The European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) is a collective that provides services for Diamond Open Access Publishers, Service Providers, and Tools & Technology Providers.
It takes its place alongside other regional Capacity Hubs such as Redalyc-Amelica and AJOL, and thus provides a gateway to the global Diamond Open Access community.
The aim of the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) is to regionally facilitate a globally distributed, aligned, high-quality, and sustainable scholarly communication infrastructure that is managed and owned by the scholarly community.
Its main role is to ensure alignment of Diamond Capacity Centers (DCCs) in Europe. The EDCH has at least the following tasks:
- Coordinate and streamline services and practices across DCCs; implement and monitor DIAMAS standards (DOAS).
- Manage a portal for shared resources such as the outputs of DIAMAS and CRAFT-OA projects
- Create efficiencies, complementarity, and subsidiarity between existing European DCCs, and stimulate the creation of new national DCCs across Europe.
- Pool and redistribute financial and service resources for Diamond Open Access in Europe.
- Organize exchanges of electronic publishing specialists across Europe with a view to increasing the professionalization of Diamond OA publishing.
- Set goals for the expansion of Diamond Open Access journals in Europe via a Diamondisation Task Force.
- Represent Europe in the Global Framework for Diamond Open Access coordinated by UNESCO.