Workshop 2.5 | Libraries Leading Equitable Scholarly Publishing: Implementing the Diamond Open Access Standard
Date: Thursday, 2 July 2026, 16:00-18:00
Location: R23
Speakers:
Joanna Ball, DOAJ
Johan Rooryck, OPERAS
Marcel Wrzesinski, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Margo Bargheer, Göttingen University Library, Germany
European research libraries are increasingly supporting open access publishing while managing rising costs, and growing concerns around quality, sustainability, and trust. Many libraries are looking to support community-led, Diamond Open Access publishing as an equitable alternative to commercial publishing, but require shared, practical tools to assess, support, and scale these initiatives within their institutional contexts.
This workshop focuses on one of the services of the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH): the Diamond Open Access Standard (DOAS), a community-developed framework that can be used to strengthen and quality-assure community-led publishing. DOAS includes transparent criteria covering funding; legal ownership; open science practices; editorial management, editorial quality, and research integrity; technical service efficiency; visibility and impact; and equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging. As such, it provides a common reference point to support dialogue, development, and informed decision-making.
The workshop will introduce participants to the structure and scope of the Diamond Open Access Standard and explore how libraries can apply it in practice: to guide support for institution-based publishing, inform funding and service decisions, embed quality expectations in library-led publishing programmes, and articulate the value of community-owned publishing to institutional leadership and research assessment processes. Bringing in examples and experience from different European contexts, the workshop will demonstrate how DOAS can help libraries support academic freedom, bibliodiversity, and long-term sustainability in an increasingly uncertain scholarly communication landscape.
This workshop aligns with the conference theme “The Power of Libraries in an Uncertain World” by framing libraries as active contributors to equitable scholarly publishing. The proposal aligns most closely with Academic Freedom and Access to Knowledge and Leadership for Sustainability.