Materia receives 2026 OASPA Open Access Innovation Award

Materia has been awarded the 2026 OASPA Open Access Innovation Award in recognition of its diamond open-access model and pathbreaking reproducibility initiative. The award citation noted Materia's requirement that all published research deposit data and code in recognised public repositories, its no-APC policy sustained over 12 volumes, and its active programme of author workshops in low- and middle-income countries. Editor-in-Chief Prof. Elena Vasconcelos said: "This award belongs to our authors, reviewers, and editorial board, who have shown that rigorous peer review and equitable access are not in tension — they reinforce each other."