These articles are intended to be high level introductions to Diamond open access (OA) and the Diamond Open Access Standard (DOAS). They cover the seven core components of DOAS and also act as a signpost to other resources in this section of the website as well as further reading.
They are also available to download at 10.5281/zenodo.14001342
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Publishing services should be able to find a suitable and sustainable mix of funding sources that can be publicly disclosed and do not interfere with editorial decision-making.
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Diamond OA publishing is driven and owned by scholarly communities. This article outlines how that can be achieved in line with the Diamond OA Standard.
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Publishers need to be acquainted with Open Science (OS) principles, have them embedded in their policies, and ensure that their workflows are aligned with best practices and standards for facilitating and incentivising OS.
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Editorial quality, editorial management and research integrity
- Editorial Quality
Evaluation procedures used by journals play an essential role in maintaining the quality, reliability, and validity of published contents and must be rigorous, meeting basic standards and generally accepted practices.
- Editorial Management
Publishers must provide information so that prospective authors and readers can identify relevant journals and easily view their editorial policies and procedures.
- Research Integrity
Research Integrity (RI) involves conducting ethical research to the highest standards. Core principles include reliability, honesty, care, and transparency.
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Technical Services Efficiency
- Software and Interoperability
In scholarly publishing, an ideal online publishing infrastructure should support workflows from manuscript submission, through peer review, to content display.
- Metadata
Metadata are crucial for the discoverability and dissemination of published outputs and should follow a set of standards and guidelines determining how metadata should be structured, curated and distributed.
- Preservation and content formats
Digital preservation enables seamless access to content in case it becomes unavailable on the publisher’s platform and should rely on open standards.
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Deliberate strategies to increase visibility can help published content be disseminated as widely as possible. Traditional marketing activities as well as technical aspects can all contribute to making sure content reaches the intended audience.
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Historical practices have led to discrimination in scholarly publishing, harming individuals as well as research and society more broadly. Actors across the industry can take steps to promote equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging (EDIB).
- Gender diversity
In scholarly publishing, men are overrepresented as research subjects, authors, reviewers, editors, and executives. Steps to increase gender diversity will help to reduce unconscious bias.
- Accessible/inclusive website, content and metadata
Accessibility ensures that people with disabilities can access content, while the use of inclusive language and images helps to ensure that diverse groups feel respected.
- Multilingualism
Multilingualism is the use of more than one language to disseminate research.
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