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Diamond Open Access (also Gold Open Access without APC) is a term for journals that do not charge researchers for access to articles or for the publication of articles. The publication of articles is therefore (also but not only) not associated with costs for researchers at Clausthal University of Technology.
KOALA - acronym for Konsortiale Open-Access-Lösungen aufbauen establishes consortial solutions for financing open access. The joint financing of open access journals and book series by academic libraries, research institutions, associations and companies represents an alternative to the dominant APC model, in which articles are paid for individually by authors or their institutions.
Further information can be found here.
Funding via a consortium model ensures the continuation of this business model for five journals in the field of mathematics and computer science over the next three years. The following journals will be funded:
- The Electronic Journal of Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations
- Logical Methods In Computer Science
- The Australasian Journal of Combinatorics
- TheoretiCS
- Épijournal de Géométrie Algébrique
More information on this project can be found here.
Open Library Economics (OLEcon) supports journals in academic sponsorship that want to convert their business model to Diamond Open Access in the long term.
This consortium is supported by the ZBW (Leibniz Information Center for Economics). The ZBW supports the funded journals in setting up sustainable alternative financing and offers advice on the entire conversion process.
Detailed information on this project can be found here.