It was the occasion to stress the need to support equitable access to scholarly publishing and reading with a focus on the quality of the content rather than on the publishing venue. [...] Joanna Ball (Managing Director of the Directory of Open Access Journals, DOAJ) presented the crowdfunding and collective action model that lies at the heart of the Directory of Open Access Journals, specifically noting the challenge of funding initiatives with an international outlook. [...] He presented the framework conditions that are necessary for scholarly publishing to change and the way forward in terms of building capacities underlined in the Conclusions of the Council of the European Union published in May 2023. [...] After looking back at the highlights of each presentation, Johan Rooryck (Exec- utive Director of cOAlition S, and Editor-in-chief of ‘Glossa: a journal of general linguistics’) and the speakers engaged in a broader reflection on a number of principles for the governance of the Global Federation including inclusiveness, multilingualism, diversity and community-drivenness. [...] The contributions to diamond open access made by researchers, organisations, institutions, journals, book publishers, and platforms should be identified and recognized when evaluating the efforts of each stakeholder towards the adoption and consolidation of Open Access, in particular, and Open Science, in general.
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