Moving forward: from the landmark ‘Open Access Diamond Journals Study’ to a concrete Action Plan for a sustainable community-driven Diamond scholarly communication ecosystem. 1/7#Act4DiamondOA #OpenAccess #OADiamondStudy, #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing

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With responses from >1600 journals, the #OAdiamondstudy finds that diamond journals represent a vast archipelago of relatively small journals serving a wide variety of scientific communities.

👇Full findings also on Zenodo:

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Diamond unearthed Science Europe and cOAlition S are pleased to announce the publication of an in-depth report and recommendations arising from a study of community-driven Open Access (OA) journals that are free for readers and authors, usually referred to as 'OA diamond journals'.

Diamond unearthed: shining light on community-driven #OpenAccess publishing! Together with @cOAlitionS_OA , we have released the finding of a study on OA diamond journals. #OAdiamondstudy #Plan_S

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Diamond journals need to be more efficiently organised, coordinated, & funded so they can better support researchers in disseminating their work. The #OAdiamondstudy recommends a series of actions to sustainably strengthen OA diamond journals in the context of #OpenScience

Great thread by @rmounce extracting some detailed takeaways from the #OAdiamondstudy for #Plan_S @cOAlitionS_OA

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Diamond journals need to be more efficiently organised, coordinated, & funded so they can better support researchers in disseminating their work. The #OAdiamondstudy recommends a series of actions to sustainably strengthen OA diamond journals in the context of #OpenScience.