Collaboration in Diamond Open Access publishing
The opportunities and benefits of collaboration within Diamond OA publishing are evident on individual, regional, national and global levels. Expanding beyond the confines of individual efforts offers significant benefits for enhancing publishing efficiency, quality, and impact. This approach also paves the way for fostering more productive collaborative opportunities in the future. In its effort to strengthen the Diamond OA archipelago and ensure its future financial sustainability, the DIAMAS project has aimed to identify current collaboration patterns at various levels, the obstacles hindering such collaborations, and potential new methods for publishers and service providers to work together.
This study from Developingthe Institutional Open Access Publishing Models to Advance Scholarly Communication (DIAMAS) project is based on a review of DIAMAS web survey responses, DIAMAS-led consultations with different stakeholder groups through public webinars and events, and six dedicated focus groups held with institutional publishers from across Europe in multiple languages, and a bibliometric investigation into Diamond OA journals and publishers.