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:
- Funding
- Legal Ownership, Mission, and Governance
- Open Science
- Editorial Management, Editorial Quality, and Research Integrity
- Technical Service Efficiency
- Visibility, Communication, Marketing, and Impact
- 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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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.