(1 Apr 2025) Open Journals Collective (OJC), an equitable, sustainable, community-led alternative to the big deals and transformative agreements offered by corporate academic publishers is recently launched.
The OJC is a collective of libraries and university-based publishers working to change the way academic research is supported and disseminated. Drawing on more than a decade of digital publishing innovation, the OJC confronts the crisis in academic journal publishing with a viable path toward bringing publishing back in-house at universities. We will launch a large collection of hundreds of diamond open access journals in the humanities and social sciences in January 2026.
Publishers that have already joined the OJC include the Open Library of Humanities, LSE Press, UCL Press, the University of Michigan Press, the California Digital Library, and Edinburgh Diamond at the University of Edinburgh — with more publishers joining soon. While we are primarily based in the US, Canada, and the UK, we are also actively working with colleagues in Europe and beyond.
Learn more about OJC: : 
www.openjournalscollective.org
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