The publishing landscape for Open Access journals in Europe is highly diverse. However, often scattered among various organisations and institutions, many of these publishing services struggle to reach the necessary professionalisation and maturity levels required in state-of-the-art Open Access publishing. CRAFT-OA (Creating a Robust Accessible Federated Technology for Open Access) aims to change that. The project’s target is to make the Open Access landscape more resilient by centralising expertise, collaboration and a joint visibility/indexing layer.
Learn more about the project, and its objectives and become part of our community!

Our Goals

The project focuses on four threads of activities
to improve the technical and organisational infrastructure of Diamond OA.

Provide

technical improvements for journal platforms and journal software.

Build

communities of practice to foster overall infrastructure improvement.

Increase

visibility, discoverability and recognition for Diamond OA publishing.

Integrate

Diamond OA publishing with EOSC and other large-scale data aggregators.

News

  • CRAFT-OA welcomes the Barcelona Declaration
    In today’s academic landscape, the heavy reliance on closed infrastructures impacts the transparency and accessibility of scientific information. Despite efforts to monitor and incentivise open science, much of this work uses closed data systems that typically have low levels of data sovereignty and carry the risk of path dependencies. This practice often leads to biased… Read more: CRAFT-OA welcomes the Barcelona Declaration
  • Reusable Curriculum for Upskilling Training available as Gitbook!
    CRAFT-OA deliverable 2.2 “Reusable Curriculum for Upskilling Training” is now available as a Gitbook! Learn more on how to organise upskilling trainings here!
  • Operational Diamond OA criteria for journals released
    The DIAMAS and CRAFT-OA projects are happy to present their operational criteria for selecting Diamond OA journals to the community. This set of criteria has been issued to facilitate the identification of Diamond OA journals within the projects’ framework and services. Learn more here.
  • Save the Date: 8-11 October 2024
    CRAFT-OA is happy to announce the dates for the PKP Sprint organised by CRAFT-OA and the CRAFT-OA Tech Event.  Both events will take place in the same location in Turin, Italy. More information will be available soon.
  • DIAMAS Webinar Announcement
    Our colleagues from the DIAMAS project invite you to an insightful event which looks at the European Landscape of Institutional Publishing. Join them for a thought-provoking, 90-minute webinar where we will unveil the findings of our Institutional Publishing Landscape survey on Wednesday 7th February at 10:00 (CET). Our research delves deep into the intricacies that define… Read more: DIAMAS Webinar Announcement

Events

Work With Us

CRAFT-OA is a project from the OA community for the OA community. Engage with CRAFT-OA, shape the future of publishing and join the CRAFT-OA Tech Event & the PKP Sprint!

2nd day of the CRAFT-OA #TechEvent is starting and tackling topics such as the #indexation, #Authentication, #authorization, #ojs and the #Livinghandbook.

Want to learn more? Visit https://www.craft-oa.eu/results/ to get more details about what CRAFT-OA is working on.

#DiamondOA

📢 Calling Open Access Journal editors & publishers from Croatia & Serbia! Join our upcoming workshop to explore Open Journal Systems (OJS)

🗓️ Date: 30/10/24
🗣️ Dual language presentations 🇭🇷 🇷🇸

For full details and registration:

We are wrapping up #pkpTur2024 Day 2!

Keep an eye on http://pkp.sfu.ca for the upcoming release of the notes results, and highlights of each working group.

Thank you to all the attendees and our cohosts, @craftoa_project and @Unito for an amazing sprint!

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