understanding the financial sustainability of institutional publishers and service providers in Europe
One of the main tasks of the DIAMAS project is to investigate the financial sustainability of institutional publishing in Europe and to provide recommendations that will help Diamond Open Access (OA) publishers and service providers become more sustainable. A new DIAMAS research report that has recently been published draws on the results of a literature […]
Request for Proposals: Technical Design and Development of the DIAMAS Common Access Point
Founded in 1971 and based in The Hague, LIBER is Europe’s largest research library network. Currently, LIBER is involved in the EU Horizon Europe-funded project, “Developing Institutional Open Access Publishing Models to Advance Scholarly Communication–DIAMAS”: https://diamasproject.eu For the needs of the project, LIBER will procure the Common Access Point (CAP) for Diamond Open Access (OA) […]
