Sedimentologika 3 years after the opening : reflecting on diamond open access and scholarly-led ventures in scientific publishing

Sedimentologika (e-ISSN 2813-415X) is the community-driven, Diamond Open Access scientific journal dedicated to advancing the field of sedimentology. As a Diamond Open Access journal, the content is freely available to read and share, and the journal is free to publish in.Sedimentologika is an international, broad-scope journal that publishes high-quality scientific research on sedimentology, stratigraphy, and related fields. The journal accepts research with widely applicable advances in sedimentology, as well as regional case studies of interest to the sedimentology community, regardless of spatial and temporal scales, on Earth or any other planetary body. It also encourages interdisciplinary studies that link sedimentology to geochemistry, palaeontology, microbiology, archaeology, geomorphology, meteorology, hydrology, paleoclimate, tectonics (amongst others), and transdisciplinary studies that encompass sedimentology in society, education, and technology. Finally, Sedimentologika also aims to foster an inclusive and diverse environment within sedimentology, stratigraphy, and related fields (Thomas et al., 2023).Since its opening in fall 2022, it has published 4 issues and is growing slowly in the sedimentary sciences field. Its growth compares with other newly created and scholarly-led Diamond open access journals, reflecting a community that relies on society journals operating under hybrid or gold open access managed by large for profit publishing companies. While the growth is satisfactory in such environments, it relies on the increasing contribution of researchers, in a system where not all country value the inputs of scholarly-led ventures without impact factor, and where scientific publishing is seen more and more as a service, and less as a joint effort to strenghten a scientific field. In this way, reconsidering editorial, reviewing and copyediting contributions as part of an added value for a scholar career is essential and necessary if fairer modes of publications are to be achieved in a near future. Thomas, C., Privat, A., Vaucher, R., Spychala, Y., Zuchuat, V., Marchegiano, M., Poyatos-Moré, M., Kane, I., & Chiarella, D. 2023: Sedimentologika : A community-driven diamond open access journal in sedimentology. Sedimentologika, 1.