The ABCs of Diamond OA | Katina Magazine

"After a first summit in Toluca, Mexico in 2023 and a second gathering in Cape Town, South Africa in 2024, the Third Global Summit on Diamond Open Access took place in February 2026 in Bengaluru, Southern India....

The diamond OA community is undoubtedly global. Professionals from all inhabited continents came together in Bengaluru, and we basked in the generous hospitality of our hosts—Sridhar Gutam and his colleagues at the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR, Figure 2). Proceedings were driven by Science Europe and IIHR, with backing from honorary chairs in India and active support and hard work from an extensive International Overseeing Committee.

Speakers and convenors were present in person and online, enabling global coverage from a wide variety of perspectives: early-career researchers and emerging scholars to established professors and editors; infrastructures and platforms to policy pundits and funders. Representatives of ministries of science, technology and innovation shared views alongside metadata experts and repository connoisseurs."