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Vision

The 3rd Global Summit on Diamond OA seeks to contribute to a resilient, equitable, and multilingual scholarly communication ecosystem underpinned by Diamond OA models and interoperable, public digital infrastructures. The Summit envisions strengthening Diamond OA across all disciplines by catalyzing collaborative governance, public investment, and sustainable infrastructure in a global knowledge commons.

Strategic Focus

  • Strengthening digital public-good infrastructures: Reinforce interoperable, community-owned platforms that support the full research lifecycle—from preprints to long-term preservation—positioning them as core components of national and international knowledge commons.
  • Promoting equitable and multilingual models: Advance APC/BPC-free, inclusive, and locally relevant publishing models that respect regional practices while amplifying research across diverse disciplines and global knowledge ecosystems.
  • Catalyzing collaborative governance: Foster shared governance frameworks across institutions, scholarly societies, and communities to ensure Diamond OA infrastructures are transparent, sustainable, and community-led.
  • Embedding supportive policy environments: Align institutional, national, and international policies with UNESCO’s Recommendation on Open Science and Digital Public Infrastructure, encouraging public investment in equitable scholarly communication systems. Encourage reforms in research assessment aligned with Responsible Research Assessment principles to foster recognition and widespread adoption of Diamond Open Access platforms.”
  • Enabling cross-disciplinary bridges: Integrate best practices from agriculture, health, environment, social sciences, and humanities to build collaborative, interdisciplinary knowledge commons that address both local priorities and global challenges.

 Aims

  • Consolidate and scale Diamond OA models across agriculture, allied sciences, and other research domains by fostering supportive policies, interoperable infrastructure, and sustainable funding mechanisms.
  • Facilitate equitable, inclusive collaboration among stakeholders from diverse geographies, disciplines, and institutional contexts.
  • Co-develop and strengthen governance structures for Diamond OA platforms, emphasizing community-led management, transparency, and long-term sustainability.
  • Embed Diamond OA within broader digital public infrastructure initiatives and align with national, regional, and global science policy agendas to ensure equitable access and participation. 
  • Foster knowledge co-creation through Responsible Research Assessment initiatives, while developing incentive structures that encourage researchers and institutions to actively engage with and support Diamond OA publishing

 Objectives

  • Convene a global, multistakeholder community to advance capacity building, sustainability, and a shared vision for Diamond OA.
  • Clarify operational models and share best practices that prioritize community governance over commercialization, ensuring equitable participation worldwide.
  • Address inequities in access, authorship, and visibility, with emphasis on underrepresented regions, languages, and disciplines.
  • Develop national, regional, and global implementation roadmaps aligned with Digital Public Infrastructure and Open Science frameworks.
  • Promote public funding, cooperative publishing, and governance innovation to sustain inclusive, community-driven Diamond OA ecosystems.

Summit Structure

The 3rd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access will adopt a multi-tiered structure, bringing together global, regional, and national stakeholders to facilitate inclusive dialogue, collaborative frameworks, capacity building, and actionable policy outcomes. Speaker selection for plenaries, thematic tracks, and workshops will prioritize both regional representation and gender balance to ensure diverse perspectives are included throughout the Summit.

Pre-Summit Activities

  • Indian Survey on Diamond Open Access: Engage journal editors, librarians, early-career researchers, and scholarly societies to assess readiness, identify infrastructure gaps, and understand key challenges.
  • Regional Landscape Mapping: Map repositories, journal platforms, metadata systems, and policy environments across South Asia in collaboration with partners such as INASP and UNESCO.
  • Global Pre-Summit Webinars: Co-hosted with Science Europe, DOAJ, COAR, SPARC, DIAMAS, the European Diamond Capacity Hub, FAO-AIMS, UNESCO, PKP, and other stakeholders, focusing on governance, capacity building, funding, and interoperability in Diamond OA.

Inaugural Session

The inaugural session will feature keynote addresses from senior officials and representatives across multiple levels. From India, speakers will include senior officials from DARE, DSIR, DST, DBT, DAE, DHE, and other relevant ministries. International perspectives will be provided by UN and intergovernmental agencies such as UNESCO, FAO, WHO, and WIPO. Global networks including DOAJ, AmeliCA/Redalyc, SPARC, CLACSO, OASPA, COAR, cOAlition S, OpenAIRE, Science Europe, and other relevant consortia will share insights and experiences. Speakers will represent diverse regions, including Asia-Pacific, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin and North America, North Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, with careful attention to gender balance.

Plenary Panels

The plenary sessions are designed to provide comprehensive, multi-stakeholder discussions on the current and future landscape of Diamond OA.

  1. Reimagining Scholarly Publishing for Equity and Inclusion: This session will chart a global vision for fair, inclusive, and multilingual scholarly communication through Diamond OA. Participants will explore diverse operational models “non-commercial,” “institutional,” “non-profit,” “community-owned,” or “no-fee” and engage in discussions to clarify these approaches. Emphasis will be on sustaining a community-driven ecosystem, prioritizing public and scholarly interests over commercial incentives, and fostering equitable access, bibliodiversity, and collaborative governance. Speakers will be drawn from Asia Pacific, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Americas, North Africa & the Middle East, and Europe, with a balance of stakeholders and gender-balanced representation to ensure diverse perspectives.
  2. Global & Regional Roundtable: Policy Convergence & Capacity Needs (UNESCO Session): This session will review global frameworks and regional policy alignment requirements, while discussing strategies for capacity building, particularly in the Global South.
  3. Building and Sustaining Open Science Infrastructure: Focused on governance models for public-good infrastructure, this session will explore interoperability, shared platforms, and national infrastructure priorities, including repositories, preprint systems, and publishing technologies.
  4. Research Assessment Policies: This session will examine responsible research assessment approaches, open metrics, and alternative impact models, with attention to aligning OA policies across regions and disciplines and the strategic role of governments, funders, and councils in sustaining Diamond OA.
  5. Scholarly Societies Meeting: Role of Societies in Diamond OA and Sustainability (led by SPH): Participants will discuss challenges and opportunities for scholarly societies as stewards of community-led, non-profit publishing.Young Researchers Meeting (led by INYAS): Early-career researchers will share their perspectives, focusing on capacity building, visibility, and leadership within the Diamond OA movement.

Thematic Tracks (Concurrent Sessions)

The concurrent sessions will focus on institutional, regional, and global initiatives to strengthen open infrastructures, while also addressing discipline-specific challenges and policy frameworks for building equitable, inclusive, and sustainable research systems. Particular attention will be given to advancing responsible research assessment frameworks and open research information practices that recognize research quality, innovation, and societal impact in science, engineering, and technology—moving beyond reliance on traditional metrics.

Track A: Agriculture, Climate Change, and Food Systems

  • Open access to agricultural and climate change research data.
  • Building open climate knowledge commons for food and nutrition security.
  • Integrating open publications, preprints, and repositories for resilient agriculture and climate adaptation.
  • Policies supporting sustainable farming practices, biodiversity, and food sovereignty.

Track B: Medicine, Public Health, and Life Sciences

  • Open data sharing for pandemic preparedness, disease surveillance, and public health equity.
  • Addressing challenges in clinical trial transparency and ethical considerations in OA publishing.
  • Strengthening life sciences publishing infrastructures with equity and multilingual inclusivity.

Track C: Engineering, Technology, and Applied Sciences

  • Open access for frontier technologies (AI, digital public infrastructure, renewable energy, space, etc.).
  • Building interoperable systems for research data, innovation, and industry partnerships.
  • Policies to align open engineering and technology outputs with sustainable development.

Track D: Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

  • Open Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences publishing models and integration with digital archives.
  • Supporting indigenous knowledge systems, multilingual publishing, and regional cultural heritage.
  • Strengthening collaborations with initiatives in the social sciences & humanities to expand equitable Diamond OA practices.

Poster and Contributed Sessions

These sessions will provide a platform for researchers, institutions, and networks to showcase national and regional case studies on:

  • Open Access policy implementation at institutional, national, and regional levels.
  • Global and local innovations in Diamond OA technologies, governance models, and open infrastructures.
  • Discipline-specific applications of Open Access in agriculture & climate change, medicine & public health, engineering & technology, and the humanities & social sciences.
  • Inclusive research assessment frameworks and equitable dissemination models that recognize diverse forms of knowledge, including indigenous and community-driven contributions.
  • Collaborative partnerships linking Global South and Global North efforts for sustainable, community-owned publishing systems.

Post-Summit Activities

The summit will conclude with the launch of Regional and Global Action Plans for Diamond OA, establishing frameworks for infrastructure, policy, and capacity development. Participants will also adopt the Bengaluru Roadmap for Diamond Open Access, forging a global consensus on values, strategic directions, and commitments toward equitable and sustainable knowledge systems.