About Edinburgh Diamond

Edinburgh Diamond is the University of Edinburgh's Library Publishing Partner for Diamond Open Access books and journals led and owned by our academics, professional staff and students.

Edinburgh Diamond Books

Edinburgh Diamond Journals

Edinburgh Diamond exists to support community/academic-owned and governed journals and books. We champion Diamond Open Access as a viable publishing route for those who want to take it.

Diamond Open Access, to us, means:

  • It is free for eligible authors and editors to partner with Edinburgh Diamond to publish their book or journal
  • We do not own title copyright to the books or journals we publish
  • There are no fees for authors to submit to or publish in any books or journals we publish
  • All published content is openly licensed using Creative Commons licenses.

Eligibility: To partner with us, the main author or editor of a book/journal must be based at the University of Edinburgh, but other editorial team members, board members, peer reviewers and authors can be based at any institution globally. We accept, and encourage, works that are co-edited or co-authored with people from other institutions globally. Find out more about eligibility.

Governance & Ownership

Books

Book titles are owned by the editor or author under Creative Commons licenses. Books are published by the University of Edinburgh – a charitable body. Edinburgh Diamond – a service based within the University of Edinburgh Library – acts as the Publishing Partner by providing publishing services.

Journals

Journal titles are owned and governed by the respective journal editor(s) or society (as indicated on the journal 'about' pages). Copyright to papers published within journal issues are owned by their respective authors under Creative Commons licenses. Journals are published by the University of Edinburgh – a charitable body. Edinburgh Diamond – a service based within the University of Edinburgh Library – acts as the Publishing Partner by providing publishing services.

Edinburgh Diamond

Edinburgh Diamond is governed by a Service Board comprising of Library staff, editorial representatives from both academic and student-led journals and a representative from Edinburgh University Press. The Board meets twice a year and ensures the service develops in line with the University's strategic objectives as well as service user requirements. The Service Board reports to the University's Library Committee.

Publishing Team
  • Rebecca Wojturska, Open Access Publishing Officer. Rebecca works full-time on the service and is the first point of contact for all publishing-related queries.
  • Theo Andrew, Scholarly Communications Manager
Tech Team
  • Ronan Burnett, Open Hosting Developer. Ronan works full-time on the service and is the first point of contact for all tech-related queries.
  • Ianthe Sutherland, Development and Systems Manager

  • Theo Andrew, University of Edinburgh
  • Kevin Ashley, Digital Curation Center, University of Edinburgh
  • Kate Bailey, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
  • Fiona Brown, University of Edinburgh
  • Ronan Burnett, University of Edinburgh
  • Jessica Cooper, University of Edinburgh
  • Marshall Dozier, University of Edinburgh
  • Laurence Horton, Digital Curation Center, University of Edinburgh
  • Hannah Mateer, University of Edinburgh
  • Sarah McDonald, Edinburgh University Press
  • Jacqueline Proven, University of St Andrews
  • Ianthe Sutherland, University of Edinburgh
  • Dominic Tate, University of Edinburgh
  • Dominique Walker, Scottish Universities Press
  • Rebecca Wojturska, University of Edinburgh

Relationship with Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press (EUP) and Edinburgh Diamond are completely separate entities run from the same parent organisation – The University of Edinburgh. EUP is a long-standing traditional publisher of the arts, humanities and social sciences, whereas Edinburgh Diamond is library-led and offers free publishing services to staff and students of the University of Edinburgh who wish to publish Diamond Open Access books. Edinburgh University Press and the Edinburgh Diamond complement each other, providing different routes of publication to researchers. A member of EUP sits on the Edinburgh Diamond board.

Find out more about Edinburgh University Press.

Interested in publishing with us?

Find out more about publishing with Edinburgh Diamond

Edinburgh Diamond, Scholarly Communications Team

Contact details

Address

Information Services
Floor F East, Argyle House
3 Lady Lawson Street
Edinburgh
EH3 9DR

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