Amsterdam, 1 December
Dutch academic organizations will jointly support the development of the Openjournals platform as a national infrastructure for Diamond Open Access publishing of scholarly articles.
A consortium of national academic organizations signed a Memorandum-of-Understanding late November to support the national Diamond Open Access platform Openjournals. The consortium consists of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), the KNAW Humanities Cluster (KNAW-HuC), the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), the Universities of the Netherlands (UNL), the University Libraries and National Library (UKB), and the National Library of the Netherlands (KB).
These organizations have an important role in the creation, use, dissemination and archiving of scientific information. Therefore they support a national infrastructure for publishing scholarly journals, which follow a Diamond Open Access publishing model. Openjournals operates as a national service and therefore the partners have agreed to make a joint commitment to the further development and survival of the Openjournals platform.
As a consortium, they take responsibility for the organization and funding of the Openjournals platform in the coming years, and together they will shape a sustainable organization and funding of the platform from 2028 onwards.
For publishing Diamond Open Access journals, both authors and readers pay no fees. Articles are made available to everyone free of charge, without subscription fees (as with traditional publishing) or publication fees for authors (as with Gold Open Access). In this way, scientific publications become widely accessible to all, without financial barriers.
Openjournals is a national platform for publishing scholarly Diamond Open Access journals. Openjournals is used by university publishers, research institutes and learned societies to publish their own scientific journals according to Open Science principles. Openjournals launched in 2021 and currently hosts nearly 40 scientific journals. Hosted by the KNAW Humanities Cluster, Openjournals is funded until 2027 by NWO, some universities and participating journals.
Click here for the full Memorandum-of-Understanding.
