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 […]
Consultation Process: Diamond OA actionable recommendations and guidelines
DIAMAS is launching an online consultation on the first draft of a set of actionable recommendations and guidelines for Diamond OA. The recommendations are currently being developed through a co-creation exercise involving stakeholders at European, national and institutional levels. The overall aim is to help institutions, Funders, Sponsors, and Donors (FSDs), and policymakers support the […]
Strength through collaboration in Diamond OA publishing: Share your story!
Collaboration at different levels within an organisation, between organisations, regionally, nationally, internationally – e.g. shared services, sharing knowledge and expertise – help save costs and provide benefits for Diamond OA publishing organisations as well as for the scholarly ecosystem as a whole. In the spirit of Open Access Week and its theme of “Community over […]
European Diamond Capacity Hub: The Future of Diamond OA
On September 26th 2024, over 60 key stakeholders from the European Open Access community were invited to take a first look at the European Diamond Capacity Hub. This online event, dubbed the ‘soft launch’, spanned more than four hours and offered an overview of future developments for Diamond OA in Europe. The European Diamond Capacity […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The DIAMAS Common Access Point
A suite of tools and resources to support Diamond OA 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 Resources […]
