Shine bright like a diamond: what can library hosting services offer in the academic publishing market?

Dishman, C ORCID: 0000-0001-6369-2647 and Wojturska, R ORCID: 0000-0003-2840-2207 (2025) Shine bright like a diamond: what can library hosting services offer in the academic publishing market? Insights the UKSG journal, 38. ISSN 2048-7754

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Abstract

This article provides a summary of the library-based diamond open access (OA) publishing services offered by Edinburgh Diamond at the University of Edinburgh and the Open Journals Service at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU). The article, based on a presentation given at UKSG 2024, looks at similarities and differences observed by the managers of the two services and, although Edinburgh Diamond also publishes books, will focus predominantly on journal hosting. It also looks at the advantages of running a hosting service, before reviewing some key factors to consider: skills and personnel, financial and business models and overall sustainability. This article concludes by looking to the future and what the two services hope to achieve.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	4610 Library and information studies
Subjects:	L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Z004 Books. Writing. Paleography Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Z665 Library Science. Information Science
Divisions:	Library Services
Publisher:	Ubiquity Press
Date of acceptance:	14 March 2025
Date of first compliant Open Access:	11 November 2025
Date Deposited:	11 Nov 2025 13:18
Last Modified:	11 Nov 2025 13:30
DOI or ID number:	10.1629/uksg.707
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/27546

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