Friedman J., Dallaire-Clark J., Duncan C., Holmes. A. (2026), How Two Canadian Organizations Created a National Model for Diamond Open Access

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Worth reading: this article on diamond open access in Canada and the CRKN–Érudit Partnership for Open Access. It shows how libraries and journals built a national, community-owned OA model without APCs, long before diamond OA was a common term. It really comes across as a diamond OA incubator: public funding for journals, strong library consortia, open infrastructure, and library-led publishing programs all working together.

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How Two Canadian Organizations Created a National Model for Diamond Open Access

The Canadian Research Knowledge Network and Érudit transformed their vendor-client relationship into a collaborative partnership to support open access without author-facing fees. What can we learn from their approach?