About Edinburgh Diamond

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. 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 the Edinburgh Diamond team and Senior Management, as well as an Advisory 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 Advisory Board reports to the University's Library Committee.

Publishing
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.

Tech
Simon Bowie, Digital Library Software Developer. Simon works full-time on the service and is the first point of contact for all tech-related queries.

Advisory Board Members

1. Andy Aydin-Aitchison, University of Edinburgh
2. Theo Andrew, University of Edinburgh
3. Kevin Ashley, Digital Curation Center, University of Edinburgh
4. Kate Bailey, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
5. Fiona Brown, University of Edinburgh
6. Jessica Cooper, University of Edinburgh
7. Gillian Daly, Scottish Universities Press
8. Marshall Dozier, University of Edinburgh
9. Laurence Horton, Digital Curation Center, University of Glasgow
10. Hannah Mateer, University of Edinburgh
11. Sarah McDonald, Edinburgh University Press
12. Colleen O'Neill, University of Edinburgh
13. Jacqueline Proven, University of St Andrews
14. Ianthe Sutherland, University of Edinburgh
15. Dominic Tate, University of Edinburgh
16. Rebecca Wojturska, University of Edinburgh 

Interested in publishing with us?

Find out more about publishing with Edinburgh Diamond