The DIAMAS and PALOMERA projects will organize a webinar on Tuesday 10 September 2024 from 14.00 to 15.30 CEST to engage learned societies and learn how to best support their publishing operations.
The learned society journal is the archetype of community-led scholarly publishing, a sector that serves many academic communities, cultures and languages. Learned societies are therefore at the heart of Diamond Open Access publishing: Diamond OA is free both to read and publish. Publishing journals, books and book series, learned societies may experience both challenges and benefits from publishing OA.
In its mission to foster Diamond OA publishing throughout Europe, the European DIAMAS project seeks to understand and mitigate the challenges that learned society publishers experience with OA scholarly communication. DIAMAS has over 20 partners from across Europe and represents hundreds of organisations across Europe: from universities to learned societies to publishers and funders.
The PALOMERA project project on policy alignment for Open Access books aims to accelerate the transition to OA for books through policy. PALOMERA has over 15 partners from across Europe and likewise represents diverse stakeholders for OA books publishing, including learned societies.
DIAMAS has undertaken evidence-gathering across Europe to see where the pain points are for OA publishers. A recent report shares insights into how Diamond publishers fund their operations and what they need to strengthen their sustainability in the future. Another report describes key characteristics in the landscape of institutional publishing across the European Research Area. This session will share these findings.
The financial sustainability of Diamond OA publishing is one area in which DIAMAS has developed knowledge and tools to support publishers. PALOMERA has investigated the funding element in policies for OA books publishing, which will be of interest to learned society publishers. In this webinar, partners on the DIAMAS and PALOMERA projects share insights into revenue streams for Diamond OA publishing, opportunities to save costs in OA journal and book publishing, while recognising the complex relationship between learned society publishers, their hosting organisations and their members or journal subscribers.
Both DIAMAS and PALOMERA are keen to learn how we can best support learned societies and their publishing operations considering their financial constraints. To what extent is sharing resources or services feasible? What funding models work well, and which ones are on their way out as far as you are concerned?
Join us in this webinar to learn from DIAMAS, PALOMERA and fellow learned society publishers how to resource Diamond OA publishing and OA publishing for journals and books, to explore the potential of collaborating to pool and save resources. We look forward to welcoming you.
The event will be held remotely (on Zoom). Registration here. The Zoom link will be sent to registered participants by email. The recording of the webinar and presentations will be made available after the event on the DIAMAS and PALOMERA webpages.
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For more information: MIkael Laakso, mikael.laakso[at]tsv.fi and Janne Pölönen, janne.polonen[at]tsv.fi
