Ornis Svecica is one of many scientific and scholarly journals hosted at Lund University’s open journal platform, Open Journals at Lund University (OJLU). Since 2019 the journal has been published openly accessible to anyone, with no cost to either author or reader, a publishing model often called “diamond open access”. We talked to Managing Editor Martin Stervander and Associate Editor Åke Lindström about the journal and their mission to study birds in Sweden.

Citizen science refers to ways of engaging non-researchers in research projects. The most common way of doing this is that volunteers help to either …