Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A research funder that redirects part of its former journal-subscription budget toward supporting diamond open-access (no author fee, no reader fee) infrastructure and non-profit publishing platforms, rather than paying article processing charges to a small number of large commercial publishers, is acting in the direction the Jussieu Call recommends.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
An open-access policy that mandates only the 'gold' APC route -- requiring authors to pay a publisher fee to make an article open, regardless of format or publisher size -- runs counter to the Jussieu Call's specific objection to relying on a single dominant business model, even though it does achieve open access in the narrow sense.
Editorial commentary
The Jussieu Call takes its name from the Jussieu campus in Paris, where the declaration was launched on 10 October 2017 by a collective of French researchers and scholarly-publishing professionals working through the open-access segment of the Bibliotheque Scientifique Numerique (Digital Scientific Library) initiative.
Core principles
The declaration sets out eight principles, including: supporting a diversity of publishing actors and models (rather than one dominant business model); prioritizing innovative, non-APC publication models; reforming research-evaluation practices that currently reward publication in a narrow set of prestige venues; and redirecting institutional subscription spending toward sustainable, researcher-controlled publishing infrastructure. Its most quoted line states plainly: “Research funding should go to research, not to publishers!”
Bibliodiversity
The Jussieu Call popularized bibliodiversity as a term of art in open-access policy: the idea that a healthy scholarly-publishing ecosystem needs multiple coexisting models — diamond OA, society-run journals, national/regional platforms, APC-funded gold OA — rather than convergence on a single dominant model, commercial or otherwise.
Signatories and reach
The Call has been reported as signed by more than 100 institutions, including French research organizations (CNRS, INRA, IRD), international universities, professional information-science associations, and academic publishers and learned societies across Europe, Canada, Latin America, and India. It calls for an international consortium to coordinate existing and future open-science infrastructure initiatives.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the Jussieu Call the same as Plan S?
No — Plan S is a funder mandate requiring immediate open access for funded research; the Jussieu Call is a broader institutional/researcher declaration about the diversity of publishing models and infrastructure funding, not a compliance mandate. See CASRAI’s coverage of Plan S and Diamond OA for the funder-mandate angle.
How does the Jussieu Call relate to DORA or CoARA?
They address adjacent but distinct problems: DORA and CoARA focus on reforming how research and researchers are evaluated (moving away from journal-level metrics); the Jussieu Call focuses on the structure and funding of the publishing ecosystem itself. Its research-evaluation-reform principle overlaps with, and is often cited alongside, DORA/CoARA commitments.
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
<role vocab="credit"
vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
vocab-term="Jussieu Call for Open Science and Bibliodiversity"
vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/jussieu-call" />{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "DefinedTerm",
"@id": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/jussieu-call",
"name": "Jussieu Call for Open Science and Bibliodiversity",
"identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/jussieu-call",
"description": "The Jussieu Call for Open Science and Bibliodiversity is an open-access policy declaration launched on 10 October 2017 by a French collective of researchers and scholarly-publishing professionals, organized through the Bibliotheque Scientifique Numerique's open-access working group. It sets out principles for the open-access transition that explicitly reject reliance on a single dominant publishing or business model in favor of supporting a diversity of models, actors, and languages -- what the declaration terms 'bibliodiversity' -- and calls for redirecting subscription spending toward researcher-controlled, non-APC publishing infrastructure.",
"inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/knowledge-equity#set",
"url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/jussieu-call",
"sameAs": [],
"license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
"publisher": {
"@id": "https://casrai.org/#organization"
},
"author": {
"@id": "https://casrai.org/#editorial-team"
},
"datePublished": "2026-08-22T10:45:41",
"dateModified": "2026-09-04T07:25:47",
"inLanguage": "en-GB",
"isAccessibleForFree": true
}
