written by Hanna Varachkina
The visibility of the Diamond Discovery Hub (DDH) continues to grow. Following its inclusion in Mir@bel the DDH is now featured in two further sources: the Electronic Journals Library (EZB) and the ISIDORE platform for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
DDH in the Electronic Journals Library (EZB)
The EZB, maintained by the University Library of Regensburg, provides structured and unified access to electronic journals across all disciplines and publishing models. Researchers can access information on over 120,000 journals via the EZB’s multilingual user interfaces. The EZB is used by more than 660 institutions worldwide.
Recently, a new category, “Indexed in DDH,” was added to the service and is also available in the advanced search. Integrating the DDH into the EZB will increase the visibility and reach of Diamond Open Access Journals.
DDH as a Source in ISIDORE
In parallel, the ISIDORE platform serves as a comprehensive search engine and discovery tool for digital resources in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), offering access to publications, corpora, databases, and research data enriched with multilingual metadata. ISIDORE has added the DDH as a source, listing over 280 of its journals. The selection was made by the ISIDORE crawler, and AI detects the link to journals.
This inclusion connects DDH data to ISIDORE’s multilingual and semantically enriched discovery environment, enabling users to explore Diamond journals alongside other open research data and publications.
With the addition of Mir@bel, EZB, and ISIDORE, the Diamond Discovery Hub strengthens its position as an authoritative reference for Diamond Open Access publishing. These integrations demonstrate the value of collaboration and interoperability, helping scholars, research organisations and other stakeholders more easily find and support Diamond OA journals. As more platforms connect to and reuse DDH data, the Diamond model becomes not only more visible but also more sustainable. Together, these developments mark another milestone for the DDH and the broader Diamond OA community.
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