DIAMOND
FUTURE
Information about Quality Diamond Journals
DEFINITIONS OF THE DIFFERENT ROUTES
- Green OA: making a version of the manuscript freely available in a repository.
- Gold OA: making the final version of the manuscript freely available immediately upon publication by the publisher subject to the payment of APCs.
- Diamond OA: a journal that publishes the articles immediately in open access and that does not charge any fee, both for reading or publishing.
- Hybrid: a journal that publishes both subscription and open access articles, where authors are given the option to publish open access if they pay APCs.
DIAMOND DEFINITIONS
cOAlition S-DOAS (for IPSP)
Diamond Open Access refers to a scholarly publication model in which journals and platforms do not charge fees to either authors or readers. Diamond Open Access journals are community-driven, academic-led, and academic-owned publishing initiatives.
Global Diamond Summit Toluca 2023
Diamond Open Access (OA) is a scholarly communication model in which research outputs are openly available, without charging fees to either authors or readers. In this model, all content-related elements are led and owned by scholarly communities.
https://globaldiamantoa.orgU/Global-Summit-Conclusions-Way-Forward.pdf
DOAG-Germany
A diamond OA journal offers immediate open access to all content published by the journal, without charging any fees from authors. Neither journals that charge article processing charges (APC) nor hybrid OA or delayed OA journals meet this definition
CRAFT-OA
6 criteria (in collaboration with the community)
Persistent identification-ISSN
Scholarly journal: described evaluation process
Open licences
No fees of any kind
Open to all authors
Community-owned by public or not-for-profit organisations with a research mission and scholarship (ownership status on its webpage).