Sustaining Institutional Publishing in Europe
National Overviews on Sustaining Institutional Publishing in Europe
From the Executive Summary
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The richness of Diamond Open Access (OA) publishing is characterised by its diversity: from the wide-ranging disciplines it serves in multiple languages to the types of organisations and networks involved in developing, running or maintaining it. Local, regional and national interests driving it are underpinned by the context of the country’s publishing industry and national political, social, and economic OA priorities, policies, and practices. Understanding the current state and potential future of Diamond OA publishing across the European Research Area is a key goal of the DIAMAS project. This report presents research findings in the early 2024 context of Diamond OA publishing in 10 countries from across the various regions of Europe.
This report shows how national contexts differ and create unique conditions for Diamond OA publishing in each country. Diamond OA particularly flourishes in countries with strong community leadership and public funding. In some countries, national journal publishing is financially supported through public financing to maintain a prosperous and locally relevant scholarly communication environment in national languages, often realised through Diamond OA publishing. In countries where institutional publishers are coordinated at the national level, more public funding may be available for Diamond OA. However, this is not necessarily a condition for robust national infrastructures to support Diamond publishing.
Creating conditions for Diamond OA publishing to flourish in a national context requires recognising the following factors:
The role of Diamond OA in the scholarly publishing landscape differs across countries
Diamond OA is by and for the national community
Diamond OA must be incentivised
Public funding is necessary for IPSPs and infrastructures that enable Diamond
National strategies for open science can, but do not always, promote Diamond publishing
Citation: Taşkın, Z., et al. D5.2 National Overviews on Sustaining Institutional Publishing in Europe. 1.0, Zenodo, 4 June 2024, doi:10.5281/zenodo.11383941.
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The project received funding from the European Union’s Horizon-WIDERA-2021-ERA-O1 research and innovation programme.
Citation
Taşkın, Z., et al. D5.2 National Overviews on Sustaining Institutional Publishing in Europe. 1.0, Zenodo, 4 June 2024, doi:10.5281/zenodo.11383941.