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.
News
- Calling OJS users: help integrate Open Access journals into EOSCPilot a technical component developed by CRAFT-OA Do you represent an Institutional Publishing Service that uses or supports the use of Open Journal Systems (OJS) to publish Open Access Journal(s)? If yes, the CRAFT-OA project (funded by the European Union, Grant Agreement no. 101094397) would like to collaborate with you. We are advancing the integration… Read more: Calling OJS users: help integrate Open Access journals into EOSC
- PKP Turin 2024 Sprint notesGood news for everyone interested in the activities and results of the PKP Turin 2024 Sprint: PKP has published the report on the Sprint. Find the report here.
- CRAFT-OA welcomes the Barcelona DeclarationIn 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 releasedThe 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.
Events
- 22 May, 2025, 10:00-11:30 CEST: Webinar – “Research Assessment in Transition: Open Infrastructures, Policy, and Diamond Open Access”Three European Commission-funded projects, GraspOA, CRAFT_OA, and DIAMAS, each focus on a different aspect of building a strong Open-Access Publishing infrastructure. At this webinar, we’ll discuss how the infrastructure supporting Diamond Open Access publishing can also support a more open approach to research assessment. To learn more about the webinar and register, go here.
- 28 May 2025, 9am UTC: EIFL Webinar on OJS Best Practices and Use CasesEIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) is a not-for-profit organization that enables access to knowledge through libraries. In 2025, it implemented a series of webinars to help educate the public on implementing Open Journal Systems (OJS), a free and open-source software. Using practical examples from scholarly journals in different countries, the webinars provide helpful information and… Read more: 28 May 2025, 9am UTC: EIFL Webinar on OJS Best Practices and Use Cases
- 1 April 2025, 1pm (CEST): Metadata Introduction & Metadata Healthcheck Webinar with CrossrefWould you like to learn why good metadata is important and how to assess the quality of your metadata on Crossref? Join this hands-on session for an introduction to metadata and the Participation Reports tool. The workshop will show why good metadata matters and help you improve your metadata completeness and quality. Register for the… Read more: 1 April 2025, 1pm (CEST): Metadata Introduction & Metadata Healthcheck Webinar with Crossref
- 5 Mar 2025: CRAFT-OA Coffee Lecture – “Technical standards of journal hosting. An overview for beginners” (English)If you are new to Open Journals Systems (OJS) or struggling with the basics of using it for your open access journal, join this short lecture by Oliver Krüger from SUB Hamburg. The “Technical Standards of Journal Hosting. An Overview for Beginners” session will focus on Public Knowledge Project’s (PKP) Open Journals System (OJS) and… Read more: 5 Mar 2025: CRAFT-OA Coffee Lecture – “Technical standards of journal hosting. An overview for beginners” (English)
- 23-27 June 2025: 2nd CRAFT-OA Summer School for Journal Editors in Coimbra, PortugalAre you an academic journal editor looking to enhance your skills, explore the latest development in Open Journal Systems (OJS), or connect with like-minded professionals in Diamond Open Access publishing? The 2nd CRAFT-OA Summer School for Journal Editors is the perfect opportunity for you! Building on the success of our first summer school, this event… Read more: 23-27 June 2025: 2nd CRAFT-OA Summer School for Journal Editors in Coimbra, Portugal
CRAFT-OA is funded by the European Union under Grant Agreement no. 101094397. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.