New Webinar: Scaling up Diamond Open Access Journals
Posted on 15th May, 2025
Join a panel of expert speakers online to learn about the Open Journal Collective, a new diamond OA journal model, how it came to light, what it offers and why it is needed.
📆 June 3rd 2025
🕐 2 – 3:30pm BST
Sign up: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scaling-up-diamond-open-access-journals-tickets-1349605499379
Diamond open access (OA) is championed as a more open, equitable and inclusive, community-driven journal publishing model, especially when compared against other commercially owned, author pay and subscription models. Additionally, demand for not-for-profit open access journal publishing is rapidly growing amongst academics and funders, however, there is an acute lack of capacity and funding for journals to sustainably meet this demand. There are many barriers to solving these complex challenges, but one new initiative called the Open Journals Collective aims to disrupt the current landscape by offering a more equitable, sustainable and alternative solution to the traditional and established payment structures. Join us in this session where we will hear about this new and exciting community-run diamond open access funding model, pioneered for and by university presses.
During the session we will hear from the conveners of the collective to learn more about why and how it came to light, what it offers and why it is needed. We will hear about the experiences of a library / institution with various OA journal models including their interactions with commercial publishers, as well as perspectives from a journal Editor who, alongside the journal board, resigned from a subscription journal and successfully launched a new and competing diamond open access journal.
Sign up: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scaling-up-diamond-open-access-journals-tickets-1349605499379
This event is being presented as part of the Festival of Open Science and Scholarship.
About the Festival of Open Science and Scholarship
The Festival of Open Science and Scholarship is organised by teams at UCL, LSE and the Francis Crick Institute. Running from 2-6 June the festival includes a combination of online, hybrid, and in-person events across a range of topics including:
- Special collections and co-production
- AI and its impact on authorship
- Open Research in the Age of Populism
- Scaling up Diamond OA journals
- Reproducibility and qualitative research
- Navigating data sharing with personal data
The full programme and booking is available via the Open@UCL blog.