Project acronym:  DIAMAS

Full project title: Developing Institutional Open Access Publishing Models to Advance Scholarly Communication

Project duration: 36 months (September 2022 – August 2025)

Number of partners: 23 public service scholarly organizations from
12 ERA countries

Contact: contact@diamasproject.eu 

Funding:HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01 (grant agreement n. 101058007)

Project page on Cordis: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101058007 

Website: https://diamasproject.eu/ 

Project Description

DIAMAS gathers 23 organisations from 12 European countries, well-versed in OA academic publishing and scholarly communication.  The project aims to map the Diamond OA publishing landscape across the European Research Area, highlighting its diversity in terms of size, institutional types, locations, disciplines, and languages. It also seeks to standardise current publishing practices by introducing the Diamond Open Access Standard, and to support Diamond OA Publishers and Service Providers in enhancing their capacities through the development of an infrastructure that provides access to resources, tools, and community-building services.

Partners:

  1. Universite D’aix Marseille (AMU), France
  2. Open Access In The European Area Through Scholarly Communication (Operas), Belgium
  3. Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique Cnrs (Cnrs), France
  4. Stichting Eifl.Net (Eifl), Netherlands
  5. Fundacion Espanola Para La Cienciay La Tecnologia, F.S.P., Fecyt (Fecyt), Spain
  6. Tieteellisten Seurain Valtuuskunnasta (Tsv), Finland
  7. Stichting Liber (Liber), Netherlands
  8. Universitat De Barcelona (Ub), Spain
  9. Sveuciliste U Zadru (Unizd), Croatia
  10. Sveuciliste U Zagrebu Filozofski Fakultet (Ffzg), Croatia
  11. Science Europe (Science Europe), Belgium 
  12. Association Europeenne De L’universite (Eua), Belgium
  13. Stichting Open Access Scholarly Publishers Associaton (Oaspa) Netherlands
  14. Universitetet I Tromsoe – Norges Arktiske Universitet (Uit),  Norway
  15. Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche (Cnr), Italy
  16. Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen Stiftung Offentlichen Rechts (Ugoe), Germany
  17. Stichting Sparc Europe (Spe), Netherlands
  18. Universiteit Utrecht (Uu), Netherlands
  19. Ethniko Kentro Tekmiriosis Kai Ilektronikou Periechomenou (Ekt), Greece
  20. Instytut Badan Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk (Ibl Pan), Poland
  21. Fondation Europeenne De La Science (Esf), France

Project Outcomes

This report describes the landscape of institutional publishing in Europe, based on a process of collecting information from the organisations active in institutional publishing in the ERA.

DOAS sets out standards for Diamond publishing of scholarly journals in the broadest sense.

  • Self assessment tools 

The Self-assessment tools help Diamond OA Publishers and Service Providers self-assess their level of compliance to the Diamond Open Access Standard, and gain insights into their financial health.

https://diamas.fecyt.es

  • Toolsuite 

https://toolsuite.diamas.org

The toolsuite provides guidance and resources that will assist Diamond OA Publishers and Service Providers in meeting current standards.

Under development:

  • Registry

A platform where Publishers, Service Providers, and Technology Providers can showcase their expertise

  • Forum

A collaborative venue that facilitates exchange of knowledge and best practices.

  • Training platform

Online training materials and self-paced courses for Publishers and Service  Providers