# Turgut R. (2026). We Have Enough Declarations. Now What? A Critique from Inside Diamond OA

**URL:** <https://forum.edch.eu/t/turgut-r-2026-we-have-enough-declarations-now-what-a-critique-from-inside-diamond-oa/1255>\
**Category:** Reading Corner\
**Tags:** diamond-oa, crisis\
**Created:** [9 November 2026 13:39 UTC](https://forum.edch.eu/t/turgut-r-2026-we-have-enough-declarations-now-what-a-critique-from-inside-diamond-oa/1255 "2026-11-09T13:39:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [9 November 2026 13:39 UTC](https://forum.edch.eu/t/turgut-r-2026-we-have-enough-declarations-now-what-a-critique-from-inside-diamond-oa/1255/1 "2026-11-09T13:39:05Z")

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A new Scholarly Kitchen article from our EDCH advocate @rturgutphd:

> During a panel discussion on open access, a volunteer editor interrupted me to express his frustration: “I am a simple man. Tell me concretely what you want me to do, and I will try to do it. But please, I cannot track all these declarations, action plans, frameworks, and principles. They make my job harder, not easier.” The room became silent. After forty minutes of debating the philosophical merits of the latest Diamond open access (OA) manifesto, no one could provide a concrete answer to his question.

**Read more: [Guest Post - We Have Enough Declarations. Now What? A Critique from Inside Diamond OA - The Scholarly Kitchen](https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/11/09/guest-post-we-have-enough-declarations-now-what-a-critique-from-inside-diamond-oa/?informz=1&nbd=&nbd_source=informz)**

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**Post date:** [10 November 2026 11:14 UTC](https://forum.edch.eu/t/turgut-r-2026-we-have-enough-declarations-now-what-a-critique-from-inside-diamond-oa/1255/2 "2026-11-10T11:14:39Z")

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Thank you for this, @rturgutphd. To answer the question at the end of your post from a small, founder-run Diamond OA journal on DergiPark (Lectio Socialis): the step that mattered most this year was turning a principle into a number we can be held to.

When we adopted our governance charter in October, we wrote DOAJ’s endogeny threshold into it as our own rule, not as a criterion we hope to pass: articles with at least one author who sits on one of our boards or edits for us may not exceed a quarter of the research articles we publish in a calendar year, and the actual share is published every year. Anyone can check it, and our independent board may lower the figure but not raise it.

A second, less visible step was getting our own Crossref metadata right after our publisher of record changed. It took more than two months, a support ticket and our sponsor’s cooperation, and no declaration would have shortened it.