About
Diamond Open Access
Diamond Open Access is a scholarly publication model in which the research output is published open access without applying fees to either authors, readers or their institutions.
Values and benefits of Diamond Open Access
Equity and Inclusivity
Everyone regardless of their financial and geographic location can access and publish scholarly content without any fees.
Academic ownership
Diamond Open Access journals are owned by the editors or the society running them allowing them to control the publishing process, from author rights to editorial processes.
Non-profit
Diamond Open Access journals are mostly operated by (researchers of) academic institutions or scholarly societies that are non-profit, placing journal quality above the commercial need of ever expanding the number of publications.
Contributes to bibliodiversity
Enables publications in a diversity of languages, formats and subjects, which are usually not attractive to for-profit publishers.
Strengthening Diamond Open Access in the Netherlands
The national Diamond Open Access Expertise Centre is part of the program Strengthening Diamond Open Access in the Netherlands, funded by the Universities of the Netherlands (UNL) and launched by the Dutch Consortium of University Libraries (UKB) to reinforce and future-proof the national Diamond Open Access publishing landscape.
Team
Mission of the Expertise Centre
Our mission is to professionalize the field of Diamond Open Access by being the central knowledge hub that connects and creates resources and events for editors, researchers, institutional publishers and service providers, librarians, policymakers and funders in the Netherlands.
Vision
Our hub will be one of the driving forces towards an empowered Diamond Open Access community in the Netherlands.
Our guiding values and principles are:
- Openness: we believe that access to scholarly work needs to be freely accessible to everyone without charging fees to authors and readers in order to ensure equity and inclusivity of access and distribution of knowledge. We adhere to this principle by operating openly and transparently, for example, by sharing all the resources we create under a CC-BY license.
- Quality: we uphold the highest quality standards of the information and services provided. We are committed to promoting international quality standards for Institutional Publishers and editors by following closely the best practices set up by OASPA, and the quality standards developed within the DIAMAS project. In this way, we also commit ourselves to promoting international quality standards for institutional publishers and editors.
- Sustainability: we advocate that Diamond Open Access needs to be a financially sustainable open access model before it can be scalable.
- Service- and community-oriented: we set our agenda and priorities with feedback from the community, and we pivot when we need to. We put our partners and members at the core of what we do.
- Collaboration: we believe that collaborating with libraries, publishers, editors, researchers, policy, and funders is indispensable for the consolidation and sustainability of Diamond Open Access. We will be actively seeking to collaborate with relevant parties.
- Inclusivity and diversity: we advocate for an inclusive and diverse open access scholarly publishing model in which Diamond Open Access publishers thrive.
Partners
Become a member!
Membership is free and open to all parties interested in the development of Diamond Open Access in the Netherlands.
We particularly welcome researchers, editors, students, librarians, publishers, service providers, funders and policy makers interested in Diamond Open Access to become a member.
As a member, you will receive a first look at the agenda and early access to all materials developed by the Expertise Centre. In addition, you will be invited to special events and discussions.
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