Diamond or Platinum Open Access (OA) refers to scholarly journals that are free for readers to access and there are no article processing charges (APCs) for authors. These journals are supported by institutions, national or regional infrastructures, or are community-driven. A good example of a diamond OA platform is the the Open Library of Humanities.
USCA faculty members in English, Biology, and Education are editors of three peer-reviewed, diamond OA journals through our Scholar Commons Institutional Repository. See below to explore these excellent examples of diamond OA publishing. Contact Natalia Bowdoin, Amanda Nunnelly-Stewart, and your liaison librarian if you are interested in publishing a peer-reviewed diamond OA journal at USCA. We would love to expand USCA's presence in the diamond OA publishing world!
Another diamond OA model is Subscribe-to-Open (S2O). Under S20, libraries continue subscribing to a publisher's portfolio. In exchange, the publishers makes all articles available open access to a worldwide audience at no cost for the author.
For help finding diamond OA journals, search the Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ) and refine your search to journals without fees or contact your liaison librarian.
