Who we are.
We are Academics.
We are academic authors, editorial boards, and scholarly associations calling for transformative change to the way in which our research is published and disseminated. We stand united against the commercialisation of our work by global publishing corporations.
We are Librarians.
We are library directors, subject librarians, and open research specialists who reject the current profit-driven publishing model. We want to divest library budgets away from commercial packages and invest in a sustainable community-led publishing future.
We are Publishers.
We are trusted university presses, non-profit publishers and scholarly associations with decades of experience publishing high-quality academic journals. We want our journals to be open access and integrated into a system of open infrastructure that places our values above profits.
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“The Open Journals Collective offers libraries a practical way to support the growing ecosystem of community-led diamond open access journals. We’re delighted to support this initiative at the University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives.”
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“We’re excited to support the Open Journals Collective and look forward to collaborating. It’s vitally important to improve, innovate and diversify the publishing landscape. We need more community-led initiatives and discussions about changing our publishing cultures.”
OJC Library Members.
Carleton College
Duke University
Francis Crick Institute
Imperial College
Iowa State University
TU Delft Library
UC Berkeley
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UCLA
UC Merced
UC Riverside
UC San Diego
UC San Francisco
UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Cruz
University College London
University of Birmingham
University of Bristol
University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives
University of Durham
University of Edinburgh
University of Exeter
University of Leeds
University of Liverpool
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
University of Massachussetts Lowell
University of Newcastle
University of Reading
University of St Andrews
University of York
OJC Publishing Members.
Aberdeen University Press
African Journals Online
Belgian-Dutch Society for the History of Science and University
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
Center for Digital Humanities, Princeton University
CINQUILL Medical Publishers
Critical Public Health Network
Edinburgh Diamond at the University of Edinburgh
Érudit
eScholarship Publishing at the California Digital Library
Free Journal Network
LSE Press
MathOA
Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan
Open Library of Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London
Open Press TiU, Tilburg University
Pluto Journals
Programming Historian
Royal Netherlands Historical Society
Stockholm University Press
UCL Press
University of Pennsylvania Press
University of Westminster Press
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"Investing in infrastructure and architecture for diamond open access is necessary. UMass Lowell should not have to pay more than the cost of a commercial trip to space, a 59-foot luxury yacht, and a 2026 Mercedes-Benz GLE 350 to subscribe to journals from just three publishers every single year."
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“Joining the Open Journals Collective gives us an exciting opportunity to reshape the scholarly communications landscape by supporting scholar-led, openly published journals.”