IOAP Awards

The winners of the Inaugural Diamond OA Publishing Awards were announced at the Inaugural IOAP Conference, March 12th, 2024. Scroll down to obtain information on the judging panel. A huge thanks to all of the judges for their time and expertise. Further information on judging criteria and nomination procedures here.

Congratulations to all of the winners.


Category 1

Best Peer Reviewed Open Access Journal

Alphaville, Journal of Film and Screen Media


Category 2

Best Peer Reviewed Open Access Monograph

This category did not have any valid entries


Category 3

Best Open Educational Resource

MTU Assignment Toolkit


Category 4

Outstanding Contribution to the Open Access Publishing Field in Ireland

Joint Winners

Yvonne Desmond, formerly TU Dublin

The Team of Scenario, A Journal for Performative Teaching, Learning, Research. 

Honourable Mention: Professor Peter Coles, Maynooth University




Judging Panel

Judith Barnsby

Head of Editorial

Directory of Open Access Journals

Bio

Jane Burns


Director of Education and Public Engagement 


Technological University of the Shannon (TUS) 


Bio

Dr Catherine Cronin

Independent Open Educator and Researcher

Bio

Open Access Advisor

UiT Arctic University of Norway

WP Lead EU Project DIAMAS

Bio

Mark Huskisson 

Senior Consultant PKP


Co-Chair of the Commons OPERAS


Bio





Dr Graham Stone

Subject Matter OA Monograph

JISC

Bio

Dr Lai Ma

Assistant Professor, 

School of Information and Communication Studies

University College Dublin

Bio