Bengaluru Roadmap and Action Plan on Diamond Open Access

The Bengaluru Roadmap and Action Plan is the outcome document of the 3rd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access, organised in Bengaluru, India, from 2-6 February 2026.

Developed through a collective process led by the International Oversight Committee, it reflects the deliberations of 347 participants from 36 countries and sets out a shared global framework for transitioning scholarly communication toward a model that is free for authors and readers, community-governed, and grounded in the principle that scientific knowledge is a public good.

Building on the foundations laid at the summits in Toluca (2023) and Cape Town (2024), the Roadmap advances a coordinated global vision across six priority Action Areas:

• Integrating Diamond Open Access into national policy and legal frameworks
• Redirecting publishing expenditure toward community-governed infrastructures
• Reforming research evaluation systems so that they recognise Diamond Open Access publications, multilingual scholarship, and community-governed venues
• Strengthening shared infrastructure and interoperability
• Recognising and supporting the human labour behind scholarly communication
• Promoting linguistic diversity and marginalised knowledge systems.

Addressed to governments, research funding and performing organisations, universities, evaluation bodies, and scholarly communities, the Roadmap offers a flexible framework for action that can be adapted across national, regional, disciplinary, and institutional contexts.

Its implementation will be further examined at the 4th Global Summit on Diamond Open Access, to be held in Bali, Indonesia, in December 2026.