NEXT Event
The Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication
from 4-8 September 2023
Jeroen Bosman
Utrecht University Library (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Jeroen Bosman (@jeroenbosman) 
is a scholarly communications and geoscience librarian at Utrecht University Library. He is an expert in the field of open science and open access policy, practices and tools, as well as scholarly search engines and web search. His main interests are open access and open science in all academic fields, scientometrics, and visualisation and innovation in scholarly communication. He is an avid advocate for open access, open science,Scholarly Commons and for experimenting with open alternatives. He has 25+ years teaching experience in academic information skills and has led dozens of open science workshops, including internationally. He has a wide international network among all stakeholder groups in scholarly communication. He is co-lead of the 101 Innovations in Scholarly Communication project that surveys and charts developments in scholarly communication, research workflow tools and practices. He has co-authored numerous publications on open science and aspects of publication cultures. All activities are carried out in the open and resulting materials are fully open (CC-BY or CC0) and linked to his ORCID profile.
All OAI12 Sessions by Jeroen Bosman
Scholarly Publishing September 6, 2021
10:00 – 10:30
Funding the future: the role of diamond in sustainable, full and fair open access
In 2020, cOAlition S commissioned a study to gain insights into the OA publishing landscape of diamond journals and platforms, which are free to readers and authors. The research, conducted by a group of 10 organizations lead by OPERAS, aggregated data from an online survey that gathered around 1600 responses from journal editors across the globe, a quantitative analysis of data from bibliographical databases and a qualitative analysis based on focus groups of journal editors and interviews with infrastructure providers.
The findings of the study point to a wide archipelago of relatively small journals serving diverse communities, with a mix of scientific strengths and operational challenges (including compliance with funder mandates) and an economy that is characterized by a large dependency on volunteers, universities and governments, modest publishing costs and a variety of funding models.
In this presentation, we will discuss the various recommendations of the study to increase the capacity of community-driven/governed journals and platforms, connecting them and technically supporting them in a coordinated way. We call upon funders to consistently finance the operations of diamond journals and platforms and invest in the future of diamond OA.
We connect this plea for support for diamond open access to the bigger theme of the conference by suggesting some concrete ways towards full and fair open access based on a much larger role of diamond.
Slides available here: https://zenodo.org/record/5463664
12:30 – 13:00