Community Recommended Resources for “The Cost of Knowledge”

  • Declaratoria de Ciencia Abierta del CSUCA (2023)

    Posición regional centroamericana, con énfasis en el uso responsable del financiamiento público y el ecosistema no comercial.

    Resource type: Declaration

    Authors: Consejo Superior Universitario Centroamericano (Central American Higher Education Council)

  • Directory of Open Metadata Policies

    Knowledge organizations across the globe have adopted policies that make their metadata openly available. The Directory of Open Metadata Policies compiles information about, links to, and excerpts from policies adopted by cultural heritage organizations, service providers, and libraries and library consortia of all types.

    Resource type: Dataset

    Authors: Stanford Center for Open Metadata

  • EIFL Guide: Quality in Diamond open access publishing

    Guide to support Diamond open access journal publishers to enhance the quality and credibility of their journals, and to encourage alignment with established best practices in scholarly publishing.

    Resource type: Guide

    Authors: EIFL

  • Landscape Report on Diamond Open Access Publishing in Africa, Europe, and Latin America: Executive summary

    Report provides an overview of the Diamond Open Access publishing ecosystem across 45 countries in Africa, Europe, and Latin America.

    Resource type: Report

    Authors: Pilar Rico-Castro, Virginia de Pablo Llorente & Laura Valeria Bonora

  • Open Metadata Policy Toolkit

    The Open Metadata Policy Toolkit is a detailed guide to drafting and adopting an institutional open metadata policy. It identifies critical policy components, offers sample language drawn from existing policies, and provides information resources to support policy decision-making.

    Resource type: Toolkit

    Authors: Stanford Center for Open Metadata

  • SPARC's Financial Landscape Analysis 2026: Scholarly Publishing & Research Analytics Companies

    Market analyses and suggestions for accompanying action to better navigate the rapidly evolving research and education environments.

    Resource type: Report

    Authors: SPARC, Claudio Aspesi

  • The centrality of the workforce for Diamond OA: Contractual, in-kind and voluntary work

    A short article describing how significant the workforce is to sustaining Diamond Open Access publishing and what challenges these workers face.

    Resource type: Article

    Authors: Andrea Davidson and Mateusz Francsak

  • Cost of Knowledge Accounting Analysis & Profitability Report

    Two new independent studies from the University of Sydney Business School measure that public investment and where the returns go.

    For the first time, researchers can count the investment that goes into a research article before a publisher ever sees it, and it shows who really pays for knowledge: the public. Set against independent estimates of publishing costs, more than 95% of the total investment in a published article is typically made by the public before submission to a publisher.

    Resource type: Tool, Article

    Authors: Nurul Alam, Jane Andrew, Max Baker, Janine Coupe, Tai-Joo Koh, Ben Lay, Chang Yuan Loh, Farzana Tanima