Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A funder invests in non-English-language regional journals as part of an OA portfolio.
- Is an instance
A library actively indexes and promotes content from Redalyc, SciELO and AfricArXiv alongside Western publishers.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
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Excluding non-English journals from institutional citation databases used in assessment.
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OA mandates that effectively force researchers into APC-charging commercial venues.
Editorial commentary
Bibliodiversity is borrowed from the cultural-policy concept of biodiversity and adapted for scholarly publishing by the 2017 Jussieu Call. It opposes the consolidation of scholarly communication into a few large commercial publishers, English as the de facto language, and APC-funded models. Practical implications include support for non-English-language journals, for community-run platforms (SciELO, Redalyc, AmeliCA, African Open Science Platform), for diverse business models (diamond OA, S2O, mission-driven publishing), and for DOAJ as an indexer of community-led OA publishing worldwide.
The Jussieu Call, specifically
The Jussieu Call for Open Science and Bibliodiversity was launched on 10 October 2017 by a French collective working through the Bibliothèque Scientifique Numérique open-access working group. It sets out eight principles, including publisher and business-model diversity, support for non-APC models specifically, reform of research evaluation away from journal-brand proxies, and redirecting money currently spent on subscriptions toward shared scholarly infrastructure — captured in the Call’s own framing, “research funding should go to research, not to publishers.” It has attracted more than 100 institutional signatories, including CNRS, INRA and IRD, alongside international signatories beyond France.
How the concept cashes out for a research office
Bibliodiversity is a principle, not a single metric, but it has concrete implications for institutional policy: citation databases and hiring/promotion criteria that only recognise Northern, English-language, commercially-indexed venues work against it directly, while OA-fund policies that explicitly cover non-APC and diamond venues (see Redalyc, AmeliCA) work with it. See also multilingual scholarship and Global-South publishing for the language and geography dimensions specifically.
References
- Jussieu Call (jussieucall.org), 2017. UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science 2021. DOAJ (doaj.org).
Also known as
Scholarly bibliodiversity
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