What you need to know

As an editor, agree on everything that is important and appropriate with your authors; here you will find text templates for Diamond contracts.

As an author, check your publishing contract and suggest improvements if necessary.

The authors confirm that they are the original authors of the article / book.
Authors should keep their rights. They provide only non-exclusive rights of use for publication.

The authors agree to have their article published first in this publication.

The contract stated that the work will be published under a Creative Commons license (e.g. CC BY).

The author confirms that no third-party rights are infringed.

Contract samples: 

  • University of Zürich's Hope platform
  • University of Bern's BOP platform