3rd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access

Collaboration for Equitable Digital Infrastructures and Knowledge Commons in Agriculture and Broader Scientific Research Systems

02>06 Feb. 2026
Register before 30-01-2026 12:00

Diamond Open Access is a community-led scholarly publishing model without financial barriers for authors or readers, making knowledge available as a global public good. It promotes equity, sustainability, multilingualism, and bibliodiversity, aligning with the Budapest Open Access Initiative, the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access, and the Global Digital Compact.

The Global Summits on Diamond Open Access are pivotal gatherings that unite stakeholders from across the globe to advance a scholarly communication system that is equitable, sustainable, and community-driven. 

The 3rd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access, building on successful events in Toluca, Mexico (2023) and Cape Town, South Africa (2024) will take place in Bengaluru, India between 2-6 February 2026.

Science Europe is proud to be a collaborating and supporting organisation, working alongside other local, national and global partners to strengthen sustainable, community-led scholarly publishing and to advance Diamond Open Access in Europe and worldwide.

About the 3rd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access

The upcoming 3rd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access will build on the outcomes of the previous Summits. It will feature high-level plenaries, thematic tracks, and interactive workshops on equity, multilingualism, research assessment, and policy alignment. Posters and case studies will showcase innovations from around the world.

Sessions are designed to foster inclusive dialogue, collaboration, capacity building, and actionable policy outcomes, with careful attention to regional representation and gender balance, ensuring diverse global perspectives in every discussion.

The Summit will culminate in the Bengaluru Roadmap for Diamond OA and the launch of Regional and Global Action Plans, advancing the mission of making research a public good through equitable, sustainable, and community-driven practices.

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Key Focus Areas

  • Public digital infrastructures:
    Build and provide sustainable funding for resilient, interoperable, community-owned public infrastructures and platforms that serve the research lifecycle and the public good.
  • Equity, inclusivity & multilingualism:
    Develop inclusive publishing models that amplify the linguistic and epistemic diversity of knowledge systems and publication formats and can address technological challenges.
  • Collaborative & inclusive governance: 
    Adopt transparent and inclusive governance frameworks for institutions and scholarly societies and develop responsible research assessment.
  • Supportive policies & global leadership:
    Align worldwide institutional and government policies for Open Access with UNESCO’s Open Science & Digital Public Infrastructure frameworks
  • Cross-disciplinary bridges: 
    Integrate scholarly perspectives on agriculture, health, environment, social sciences, and humanities.