Enhancing the Availability of Diamond OA Journals - A Short Course for Journal Editors and Managers

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  Introduction

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    Have you ever wondered what happens to your publications after your journal has been discontinued? 
    This self-paced course takes you through the essential topics to keep your publications available. 
    At the end, the course presents the implementation of these technical standards at a European publishing platform as a real life example.

    More courses are available via TIB's TOERN platform.

    Key takeaways: 

    • introduction to digital preservation and digital preservation services 
    • the benefits of and how to implement a self-archiving policy
    • an overview on open access repositories

    Estimated course time: 45 minutes 

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  Glossary

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    Glossary
• Select section Digital preservation ensures long-term availability of your publications

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  Digital preservation ensures long-term availability of your publications

  • Select activity Introducing digital preservation services

    Digital preservation ensures the long-term availability of your publications - even after they have been discontinued.
    And, in the words of Laakso et al. (2021, p.1099),"electronic resources are vulnerable to various threats, such as hardware or software failure, natural disasters, or economic failure". 
    This section provides you with all the essential information on ensuring your publication stays available through digital preservation.

  • Select activity Digital Preservation

    

    Digital Preservation Lesson

    This self-guided lesson includes information on digital preservation, its importance and a glance at publishing software that supports digital preservation.
    After completion, return to the main page to test yourself in the quiz or continue with the next topic.

    [This course does not offer any grades but is designed for self-guided learning. Therefore, no essay grades are awarded.]

  • Select activity Digital Preservation Quiz

    

    Digital Preservation Quiz

    After finishing the self-guided lesson above, this quiz serves as a self-assessment.

• Select section Self-archiving policies give your authors clarity

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  Self-archiving policies give your authors clarity

  • Select activity Self-archiving policies

     In this video, the platform manager of TIB Open Publishing, Xenia van Edig (TIB) offers a short introduction to self-archiving in Diamond open access publishing.

    At the end, you gain first hand insights on how a self-archiving policy was implemented at TIB Open Publishing.

    Video: Xenia van Edig (2025), Self-Archiving Policy – Benefits and Implementation at TIB Open Publishing, https://av.tib.eu/media/70589

  • Select activity Self-archiving Quiz

    

    Self-archiving Quiz

    Use this quiz to test your knowledge on self-archiving after watching the coffee lecture above.

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  Open access repositories provide possibilities for self-archiving

  • Select activity Open access repositories

    

    Open access repositories Lesson

    This self-guided lesson provides you with the essentials on open access repositories.
    It is built on the page created by open-access.network with the same title.

    After completing the lesson, return to the course page for a self-assessment quiz or to continue in the course.

  • Select activity Open Access Repositories Quiz

    

    Open Access Repositories Quiz

    You may take this short self-assessment quiz to test your knowledge on open access repositories.

• Select section How are others implementing this? A real life example from a European publishing platform

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  How are others implementing this? A real life example from a European publishing platform

  • Select activity Implementation example from TIB Open Publishing

    Often we learn the most from real life examples. They show theoretical concepts in practice and help us in transferring these concepts to our own publishing workflows.

    We chose the case of TIB Open Publishing as an example for how the technical aspects introduced in this self-course can be put into practice. 

    Aspects contributing to accessibility	Components
    Digital preservation	All contents are archived by the German National Library and the TIB archiving system/or Portico.
    Self-archiving policy	Authors retain copyrights and full publishing rights, see e.g. https://www.tib-op.org/ojs/index.php/agripv/about.

    For a larger number of examples, refer to the case studies section in Armengou et al. (2023).

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  Conclusions

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    After completing this self-paced course you have learned about the importance of digital preservation for the continued accessibility of your journal and how to implement digital preservation.
    You were also introduced to a simple way to produce a comprehensive self-archiving policy, using the example of TIB Open Publishing, and explored different types of open access repositories.
    TIB Open Publishing also served as a real life example for the implementation of these mesures which support the accessibility of your journal.

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  Additional ressources

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    If you're interested in learning more about technical standards that support the findability of your journal, we collected some ressources with additional training material below.

  • Select activity FAIR Publishing Self-Assessment Grid

    

    FAIR Publishing Self-Assessment Grid URL

    The FAIR publishing toolkit was created by Arnaud Gingold (AMU) in 2025. It is meant to help either publishers or publishing services undertake a self-assessment of their data collections according to the FAIR principles. The final goal is to increase the data and metadata quality of their content so it becomes more easily and more broadly discoverable.

    As a self-assessment toolkit, it provides a review grid that does not include any evaluation, especially since there is no automated assessment. It instead supports a manual, but guided, adapted, and open assessment of the FAIR principles implementation.

  • Select activity Basic Principles of Digital Preservation

    

    Basic Principles of Digital Preservation URL

    This self-paced course was created by TIB as part of the CRAFT-OA project. It provides an introduction to basic principles in digital preservation/long-term archiving. It represents the more theoretical part of the two-part course. A more practical approach may be found in the corresponding self-paced course "Practical First Steps in Digital Preservation".

  • Select activity Practical First Steps in Digital Preservation

    

    Practical First Steps in Digital Preservation URL

    This self-paced course was created by TIB as part of the CRAFT-OA project. It provides an introduction to practical first steps in digital preservation/long-term archiving. It represents the more practical part of the two-part course. A more theoretical approach may be found in the corresponding course, "Basic Principles of Digital Preservation".

  • Select activity EDCH Training

    

    EDCH Training URL

    The training platform developed as part of the European Diamond Discovery Hub (EDCH) provides a number of training modules designed to support Diamond Publishing Services and Technology Providers.