Project Diamond Open Access in the Netherlands

Diamond Open Access (DOA) is a scholarly communication model that ensures immediate access to scholarly works without embargoes while preserving author copyrights and not charging either authors or readers. In this sense, it is a model that is community-driven and often associated with academic-led and not-for-profit publishing initiatives, like university presses and scholar-led publishing houses. DOA fosters diversity in publishing, enabling researchers with limited resources to contribute to Open Access and covering topics and languages often overlooked by commercial publishers. Saying this, DOA aligns with the principles of bibliodiversity, promoting multilingualism and fostering a more balanced scholarly communication environment. By returning control of the publishing process to researchers, DOA models prioritize societal impact and contribute to a more equitable dissemination of knowledge. A lot of international efforts are taking place around DOA and the sustainability of the publishing landscape, with particular highlight to the Latin America case of success in consolidating DOA in the scholarly communication ecosystem, but also to the DIAMAS, CRAFT-OA and PALOMERA projects, with a focus in the European Research Area.