What is the Diamond Discovery Hub?
The Diamond Discovery Hub (DDH) will be a comprehensive registry of institutionally published and scholar-led Open Access Journals in Europe. It will be implemented as a responsive, WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) compliant website with an SEO friendly UI. The DDH will be scalable, easy to maintain, and possible to expand in the future. It will be a service that provides Diamond journals’ data curated by an editorial team. In June 2025, a link to the website will be available from the European Diamond Discovery Hub (EDCH) “services” page.
What does Diamond Discovery Hub achieve?
The DDH will operationalise the “Diamond Open Access” concept through comprehensive parameters and functionalities for data collection. It will make new facets of diamond publishing visible, such as governance and mission. The DDH will strengthen Diamond Open Access publishing of journals from the public and/or institutional sector, owned and operated from within academia or researchers. It will display the most extensive possible set of diamond journals for stakeholders. Readers & authors, Research Performing Organisations, and funders can assess the nature of Diamond Open Access journals and their publishers. Diamond Open Access journals become visible within a larger collection of institutional journals, highlighting the diamond model. Publishing and Institutional Service Providers can help their journals get their data aligned, improved, and harmonized for broader dissemination, thus reaching recognition for their diamond effort. Aggregators can reuse the index to retrieve data from diamond journals compliant with their requirements. DDH will also provide a trusted observatory of diamond publishing channels for policy making and further improvement of the publishing sector.
Learn more about the Diamond Discovery Hub
– Webinar Recording about the DDH from 24 Oct 2024 (in English): “Refining Croatian Journals for a Diamond Open Access Future” [14 minutes]
– Poster on the DDH (in English): https://zenodo.org/records/8307974
– Abstract from Munin Conference 2024 workshop (in English): DOI: https://doi.org/10.7557/5.7810
– Workshop summary from Open Acesss Tage 2024 (in German) : https://open-access-tage.de/open-access-tage-2024-koeln/koeln/programm/dienstag-10092024
– Abstract from PUBMET 2024 conference (in English on page 14): https://pubmet2024.unizd.hr/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/BoA_PUBMET2024.pdf