Open Access Australasia partners with DOAJ and lists local diamond journals

A new agreement and resource back no-fee scholarly journals in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.

By The Book Source5 November 20261 minute read

Open Access Australasia has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), according to its October newsletter, published on 5 November 2026. The two groups will work together on advocacy, knowledge sharing and capacity building for diamond and institutionally supported journals.

The newsletter also announced a new diamond open access resource, launched on 5 November. It includes a list of diamond open access journals published in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand and was developed by the diamond journal publishing subgroup of the Australian Scholarly Communications Community of Practice. It was launched at a webinar run with the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) that featured Joanna Ball of DOAJ.

Open Access Week events co-hosted by the group with CAUL, SPARC and OASPA drew nearly 2,000 registrations in October.

The group has also responded to the federal government's 2026 National Research Infrastructure Roadmap consultation, calling for sustained investment in open research infrastructure and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authority over Indigenous knowledge and data.

Original source: Open Access Australasia ↗

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