Service Centre for Diamond Open Access

SeDOA is establishing a single point of contact for Diamond Open Access, raising the profile of existing publication infrastructures and helping to optimise them.

Zettel mit der Aufschrift Come in, we are open! — © Ulrike Wuttke

Project status:

Ongoing

Period:

31/12/2024 – 30/12/2027

Type:

Research project

Profile:

Digital Space – Data, Interaction, Knowledge

Organisational Unit:

Department of Information Sciences

Cooperation partners:

Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure Freie Universität Berlin (incl. former PH Berlin) Duke August Library Wolfenbüttel Humboldt University Berlin University of Applied Sciences Wuppertal/Bethel in Bethel (ev) Max Weber Foundation Berlin University of Technology Braunschweig University of Technology Darmstadt University of Technology University of Hamburg University of Heidelberg ZB MED Information Centre for Life Sciences ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

Project participants:

Christine Burkart Sabine Günther Ulrike Wuttke

The project contributes to increasing the efficiency of Diamond Open Access (DOA) publishing in Germany by supporting the currently decentralised institutions in improving their technical and procedural services and providing central innovations for Diamond Open Access publishing.
The project will deal with both Open Access journals and Open Access books. The goals to be achieved in the course of the project start with the establishment of a functioning governance, both for the project and provisionally for its long-term successor. This includes integration into the German communities of practice involved in Diamond Open Access Publishing, as well as into
international networks. The project thus establishes the German Diamond Open Access Capacity Centre, which works closely with the European Diamond Capacity Hub and the Global Diamond Open Access Alliance. The project will provide publishing opportunities at existing DOA sites or
via project-specific services, acting both as a service facilitator and service provider. It will provide guidelines and workshops for the community and focus on discipline-specific and international networks. To increase the visibility and quality of
metadata, the project will map Diamond Open Access publications in Germany and establish a database-driven registry that builds on existing databases. To invest in the future of Diamond Open Access publishing, the project will set up a lab that will develop innovative
publication models and serve as a sounding board for all relevant DOA stakeholders.