(29 Jan 2026) The Open Journals Collective (OJC) has announced the launch of its official investment campaign, inviting libraries to back a sustainable, community-led alternative to commercial scholarly publishing models.
Positioned as a scalable response to commercial “big deals” and so-called “transformative agreements”, OJC offers libraries a single mechanism to support a broad range of diamond open-access journals, without the administrative burden of multiple individual agreements.
OJC aims to return control of scholarly publishing to the academic community by enabling libraries to invest collectively in three launch collections, covering 284 DOAJ-indexed diamond open-access journals across arts, humanities and social sciences (AHSS), and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
Rather than negotiating numerous small agreements, libraries participate through a single, tiered membership model designed to protect bibliodiversity and sustain journals that are free to read and free to publish.
The announcement in full is here.
