2nd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access

The global summit in Toluca (Mexico) has cleared the uncertainty for the need to consolidate the assertion that research output is a public good.

Global south countries, in serious efforts to find solutions to its challenges to share its research output, have embraced and grown diamond open access. For this summit there is cognition and support for more to be done to mainstream diamond open access. Further this summit set to affirm the rejection of APCs.

Further, there is a realization by funders that their support for APCs is not sustainable and they are now throwing their weight behind diamond open access, in particular, the financial components (the cost factor).

After a very successful summit, it is expedient that another global south region pursues the continuation of conversations and the consolidation of diamond open access.

The summit in Cape Town is intended to make explicit that financial barriers, for authors, are not the only challenge that has to be navigated to get published. The summit will, amongst others, unpack diamond open access through a social justice lens. One of the foci is the development of a publishing ecosystem that is devoid of bias, both conscious and unconscious.