# Paper on Diamond OA and knowledge sovereignty

**URL:** <https://forum.edch.eu/t/paper-on-diamond-oa-and-knowledge-sovereignty/1074>\
**Category:** Reading Corner\
**Tags:** sovereignty\
**Created:** [10 September 2026 12:17 UTC](https://forum.edch.eu/t/paper-on-diamond-oa-and-knowledge-sovereignty/1074 "2026-09-10T12:17:49Z")\
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Another reason for Diamond OA? Knowledge sovereignty!  
[Mark Huskisson](https://www.linkedin.com/in/markhuskisson/) and I wrote an article on knowledge sovereignty and Diamond OA with an appeal to funders and policymakers: “No country would completely outsource its military security and defense to commercial control. Nor should science fully entrust scholarly communication to corporations that are vulnerable to fluctuations in article production and takeovers by political and financial actors who are hostile to open science.”

Read it here: [https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2026/how-to-build-a-sovereign-global-knowledge-commons#](https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2026/how-to-build-a-sovereign-global-knowledge-commons#)