International Open Access Week (International Open Access Week) will take place from October 19 to 25, 2026. This year, the event invites the scientific community to reflect on the cost of knowledge: who pays to create, share, and preserve scientific knowledge, and who truly benefits from this system?
For several years now, UniLaSalle has been committed to a rigorous approach to open science. The institution is a signatory to the DORA, the CoARA, and the Barcelona Declaration—three commitments that place the quality of research, rather than bibliometric indicators, at the heart of its evaluation. This commitment is reflected in very concrete terms by the involvement of several of our faculty members in diamond-access journals: scientific journals that are free for both authors and readers, with no publication fees or subscription costs, and supported by communities of volunteer researchers rather than commercial publishers.
Two examples illustrating UniLaSalle's commitment to Open Access
Sedimentologika
Sedimentologika is a diamond-access journal dedicated to sedimentology, stratigraphy, and related fields. It is indexed in the DOAJ and publishes under a CC-BY license. Julien Bailleul, a lecturer and researcher in sedimentology at UniLaSalle, serves on the journal’s editorial board, where he contributes his expertise in tectonic-sedimentation interactions, sequential and seismic stratigraphy, and the sedimentology of deep-sea environments. UniLaSalle hosts the non-profit association (under the French Law of 1901) that serves as the journal’s legal entity.
Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry (AGC)
Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry* is a diamond-access, community-driven journal dedicated to geochemistry and cosmochemistry. Olivier Pourret, a professor and researcher in geochemistry at UniLaSalle and the institution’s head of Scientific Integrity and Open Science, is a co-founder of the journal. As with Sedimentologika, UniLaSalle hosts the nonprofit association (under the French Law of 1901) that publishes the journal.
A Collective Commitment
By hosting the organizational structures of these two journals, UniLaSalle does more than simply support open access in principle: the institution becomes a structural player in the field, alongside its faculty members who volunteer their time to sustain a free, transparent, and community-driven scholarly publication.
On the occasion of Open Access Week 2026, UniLaSalle celebrates these commitments and invites its entire academic community to explore and publish in these diamond open-access journals.
