Quartz Open Access – Sustainability and Fairness for Open Access

"Quartz OA is an ecosystem that facilitates exchanges of resources and funding among the open access community members. It is a new cooperative economy and a new channel to fund and support independent open access publishing....

We do not propose ‘yet another’ platform set to extract profit from the value created by someone else. We are building a platform cooperative that will be owned by the members of the academic community and will be protected from a takeover or a change of ownership through democratic governance mechanisms...

We are on a mission to support the transition to fair, sustainable and independent open access publishing. We strive for more inclusive, just and equitable academic publishing where underrepresented and niche scholarly communities are nurtured and supported and everyone has equal opportunities to publish in open access regardless of their background or scientific discipline. We believe that contributions to fair open access publishing – be it authoring, reviewing, or editing – should be recognized and valued....