⌛ Last chance to join the EDCH Advocates! Applications for the 2026–2027 cohort close 30 September. Help connect EDCH with your local community, share resources and training, and bring your community’s perspectives into the development of #DiamondOA! 🔗 tinyurl.com/5n7d7tp4

European Diamond Capacity Hub@eudch.bsky.social · 3w ago

🌍 Help shape the future of #DiamondOA in Europe! EDCH is looking for new Advocates to connect with local communities, share resources, contribute to the EDCH Forum, and help shape services to meet community needs. Join our 2026–2027 cohort! 📅 Apply by 30 September 2026 🔗 tinyurl.com/5n7d7tp4

💎 French universities and research organisations are strengthening their support for the EDCH! Through Couperin, seven French institutions are contributing to sustainable, inclusive and community-led #DiamondOA! 🔷Read more: tinyurl.com/bdzxhsf4 🔷Support the EDCH: tinyurl.com/3zwnd5jp

📚 Do you work with #DiamondOA books? AEGIS-OA is gathering community input on adapting the #DiamondOA Standard (DOAS) for OA book publishing. Your experience can help shape DOAS to reflect the diversity and needs of the OA books community. 📝 tinyurl.com/y9t7xsjs 📅 Deadline: 18/10/2026, 23:59 CET

Wrote in @timeshighered.bsky.social Campus about Diamond Open Access in the UK. Give it a read and check out these incredibly vital OA initiatives: @oipassoc.bsky.social, @ojcollective.bsky.social, @openbookcollective.bsky.social, @eudch.bsky.social. www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/diamo...

Diamond open access publishing: what it is and how to do it

For researchers interested in publishing their work with no fees for authors or readers, diamond open access publishing could be the answer. Here is a guide to the basics

timeshighereducation.com

💎 A timely EDCH Forum discussion for #PeerReview Week this year focused on reviewer capacity. The Diamond Reviewer Pledge invites researchers to commit to reviewing at least one article for a #DiamondOA journal in the next 12 months. 🔷 Take the pledge & join the discussion: tinyurl.com/56pwmkwm

🌍 The EDCH is heading to #OASPA2026! We’ll showcase how the EDCH, its NCCs and the #AEGISOA project are advancing a more coordinated and sustainable #DiamondOA landscape in Europe, including through the expansion to OA books. Looking forward to connecting with colleagues! @oaspa.bsky.social

💎 #DiamondOA is about more than removing fees. It’s also about who owns, governs and sustains #ScholarlyInfrastructure. @markhusk.bsky.social & @johanrooryck.bsky.social also explore how #DiamondOA can help build a more sovereign, resilient knowledge commons. 🔗 Full article: tinyurl.com/5fu8hua2

How to Build a Sovereign Global Knowledge Commons

The world’s scholarly knowledge system is extraordinarily vulnerable to commercial capture and political interference. Governments, funders, and policymakers must act to protect it.

katinamagazine.org

We've joined LinkedIn! 🎉 Connect with us for news, insights, and developments from across the #OABooks landscape, including #PRISM, new partnerships, events, and platform updates. Follow us here 👉 www.linkedin.com/company/dire...

💎 How can we strengthen funding for #DiamondOA in Europe? Join the second @almasiproject.bsky.social Diamond OA Policy Forum Europe meeting to explore funding approaches, models and opportunities for community-led scholarly publishing. 🔗Register: almasiproject.org/the-diamond-...

ALMASI project@almasiproject.bsky.social · 4w ago

🗓️ Register for the next ALMASI Diamond Open Access Policy Forums! They will focus on ways to fund Diamond OA. 📍DOAPF Africa - 17th Sept. urlr.me/npMhe5 📍DOAPF Latin America - 25th Sept. urlr.me/ecBXqJ 📍DOAPF Europe - 5th Oct. urlr.me/UeyWRY 🌐Cross-regional event - 5th Nov. urlr.me/bEtppb

🎓 Want to become a #DiamondOA trainer? Applications are open for the EDCH Train-the-Trainer course on #DiamondOA publishing, developed under AEGIS-OA. Turn your expertise into training you can deliver at your institution and in your community. 📅 Apply by 21 September ➡️ tinyurl.com/ymcvwby7

📢 Webinar: Introduction to WCAG How can we make digital tools, services and documentation more #accessible? Join the EDCH Tools & Technologies Task Force for a practical introduction to #WCAG, with lessons from ICM University of Warsaw’s experience. 📅 1 Oct, 11:30 CEST 🔗 tinyurl.com/yrv7w7uz

🌍 Help shape the future of #DiamondOA in Europe! EDCH is looking for new Advocates to connect with local communities, share resources, contribute to the EDCH Forum, and help shape services to meet community needs. Join our 2026–2027 cohort! 📅 Apply by 30 September 2026 🔗 tinyurl.com/5n7d7tp4

💎 Welcome, Diamond Ireland! Diamond Ireland is the Irish National Capacity Centre to support non-profit and community-led #DiamondOA publishing across Ireland and connect the Irish Diamond OA community with colleagues across Europe. 🔗 Learn more: tinyurl.com/2zmchv9d

🛠️ What’s in your #DiamondOA toolkit? We’re looking for community recommendations of tools that make publishing #DiamondOA journals and books easier. Share your favourites in the EDCH Forum! ➡️ Join the discussion: tinyurl.com/34j3akhr

🌍 Next week, the EDCH is heading to #PUBMET2026 in Zadar! We’ll be contributing to discussions on #DiamondOA, journal ownership, communities, and sustainable scholarly publishing through a presentation, a poster, and a workshop! Full programme: pubmet.hr/programme/ @johanrooryck.bsky.social

✨ Thoth Oasis in the spotlight! The European Diamond Capacity Hub (@eudch.bsky.social) has featured Oasis in its latest Tool Spotlight, exploring how open metadata can support better discoverability, interoperability & reuse for OA books and chapters 💎 forum.edch.eu/t/tool-spotl...

Tool Spotlight: Thoth Oasis

What is it? Thoth Oasis is a free, self-service open-source platform for managing and sharing open metadata for books and chapters. It enables open access book publishers to create structured, standar...

forum.edch.eu

🌍 New #DiamondOA projects in France! EDCH is contributing to two new initiatives: MOSAR, developing support models for Diamond journals, and Diamant’AIR, building local Diamond OA capacity. Together, they show how local approaches can scale across Europe. ➡️ Learn more: tinyurl.com/48srtjm6

💎 How do research evaluation systems shape #DiamondOA? The @almasiproject.bsky.social is inviting the #DiamondOA community to review its report on #ScholarlyPublishing evaluation systems. 📅 Consultation open until 4 September 2026 ➡️ Read the report & share your insights: tinyurl.com/vpes6rpn

🛠️ Tool Spotlight: THOTH Oasis A free, open-source platform, part of the @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social infrastructure, that helps #OpenAccess book publishers create, manage and export rich metadata for books and chapters in multiple standards. ➡️Explore the tool: tinyurl.com/78zhmwnk

💎FCT renews its support for the EDCH! The renewed investment will help strengthen community engagement, capacity building and services supporting #DiamondOA publishing across Europe. ➡️Read the full announcement: tinyurl.com/7zj8x5nu @pubinpt.bsky.social

🛠️ Tool Spotlight: BChemXtract BChemXtract is an open-source toolkit that makes chemical content more FAIR, reusable, and interoperable across #DiamondOA publishing workflows. ➡️ Explore the tool and join the discussion: tinyurl.com/2cbj734a @beilstein-institut.bsky.social

Diamond Open Access. Knowledge as a common good. | Drupal https://www.diamondopenaccess.ch/

Diamond Open Access. Knowledge as a common good. | Drupal

diamondopenaccess.ch

📂 How do you approach #DigitalPreservation? A new discussion on the EDCH Forum highlights digital preservation resources from @clockssarchive.bsky.social, including practical guidance and presentations for libraries, publishers, and researchers. ➡️Join the conversation: tinyurl.com/y28k737w

💎 Open Research Europe expands! New governance and eligibility criteria will offer more researchers the opportunity to publish #OpenAccess without author-facing fees and engage with the Publish, Review, Curate workflow. ➡️Explore what this means for the #DiamondOA community: tinyurl.com/2ebnh8dn

🌍 How can local communities help raise awareness of #DiamondOA? As an EDCH Advocate, @barbarahissa.bsky.social has promoted #DiamondOA through presentations, online outreach, and advocacy across her community. ➡️ Read more about our Advocates programme: tinyurl.com/4h345sbw

🌟How can researchers and institutions learn more about #DiamondOA? As an EDCH advocate, Remedios Melero has helped raise awareness of #DiamondOA through researcher training, conference presentations, and community outreach. ➡️Read more about our advocates programme: tinyurl.com/4h345sbw

💎 New EDCH Forum category: Funding Opportunities for #DiamondOA A new space to share and discover funding calls, eligibility details, deadlines, and opportunities to support sustainable #DiamondOA. Explore the category and join the discussion: tinyurl.com/7fftfc3v

🛠️ Tool Spotlight: JATS XML Converter Service Developed by SRCE, this service helps editors and researchers convert journal articles from .docx into JATS XML to support digital publishing, discoverability and interoperability for #DiamondOA journals. 🔗 Explore the tool: tinyurl.com/3tk7bu8r

🌟 How can #DiamondOA discovery be made easier for researchers and libraries? As an EDCH Advocate, Danny Smith developed a prototype search tool bringing together multiple journal databases, with the long-term aim of integrating Diamond Discovery Hub data. ➡️Read more: tinyurl.com/4h345sbw

ALMASI shares a new resource useful to everybody seeking to increase researchers engagement on #Diamond OA: 🔑Report on engagement of researchers 🔗https://zenodo.org/records/20940992