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Diamond open access

Published August 10 2020 | Revised November 27 2024

Diamond open access

Diamond open access is sometimes used to describe gold open access where publication is made freely available on the publisher platform and there is no fee to the author or their research organisation. It is typically used by publishers who are keen to emphasise that they do not charge authors to publish open access (also known as platinum open access).

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Business models for open access book publishing

Green, gold, diamond – different models for open access books