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Unesco would provide secretariat in effort to align scholarly publishing initiatives
A consultation process has been launched to plan the creation of a global alliance to shape the development of ‘diamond’ open-access scholarly publishing.
Under the diamond model, papers are made openly available at no cost to readers or authors, through platforms funded at an organisational level.