Dr. Ramazan Turgut is Managing Editor at the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and serves as Ambassador for Crossref, the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), and OPERAS in Türkiye. Based in Zaandam, the Netherlands, he works at the intersection of open access publishing, scholarly communication infrastructure, and research evaluation reform. The views expressed are his own.
The Diamond OA community has built a declaration machine that runs in parallel with the under-resourced publishing machine it claims to serve, and the gap between them grows wider with every new communiqué.