FedOSC Webinar - Open Access Explained: From Green to Diamond

In the scope of the FedOSC project, this webinar took place on Feb 25th, 2026, as an introductory webinar dedicated to Open Access. This session offered a practical tour of Open Access, introducing its main models (Green, Gold and Diamond), and focusing on how they are implemented in practice, what they enable, and the trade-offs they involve. Through concrete examples and a use case from FedOSC's very own federal ecosystem, we went beyond definitions to explore how Open Access choices are made and applied in day-to-day research contexts. Nienke Roelants (Policy Officer, European Research Area - Open Science, BELSPO) opened the webinar with an introduction to the main open access concepts and models. Isabelle Gérard (Head of Publications, AfricaMuseum) shared insights from the European Journal of Taxonomy, a concrete example of diamond open access in practice. Virginia de Pablo Llorente (Communication Officer Open Science, Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT)) presented the Diamond Open Access Standard (DOAS) and its self-assessment tool.