DIAMAS: Developing Institutional Open Access Publishing Models | EIFL

"EIFL was one of 23 partners in the ‘Developing Institutional Open Access Publishing Models to Advance Scholarly Communication’ (DIAMAS) project, that was launched in September 2022 to enhance open access publishing in the European Research Area (ERA). The project ended in August 2025.

In the transition towards open access (OA), institutional publishing is challenged by fragmentation and varying service quality, visibility, and sustainability. The three-year DIAMAS project, which was funded by the European Union, aimed to address these challenges and to deliver an aligned, high-quality, and sustainable institutional OA scholarly publication ecosystem for the ERA, setting a new standard for OA publishing, shared and co-designed with all stakeholders.

Diamond OA refers to a scholarly publication model in which journals and platforms do not charge fees to either authors or readers. 

The DIAMAS project partnership comprised 23 organizations from 12 European countries with expertise in OA academic publishing and scholarly communication: Aix-Marseille Université (AMU) (Coordinator), OPERAS, CNRS, EIFL, the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies (TSV), JISC, the Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER), University of Barcelona, University of Zadar, University of Zagreb, Science Europe, the European University Association (EUA), the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA), Arctic University of Norway, the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), University of Göttingen, SPARC Europe, Utrecht University, the National Documentation Centre (EKT), IBL-PAN, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and the European Science Foundation (ESF) (acting for cOAlition S)."