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Contribution short abstract:

Facing the Diamond OA project, as editor-in-chief of Anthrovision and co-editor of the Visual Anthropology section of the Journal des Anthropologues, I'm confronted with a double reality.

Contribution long abstract:

Diamond OA worldwide is a largely fragmented archipelago of 50.000 titles in Humanities and Social Sciences. ( Jan Szczepanski). Most of these journals are relatively small, but they represent 44% of all Online publications. The recommendations of OADJS was to build a Diamond Capacity Hub that would align, coordinate and improve the sustainability of Diamond OA. From https://thd.hypotheses.org/35, Pierre Mounier.

As editor-in-chief of Anthrovision and co-editor of the Visual Anthropology section of the Journal des Anthropologues, I'm confronted with a double reality. On the one hand, to publish text, images and sound online in a single medium, to have a trilingual journal with international accessibility. On the other hand, I'm faced with the injunction for paper/online journals to provide access to articles as soon as they are published or risk losing their funding. Even though both publications advocate free access, the consequences of OA are not the same.

Faced with the policy put in place by academic institutions and put forward by DiamonOA, it is very interesting and important to open a debate to clarify the procedures to be followed to protect online and paper journals, which do not have the same economic model.