Scholarly Publishing: DIAMAS Project Introduces DOAS: The Benchmark for Diamond Open Access Quality

From a DIAMAS Announcement:

The Diamond OA Standard (DOAS) is a new tool brought to you by the DIAMAS project to promote quality in Diamond open access (OA) publishing. Serving as both a technical guide and a practical benchmarking resource, DOAS combines comprehensive guidelines with a self-assessment tool to elevate standards in scholarly publishing.

We have published a factsheet to help you understand DOAS.

Understanding DOAS: A Comprehensive Quality Framework

DOAS is based on essential and testable criteria across seven key components of scholarly publishing to ensure equitable, transparent, and high-quality practices. These components include:

1. Funding
2. Legal Ownership, Mission, and Governance
3. Open Science
4. Editorial Management, Editorial Quality, and Research Integrity
5. Technical Service Efficiency
6. Visibility, Communication, Marketing, and Impact
7. Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (EDIB), Multilingualism, and Gender Equity

Each of these areas is supported by detailed criteria and guidelines developed through rigorous analysis of existing standards and best practices, further refined by community feedback. By addressing these core components, DOAS advocates for a publishing model that is both accessible and governed by the academic community. The standards were outlined in DIAMAS project deliverable EQSIP.

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