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New in Research Professional today, Caroline Edwards discusses the professionalisation of Diamond publishing.
Whereas maybe previously seen as marginal, Caroline cites a growing number of high-profile journals which have flipped to diamond open access, their editorial boards resigning en masse from commercial publishers, furious with high prices and declining academic and production standards.
Is 2026 the year we see the mainstreaming of diamond open access?
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Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing - Research Professional News
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Thanks for sharing this Anna, a very interesting read! In line with this, there seems to be a growing trend in the community toward rethinking the role of commercial publishers and exploring more community-led publishing models.
I came across another piece on LinkedIn that also talks about the “drain of scientific publishing.” The authors describe the drain as “fourfold, depriving the research system of money, time, trust, and control”, and is a strong critique of commercial publishers.
While they don’t explicitly call for a move toward Diamond OA, they do argue that to address this issue, “scholarly publishing needs to be re-communalized." In their view, “universities, libraries, funders and other members of the academic community need to build a system that is community-led and managed, and which works to further research and education.”
Read here: [2511.04820] The Drain of Scientific Publishing
Abstract: The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science; we need the most powerful members of the research community – funders, governments and Universities – to lead the drive to re-communalise publishing to serve science not the market.
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Very interesting, indeed. It is natural that Gold OA publishers want to increase the output because it directly translates to revenue. Novelty and relevance of a result are co-equal criteria to soundness. Soundness is not enough.
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