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Ten Years of Glossa: A Decade of Diamond Open Access in Linguistics Today we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Glossa, one of our diamond open access linguistics journals. The history of Glossa is closely intertwined with that of the Open Library of …

Happy 10th anniversary to Glossa / @glossa-linguistics.bsky.social! 🎉

A decade of #diamondOA publishing in #linguistics, made possible by editors, reviewers, authors, and a global community of supporting institutions.

Here’s to the next 10 years!

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Diamond OA, boutique or bazaar? A reply to Herb (2026) Johan Rooryck (co-coordinator European Diamond Capacity Hub at OPERAS Research Infrastructure) https://pulse49.com/2026/03/23/diamond-open-access-a-boutique-model-for-scholarly-publishing In Diamond O...

From the Diamond papers👇
Diamond OA, boutique or bazaar? @johanrooryck.bsky.social reply to Herb (2026) #DiamondOA #ScholarlyPublishing #OpenAccess
🔗 thd.hypotheses.org/560

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* Interview w/ new Managing Director, Teresa Lee
* Demystifying #FOSS w/ Alec Smecher
* Reflections - 3rd Global Summit on #DiamondOA w/ @markhusk.bsky.social
* #OpenJournalSystems OJS 3.6

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⬆️ #DiamondOA #LibreAccès #LibreAccèsDiamant #ScholComm #AcademicChatter #ScholarlyJournals @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social @uitnorgesarktiske.bsky.social

We've joined AEGIS-OA, a new Horizon #Europe project that brings together 24 partners from 16 countries to strengthen a sustainable, high-quality #DiamondOA publishing ecosystem - zurl.co/rkga1

Diamond OA, boutique or bazaar? A reply to Herb (2026) Johan Rooryck (co-coordinator European Diamond Capacity Hub at OPERAS Research Infrastructure) https://pulse49.com/2026/03/23/diamond-open-access-a-boutique-model-for-scholarly-publishing In Diamond O...

@johanrooryck.bsky.social just wrote an excellent reply to a range of objections and misunderstandings about #DiamondOA.
doi.org/10.58079/15yxa

#APCs #OpenAccess #ScholComm

Diamond OA, boutique or bazaar? A reply to Herb (2026) Johan Rooryck (co-coordinator European Diamond Capacity Hub at OPERAS Research Infrastructure) https://pulse49.com/2026/03/23/diamond-open-access-a-boutique-model-for-scholarly-publishing In _Diamond Open Access: A boutique model for scholarly publishing_ (2026), Ulrich Herb argues that Diamond OA just fills a niche of scholarly publishing, and only serves the needs of particular research communities. He views Diamond OA as a tailor-made solution that is unable to scale, or apply universally. According to the author, Diamond OA is a boutique model, not an industrial-scale replacement for the current system. The author adds that the limitations of Diamond OA should be stated openly, as if they had not been. The text is riddled with misconceptions about Diamond OA. First of all, the author claims that Diamond OA is presented as a revolution, while it is in fact the oldest model of publishing. It is rather the advent of highly profitable commercial publishing in the last 50 years that represents a relatively short period in the history of scholarly publishing, an observation that is underscored in Fyfe et al (2022).[1] The author seems to have little faith in any attempt to reform scholarly publishing: neither Green, Gold, nor Transformative Agreements find grace in his eyes and are peremptorily dismissed. So is Diamond, as it has plateaued at 6% of all published articles worldwide (based on figures from OpenAlex). Curiously, the author concludes from this stable figure that the problem is not technical, since infrastructures for Diamond OA exist. That is not only a nonsequitur – the existence of infrastructure bears no relation to market share – it is disingenuous. In the last five years, a wealth of studies[2] have shown that Diamond OA suffers from fragmentation and lack of funding. Diamond OA journals sometimes struggle with visibility and technical capacity. Of course, recommendations[3] have been formulated to remedy this situation at the national and regional levels so that Diamond OA publishing can realize its full potential. Since Diamond OA requires public money, these recommendations take time to be implemented and acted upon. The author furthermore writes that _“These characteristics—publishing without fees for readers and authors, non-profit structures, scholar-led governance, CC BY 4.0 licensing—often overlap, but they are not systematically connected.”_ That is incorrect. The European Diamond Capacity Hub explicitly connects these characteristics in the six operational criteria[4] it has adopted to define journals that qualify for the Diamond Discovery Hub,[5] a curated registry of currently 3600 Diamond OA journals in Europe. How Subscribe to Open relates to Diamond OA also has a simple answer: as long as the journal does not ask authors or readers for fees, and is owned by a nonprofit organisation, such as a scholarly society, it is Diamond OA. The six operational criteria for Diamond OA are agnostic with respect to the way the scholarly society funds the journal: if that includes converted subscription funds, that is entirely fine. By contrast, journals that are owned by commercial publishers are excluded from the Diamond Discovery Hub. While it is true that being community-owned or scholar-led does not necessarily coincide with being non-commercial, this is not the only criterion for Diamond OA: the six operational criteria have to be jointly met for a journal to be considered Diamond OA. It is unfortunate that the author is not aware of these developments in Diamond OA, which have been disseminated widely. The author also writes that _“these increasingly intricate discussions about the varieties of Open Access and the pure doctrine of Diamond OA are more likely to be off-putting than inspiring”_. But this is a straw man argument: it has never been the intention of Diamond OA publishers to fully explain the intricacies of Diamond OA to researchers. Diamond OA just wants to build an alternative publishing model that is in the hands of the scholarly community and that is equitable for authors and readers. All authors need to know is that they can publish for free. If every APC-charging journal has a Diamond OA counterpart of the same quality and reputation, it is unlikely that researchers will want to continue to pay for the privilege of publishing. The author writes: _“Diamond OA is often described as publishing without costs, and that description is misleading. Diamond journals eliminate author-facing fees, but they do not eliminate the costs of publishing.”_ But this is another red herring: there is no Diamond OA publisher who says that there are no costs to publishing. I agree with the author that authors choose journals on the basis of prestige. But Diamond journals can and do have an outstanding reputation in their field. When journals flip to Diamond OA, i.e. when editorial teams and boards decide to leave a commercial publisher and start a new Diamond OA journal, they take the reputation of the journal with them. Admittedly, such moves are exceptional, but they represent proof of concept that prestige and trust are portable. Trust does not reside with the publisher, but with the team editing the journal. The author also suggests that Diamond OA publishers are not able to meet the increasing technical demands of scholarly publishing. That is not true. Even a small publisher like the Open Library of Humanities is able to put out high-quality journals whose articles’ metadata are demonstrably more complete that those of commercial journals of the most prestigious publishers: DOIs, ORCIDs, RORs, Grant IDs. It is also just not true that all Diamond OA publishing service providers are small: Erudit in Canada publishes over 200 Diamond OA journals, OpenEdition in France services 672 journals, most of which are Diamond OA, Redalyc serves over 1800 Diamond OA journals in Latin America, and 75% of Relawan Jurnal’s 24.000 journals in Indonesia are Diamond OA. In terms of sheer number of journals, about 14.000 no-fee (i.e Diamond OA) journals have passed muster at the _Directory of Open Access Journals_ (DOAJ), and in the ALMASI project, Laakso & Taskin (2025) (see fn 2) identified 20,355 Diamond OA journals across Africa, Latin America, and Europe, with 13,202 being based in Europe, 5,821 in Latin America, and 1,351 in Africa. To provide, as the author does, the example of Open U Journals, a Diamond OA platform hosted by the University of Bordeaux (France) that serves 10 journals, seems almost deliberately non-representative of the vast scale of journal communities presented by Diamond OA worldwide. At the same time, the example _is_ representative of something the author did not intend: Diamond OA often serves communities of practitioners – educators, policy-makers, social workers, healthcare professionals, agriculture, forestry, and water management engineers – but also SMEs and economic actors such as the wine industry, which stimulate innovation at the local level, creating jobs and economic growth. The author also neglects a dimension of Diamond OA that is crucial to scholarly publishing, i.e. its multilingual nature. Pölönen et al. (2021)[6] show that 75% of all APC-based journals in DOAJ are English-only as opposed to 33% of Diamond (i.e. nonprofit) OA journals. 39% of Diamond journals publish in multiple languages including English, as opposed to 14% for APC-based journals. They find that 5% and 2% of the APC journals publish in Indonesian and Persian respectively; and that only 2% of the APC-based journals publish exclusively in other languages across the world. By contrast only 33% of Diamond OA journals are English-only and 29% of Diamond OA journals publish exclusively in languages other than English: As such, Diamond OA journals serve a vast ecosystem of local communities. To conclude, Diamond OA globally represents a vast tapestry of journals, a kaleidoscopic bazaar[7] of scholarly diversity. A ‘boutique’ or a ‘niche’ it is not. * * * [1] Fyfe, A., Moxham, N., McDougall-Waters, J., & Røstvik, C. M. (2022). A history of scientific journals. UCL Press. [2] Bosman, J., Frantsvåg, J. E., Kramer, B., Langlais, P.-C., & Proudman, V. (2021). OA Diamond Journals Study. Part 1: Findings. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4558704, Armengou, C., Aschehoug, A., Ball, J., Bargheer, M., Bosman, J., Brun, V., de Pablo Llorente, V., Franczak, M., Frantsvåg, J. E., Hersperger, O., Klaus, T., Kramer, B., Kuchma, I., Laakso, M., Manista, F., Melinščak Zlodi, I., Mounier, P., Pölönen, J., Pontille, D., … Wnuk, M. (2023). Institutional Publishing in the ERA: Results from the DIAMAS survey. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10022184 Laakso, M., & Taskin, Z. (2025). D1.1 Scoping Report on Non-for-profit Publishing Ecosystems. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18257718 ; Rico-Castro, P., de Pablo Llorente, V., & Bonora Eve, L. (2026). Landscape Report on Diamond Open Access Publishing in Africa, Europe, and Latin America. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18377966 [3] https://zenodo.org/records/8202169 [4] https://zenodo.org/records/12721408 [5] https://ddh.edch.eu/en [6] Pölönen, J., Kulczycki, E., Late, E., Røeggen, V., & Sivertsen, G. (2021). Response to BOAI steering committee concerning multilingualism in Gold OA publishing environment. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5592704 [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar * * * OpenEdition suggests that you cite this post as follows: jrooryck (March 30, 2026). Diamond OA, boutique or bazaar? A reply to Herb (2026) . _the diamond papers_. Retrieved March 30, 2026 from https://thd.hypotheses.org/560 * * * * * * * *

#JohanRooryck (@johanrooryck) has written an excellent reply to some objections and misunderstandings about #DiamondOA.
https://thd.hypotheses.org/560

#APCs #OpenAccess #ScholComm

Chemistry Education Research and Practice The free to access journal for teachers, researchers and other practitioners in chemistry education. Open and free, for authors and readers.

化学教育誌 『Chemistry Education Research and Practice』(CERP) は、ダイアモンド・オープンアクセスへ移行しました。
これにより、著者も読者も 無料で投稿・閲覧いただけます。

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#化学教育 #diamondOA

Liste des titres des nouvelles revues sur Episciences en 2025 : Data et Corpus, Détous, JETHro, JFP, JoNAS, JSAT, jSEDI, MSS, ToC

Le CCSD publie son rapport d'activité 2025.
9 nouveaux titres ont rejoint Episciences portant à 45 le nombre total de revues
@scienceouverte #DiamondOA
Lire le rapport ▶️ www.ccsd.cnrs.fr/wp-content/u...

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Why join the Registry?
“Connecting with colleagues across Europe and together figuring out how we can switch to a more #equitable model for #OpenPublishing is an important part of turning SUP into a fully #DiamondOA publisher”
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... "Revenue growth driven by Research (7%+) through market leadership in OA". Honestly, I think it’s time for academia to take #academicpublishing back through #DiamondOA and #INPOApublishing right now.

A vintage-style “Wanted” poster featuring Robin Hood–themed characters posing as a diverse band of archers and scholars. The text reads: “Join the fight to make knowledge free. Divest from commercial academic publishing and join the Open Library of Humanities.

I wrote the blog post behind our new Robin Hood @openlibhums.org poster! In it, I reflect on why divesting scholarly publishing from commercial interests and redirecting library budgets into #diamondOA is so urgent.

Read it (and grab the poster!) here: www.openlibhums.org/news/932/

#UKSG2026

A vintage-style “Wanted” poster featuring Robin Hood–themed characters posing as a diverse band of archers and scholars. The text reads: “Join the fight to make knowledge free. Divest from commercial academic publishing and join the Open Library of Humanities.

New OLH poster!🔥

OLH reimagines Robin Hood for scholarly publishing as a call to action: divest from commercial publishers & support diamond open access. Join the fight for free knowledge. Download the poster & learn more: www.openlibhums.org/news/932/

#UKSG2026 #diamondOA #AcademicPublishing

Europe is getting serious about #OpenScience and #DiamondOA at the launch of Open Research Europe at CERN. A two-year development of Open Journal Systems (OJS) from Public Knowledge Project, @pkp.sfu.ca that will be fully and freely available to the global community of 55,000 journals via OJS3.6

European funders celebrate #OpenResearchEurope launch for #OpenPublishing at the @cern.bsky.social ORE Launch Event in Geneva!

PKP attended as the developers of #OpenJournalSystems (OJS) that the ORE platform will be based on this Fall.

Photo by PKP's @markhusk.bsky.social

#DiamondOA #AcademicSky

Interesting to know what @jisc.bsky.social and #CAUL provided a commercial publisher to publish six #DiamondOA journals when neither invests in the huge non-commercial Diamond OA community infrastructure, the majority of which is based in institutional libraries. There is always money for the #Big5.

#RLUK26 has been full of 'calls to arms' for action to address big issues facing academic and research libraries from supporting #diamondOA reinforcing #rightsretention and #copyright in the face of AI & now moving to #openmetadata #RLUK26

I'm representing Stockholm University and the Swedish Node for Diamond Open Access in this new and promising project. I'm looking forward to contributing, especially to developing more tools for #OAbooks . #DiamondOA

This was a great session with active participation from attendees & practical actions to take forward - great to see attendees responding to the 'call to action' from @theblochian.bsky.social yesterday about collaborating on proactive & coordinated efforts to support #DiamondOA & #OpenInfras
#RLUK26

💎 Diamond Survey 💎
Lyrasis, in partnership with the Big Ten Academic Alliance and the California Digital Library have launched a national survey to better understand the US #DiamondOA ecosystem #ScholarlyCommunication #LibraryPublishing @wearelyrasis.bsky.social
🔗 www.tinyurl.com/mappingdoa

Really looking forward to this!

As the session name suggests, we're looking for SOLUTIONS and opportunities for COLLABORATION to better support #DiamondOA in the UK!

Technically it is not #diamondOA as not everyone can publish on the platform. Still, going from a very classical funder platform to to this is a huge step. You could say the only thing they kept is the name ORE. #openscience

Bipartite question formation in Sm’algyax Matrix questions in Sm’algyax (Tsimshianic; British Columbia, Alaska) are doubly marked. Wh-questions involve the fronting of a wh-expression to the clause-initial position, together with the interrog...

Brown, Colin. 2026. Bipartite question formation in Sm’algyax. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–49. DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
#linguistics #DiamondOA

<em>Wh-</em>interrogatives in Camuno This study examines wh-interrogatives in Camuno, an endangered Northern Italian dialect. While similar constructions have been addressed in the literature, our analysis offers a novel contribution by ...

Neagu, Anda & Fiorini, Matteo. 2026. Wh-interrogatives in Camuno. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–39. DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
#linguistics #DiamondOA

The semantics of plural morphology in Akan With initial native speaker judgements suggesting an exclusive plural morpheme in downward entailing contexts in Akan, as reported by Ahenkorah (2022), this research seeks to test these claims through...

Ladore, Madeline. 2026. The semantics of plural morphology in Akan. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 11(1), 1–28.
DOI: doi.org/10.16995/glo...
#linguistics #DiamondOA

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Your participation will help create the 1st national map of Diamond OA publishing & inform future infrastructure, policy, and funding conversations.

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5 Minutes with University of Warwick Press 5 Minutes with University of Warwick Press We spent five minutes with Gareth J Johnson, Press Manager at University of Warwick Press! Tell us about your press/service/platform University of Warwick…

New “5 minutes with” blog featuring @uowpress.bsky.social

Gareth J Johnson shares how University of Warwick Press has evolved into a modern #diamondOA publisher, and the opportunities and challenges ahead.

Read more: oipauk.org/2026/03/26/5-minutes-with-university-of-warwick-press/

Very happy to be contributing to the #DiamondOA side of this initiative via @operaseu.bsky.social

🚀 Exciting news for #DiamondOA in Ukraine!

We are thrilled to welcome the Ukrainian Diamond Open Access Capacity Centre (UDOACC) to the EDCH National Capacity Centres network, supporting community-led, non-profit scholarly publishing in #Ukraine.

🔗Learn more about the EDCH NCCs: bit.ly/4syLL6l