On December 11, 2024, the German Research Foundation (DFG) approved the SeDOA consortium's project to establish a national service point for Diamond Open Access for an initial period of three years (see Presseinformation der DFG).
The Service Agency aims to strengthen scholarly-led and scholarly-owned publishing in Germany: “Diamond Open Access is a scholarly-led and scholarly-owned form of publication that is of great importance for a publishing system characterized by diversity, multi-perspectivity, demand equity and quality orientation.”
It is aimed at all persons involved in the supervision of publication organs at public or non-profit institutions, as well as scientists who act as editors of publication organs.
The consortium behind the project consists of 15 academic institutions and is led by the ULB Darmstadt. The working group of university publishers is also involved. It thus brings together a wide range of publishing expertise and deliberately aims to take into account and address a broad spectrum of disciplines.
The target groups are researchers as well as operators and employees of publication infrastructures that already offer or aim to offer scientific publishing in Diamond Open Access. The aim is to make publishing in Diamond Open Access better known and more visible and to support its implementation and optimization. Existing publication infrastructures are to be made more visible; it will also develop supplementary, innovative publication services. The aim is also to define common standards and quality control criteria for publishing in DOA.
“SeDOA has set itself the goal of promoting the Diamond Open Access concept in the community, making existing publication infrastructures more visible, contributing to their optimization and developing its own complementary and innovative offerings.” (https://diamond-open-access.de/)
SeDOA will contribute to the European Diamond Open Access network as the “German Diamond Capacity Center” and as such will also strengthen international cooperation.
In particular, the university library will be the point of contact for national, regional and state-specific (Diamond) Open Access initiatives and institutions and actively support them in their Diamond Open Access endeavors. The aim is to identify needs, exploit synergies through cooperation, strengthen existing information and publication structures and avoid parallel developments.
The university library is thus given the opportunity to actively shape the landscape of science-led publishing in Germany and can competently support and advise members of the TU Braunschweig in their plans to publish Diamond Open Access.
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