A practical workshop on Diamond OA publishing

New European DIAMAS tools to support you in your work

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Keywords:

open access publishing, Diamond OA, open access, practical, hands on

Abstract

Diamond Open Access publishing faces challenges that include fragmentation across the landscape, varying standards of quality, visibility and financial sustainability. Nonetheless, this ‘no fee’ publishing model can be the path towards more equitable and more diverse scholarly publishing. It is important to work together to secure the future of Diamond OA publishing.

The workshop will showcase a toolsuite for supporting Diamond OA publishing that has been developed by the DIAMAS project https://diamasproject.eu/ based on good practices. It is both a chance for participants to start to utilise DIAMAS resources to make their work easier and an essential moment for the DIAMAS team to test how their outputs are working.

In interactive sessions, participants will be walked through how to use two different outputs of the DIAMAS project:

  • The Diamond OA Standard or DOAS, that enables self-assessment of the quality of Diamond OA publications (the Diamond OA Standard or DOAS), 
  • The Diamond OA Sustainability Check, that enables self-assessment of the financial sustainability of Diamond OA services 

When they are used together, these resources can help Diamond OA publishers and service providers to ensure the quality of their publications, improve their operations and plan strategically for the future.

Participants will also be able to sign up to join the registry of Diamond OA publishers and services providers and the Diamond OA knowledge-exchange hub (the Common Access Point or CAP) that DIAMAS will launch in 2025.

We hope that this post conference workshop will be useful to university presses, library publishers, service providers and journal editors, whether they already publish Diamond OA or would like to do so in future.

Author Biographies

Vanessa Proudman, SPARC Europe

Vanessa is Director of SPARC Europe. She has 20 years of experience in international, national and regional policymaking and advocacy in the areas of Open Access, Open Science, Open Culture and Open Education with many leading universities and libraries worldwide from over 20 countries. Research and evidence-based policymaking is key to her work, as is connecting stakeholders and sharing knowledge to build capacity on open, also to amplify good practice.

Prior to SPARC Europe, she worked at Tilburg University on various international initiatives, was programme manager at Europeana and led a dept on information and IT at a UN-European region research institute in Vienna for over 10 years aside from having her own company to advise academic libraries on how to innovate in the digital age.

Pilar Rico Castro, Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology

PhD in Government and Public Administration. Her primary research areas focus on open science policies, open access repositories, the scientific information market, and academic publishing. In her role as an officer, Pilar supports the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities in the design, implementation, and evaluation of both national and European Open Science public policies. At the national level, she is an integral member of the National Open Science Committee (COS), where she contributed to the design and drafting of the National Open Science Strategy (ENCA). She coordinates key funding and certification services for digital infrastructures for the ENCA deployment like the National Scientific Journals Assessment Call and the National Funding Call for Academic Institutional Publishing Platforms. She is the Spanish Delegate at the European Commission’s National Points of Reference (NPR) for Open Science Expert Group, and at the EOSC Steering Board Expert Group. Additionally, she is a associated teacher and researcher at the National University of Distance Education (UNED). As part of the DIAMAS project, Pilar has played a key role in the creation of the Diamond Open Access Standard (DOAS).

Published

2024-09-20

How to Cite

Proudman, V., & Rico Castro, P. (2024). A practical workshop on Diamond OA publishing: New European DIAMAS tools to support you in your work. Septentrio Conference Series, (1). Retrieved from https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/SCS/article/view/7740

Issue

No. 1 (2024): The 19th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing

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Workshops

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Copyright (c) 2024 Vanessa Proudman

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