Cape Town Declaration on Diamond Open Access

"Following the 2023 Toluca Global Summit, we, the 2024 Cape Town Global Summit

participants, affirm that scholarly knowledge is a public good.

We advocate for access to knowledge to be free of prejudice and bias. It must be accessible to all communities, including readers and authors, without barriers and paywalls.

We further affirm that diamond open access is driven by social justice, equity and inclusivity.

We commit to advancing diamond open access to ensure equitable, inclusive, and sustainable production, dissemination, and access to information and knowledge, fostering inclusion, diversity, decolonisation and demarginalisation.

We respect regional diversity in scholarly communication and reiterate that the implementation of diamond open access needs to be tailored to address local and global challenges...."