How much does it cost to share your own research freely?
Inspired by @laserhedvig.bsky.social I put together a spreadsheet overviewing APCs in several archaeology journals.
Turns out you can publish for free (zero APC) in a #DiamondOpenAccess journal with a similar Impact Factor (JIF).
… policy objectives into practice by developing a shared governance structure and funding mechanism to advance Diamond Open Access in Switzerland through a co-design approach. Drawing on the concept of “scaling small”, the article examines this approach that seeks to stabilise existing […]
🎉 As part of #CoalitionPublica with @erudit.org, PKP is pleased to share this announcement of the new CP website!
What's new on the website, how it is designed to help journals, libraries and researchers, and how it advances the CP mission ⤵️
#OpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOA #AcademicSky
Huge thanks to @uoyopenres.bsky.social for renewing their membership to our Institutional Partner Programme.
💎 Community investment helps us sustain #DiamondOpenAccess to our journals.
UK libraries can join directly via Jisc's Subscription Manager:
🔗 tinyurl.com/ph-jisc-subs-2024-6
In this perspective article, the authors summarize the development of azobenzene-based solar thermal fuels and demonstrate their potential applications:
👉 https://tinyurl.com/5n8996jd
#azobenzene #energy #photoresponsive #SolarThermalFuels #BJOC #DiamondOpenAccess 💎🔓
Happy International Women’s Day!
AJOL celebrates women shaping African scholarship. We are proud to support Open Diamond Access — equitable, community-led, and free for readers and authors — helping amplify African women’s knowledge.
#InternationalWomensDay #DiamondOpenAccess #AJOL
Ausschnitt der verlinkten Website
Der #FID #Erziehungswissenschaft und #Bildungsforschung lädt bei der @bibliocon am 19. Mai zum Abschlussworkshop des @bmftr_bund -Projekts #edu_consort_oa ein.
Es geht um eine aktuelle Standortbestimmung und darum, gemeinsam mit den Stakeholdern der […]
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Do you still need costume ideas for World Book Day, because our friends at AUP have options!
Or, if you have enough silver glitter, you could always dress up as #DiamondOpenAccess
An aerial photograph of flooding in Florida after Hurricane Ian in 2022.
Authors Dominick Dusseau, Zachary Zobel, and Christopher Schwalm, @woodwellclimate.bsky.social, analyse the performance of seven catastrophe #flood models and their range of loss estimates.
As a #DiamondOpenAccess article, this paper is free to read and download: buff.ly/tJJgjdt
#JCRR #ClimateRisk
Grateful thanks to @unibe.ch bibliothek, who have again renewed their membership to our Institutional Partnership Programme.
💎 As a #DiamondOpenAccess publisher, we rely on community investment to maintain and develop our multilingual portfolio of journals.
tinyurl.com/support-PH
Many thanks to @bristolunilib.bsky.social, who have renewed their membership to our Institutional Partner Programme ✨
Community investment helps ensure our work remains sustainable.
UK libraries can subscribe directly via @jisc.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/ph-jisc-subs...
#DiamondOpenAccess
📢 Forum Accès Libre Diamond – Afrique (FR)
🗓️ 5 mars | ⏰ 13h30–15h00 (GMT)
Édition scientifique communautaire, sans frais, plus équitable.
🔗 bit.ly/DOAFrSession
#AfricaDOA #OpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccess
Great to see that options for Diamond Open Access are becoming more common in geosciences!
#DiamondOpenAccess #OpenAccess #Science #Geoscience #Academia
https://doi.org/10.57035/journals/sdk.2026.e41.2397
Promotional graphic for UCL Press blog titled “Diamond OA and the Future of Community-Owned Scholarship: Diamond OA as a Cultural Shift.” Red background with white text, UCL Press logo, a “Read Now” button, and a diamond-in-lock icon. Right side shows an interior architectural scene with a wrought-iron railing and window.
Discussions of #DiamondOpenAccess often focus on funding.
But the model also raises questions about #CommunityOwnership, inclusion, & whose voices are supported in #ScholarlyPublishing.
In the third post of our series, we explore Diamond OA as a cultural shift.
📖 Read more: bit.ly/4aM62yT
3/ We at @openbookcollective.bsky.social brought together librarians from around the world to discuss their work as #DiamondOpenAccess changemakers. Chaired by @heroicendeavour.bsky.social & with contributions from Fatimah Abduldayan, @jillasella.bsky.social, @mambalu.bsky.social & Sarah Thompson..
Don't MISS!
DOA Policy Forum – Africa (EN)
Speakers: Iryna Kuchma, Susan Murray, Lighton Phiri, Milica Ševkušić, Susan Veldsman.
3 Mar 2026 | 14:00–15:30 CAT
bit.ly/DOAPolicyForumEN
#AfricaDOA #OpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccess
Just under a week left to apply to the #CollectiveDevelopmentFund 2026. This fund is to support projects building capacity for Open Access Books, including networks and infrastructure. Read and apply in English, Spanish, French or Portuguese. #OpenAccess #OABooks #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOA
It's so encouraging to see libraries being proud of, and publicly proclaiming, their support for #DiamondOpenAccess. We are absolutely equally proud to be able to include Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford @bodleian.ox.ac.uk as one of our supporters. Thanks so much, on behalf of our Members! 😍
Oldenburg | Open Access Barcamp | 29. - 30.04.2026 | oa.barcamp | open-access.network
Anmeldung geöffnet!
#OpenAccess Barcamp 2026 in #Oldenburg
📅 29.–30. April
📍BIS der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
💸 Teilnahme kostenlos
🔎 #DiamondOpenAccess im Fokus
Infos und Anmeldung: open-access.network/vernetzen/ba...
Wir freuen uns auf den gemeinsamen Austausch mit euch!
Auftaktveranstaltung:
Diamond OA with Janeway at an Austrian University of Technology
Christoph Hornung & Dr. David Krassnig, TU Wien
📅 5. März 2026 | 14–15 Uhr (CET)
🗣 Englisch | keine Aufzeichnung
🎟 kostenfrei
🔗 eveeno.com/139459322
#DiamondOpenAccess #OpenScience
'Exploring the future of community-led open access books' (Copim Conference 2026) opens with keynotes from Copim and Open Book Futures PIs, Joe Deville and Janneke. Joe recaps the genealogy of Copim's emerging from the Radical Open Access Conference in 2015. #Copim2026 #DiamondOpenAccess
"Diamond Open Access Needs Institutions, Not Heroes" by Curt Rice
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/18/guest-post-di...
#OpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccess
Meet our Managing Editor Dr. Marc Kielmann Bolten at the Chemiedozententagung 2026 next week.
📅 March 2–4
📍 Essen, Germany
➡️ www.beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/news/LHUDWJM4HPY4LH...
Feel free to reach out to Marc to set up a meeting at […]
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Promotional graphic for UCL Press blog titled “Rethinking the Economics of Diamond Open Access: Building Sustainability.” Red background with white text, UCL Press logo, a “Read Now” button, and a diamond-in-lock icon. Right side shows architectural interior with wrought-iron railing.
“If authors don’t pay, someone must lose.”
In the second post of our series, we explore the economics of #DiamondOpenAccess & how collective funding and shared infrastructure offer a sustainable alternative to author-facing charges.
📖 Read more: bit.ly/3MGqSXl
#OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure
❗Big news ❗
LEIZA Journal of Archaeology, a new #journal of world #archaeology, launches soon, and will be #DiamondOpenAccess, promoting discipline-changing and agenda-setting work & advancing #equity, #accessibility and #impact in #research and #publishing.
All info: www.leiza.de/forschung/pu...
LJA is #DiamondOpenAccess, advancing #equity, visibility, accessibility and impact in #research and #publishing.
All information on the #journal, including editorial board members, submission formats, #author guidelines and policies can be found here: www.leiza.de/forschung/pu...
Excited to announce the launch of the LEIZA Journal of Archaeology (LJA), a new #DiamondOpenAccess, double-blind peer-reviewed online journal of world #archaeology.
More Info: www.leiza.de/forschung/pu...
"The path toward ethical science is paved with diamonds"
I discuss why diamond OA is ideal 4 ethical, sustainable & effective science. Requires both flipping existing journals & supporting new journals
doi.org/10.71448/bcd...
#openscience #smashthepaywalls #openaccess #diamondopenaccess
We are thrilled to have Samuel S. Veroneau, University of Pennsylvania, as a new member of our #EarlyCareerAdvisoryBoard #ECAB for the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology.
🔗 www.beilstein-journals.org/bjnano/boardMembers/4888...
Samuel […]
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Sincere thanks to @psuliberalarts.bsky.social for renewing their membership to our Institutional Partner Programme 💫
💎 Community investment means that we're able to sustain #DiamondOpenAccess to our multilingual portfolio of journals.
🔗 Learn more and support us: tinyurl.com/support-PH
