SPARC Europe

SPARC Europe is one of Europe’s key and long-standing voices advocating for unfettered access to research and education — for the academic and education community. Since its founding in 2004, SPARC Europe has been a key player in driving Open Access forward by supporting open policymaking and advocating for progressing Open Science and Open Education agendas in HIgher Education across Europe. SPARC Europe focuses on policymaking, capacity-building, advocacy and community engagement to help make Open the default in Europe. In recent years, SPARC Europe has also been focussed on ensuring more equity in Open on the one hand and that what so many of us have invested in over the years is sustained going forward on the other.

SPARC Europe is the WP lead for sustaining institutional publishing, and is responsible for engagement activities of the DIAMAS project.

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Event held: 02/04/2024

Presentation slides: https://zenodo.org/records/10949008

In the rapidly evolving landscape of scholarly publishing, the financial sustainability of Diamond Open Access (OA) journals has become a critical concern for European small- and mid-size publishers and their service providers. This topic holds a central position in the priorities of the DIAMAS Project. The webinar, organised by SPARC Europe, provides an insightful overview of the multifaceted aspects of financial sustainability within institutional Diamond OA publishing. It draws on the results of extensive research amongst hundreds of institutional publishers and service providers through surveys, interviews and focus groups.

Watch this event back to understand DIAMAS findings on financial sustainability.

WEBINAR: The Dynamics of Funding Diamond OA - Opportunities & Challenges

[Regionalni vebinar za urednike i izdavače naučnih časopisa u otvorenom pristupu / Regionalni webinar za urednike i izdavače znanstvenih časopisa u otvorenom pristupu]

[ LANGUAGES: Croatian and Serbian]

Regional webinar for editors and publishers of open access scholarly journals in Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia was organized by the DIAMAS project on 1 March 2024.

During the webinar, the state of institutional open access scholarly publishing in Europe was discussed based on the results of the survey conducted in 2023 as part of the DIAMAS project, with a special accent on the following topics:

Editorial quality
Technical aspects of journal publishing
Visibility, indexing, and metric indicators

Presentation slides: https://zenodo.org/records/10810921

[WEBINAR] Regional event for editors & publishers of open-access journals BA, HR, ME, MK, RS, & SI

Revisit our webinar, which took place on Wednesday, February 7th, at 10:00 AM CET, where we discussed the insights from our Institutional Publishing Landscape survey.

Presentations available here: https://zenodo.org/records/10635064

Our research peeled back the layers of Institutional Publishing in Europe, exploring its organisation, structure, and financing in depth. These findings push the DIAMAS project into a new phase, where guidelines, recommendations, and practical tools were crafted to bolster Diamond Publishing and enhance equitable access to scientific work.

🔍 Highlights of the Webinar:

Presentation of key survey findings
Insights into the implications for Diamond Publishing
Q&A with our team

WEBINAR: Navigating Europe’s Institutional Publishing Landscape (07.02.24)

(Recorded 20/06/23)

Three projects. Over 40 partners. One goal: Community-led Open Scholarly Publishing. EU projects CRAFT-OA, DIAMAS, and PALOMERA are working for an equitable future for scholarly communication, with academic communities at the centre.

In the webinar, participants were introduced to each project and their individual aims. Following this, discussion focused on how, despite their separate focus areas, their efforts work towards a broad and common vision for a more open and equitable scholarly publishing ecosystem.

CRAFT-OA empowers regional journal platforms and publishing service providers to upscale, professionalise, and reach stronger interoperability with other scientific information systems, by providing services and tools.

The DIAMAS project is developing common standards, guidelines and practices to build capacity for the Diamond publishing sector. Formulating recommendations of this kind aims to create a more sustainable future for OA Diamond Publishing in Europe.

PALOMERA has set out to provide actionable recommendations and concrete resources to support and coordinate aligned funder and institutional policies for Open Access books. Doing so involves assessing challenges and bottlenecks that currently slow the widespread implementation of OA book policy.

Slides available on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/record/8070435

WEBINAR: Creating Community-Driven Pathways to Equitable Open Scholarly Publishing

The DIAMAS project will map and understand institutional publishing in Europe to raise academic publishing standards, improving quality and sustainability for this sector.

But what do we mean by institutional publishing and service providers? In this video, Bianca Kramer talks you through how journals are organised, managed, and what services they need to sustain publishing activities.

Publishing and Service Providers

The Institutional Publishing Ecosystem

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