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
- 9 July, 2025, 11am-12pm CEST: Webinar – “Connect with the European Diamond OA Community: The Forum & Registry of the European Capacity Hub”The Forum & Registry of the European Diamond Capacity Hub are two service components dedicated to serving the European Diamond OA community. The Forum is a virtual space designed to foster collaboration, dialogue, and knowledge-sharing between individual members of the European Diamond OA community. The Registry aims to boost the visibility of Diamond OA service… Read more: 9 July, 2025, 11am-12pm CEST: Webinar – “Connect with the European Diamond OA Community: The Forum & Registry of the European Capacity Hub”
- 12 June 2025, 2pm (CEST): CRAFT-OA Coffee Lecture – GDPR Support – PKP applications (OJS/OMP/OPS)Our second coffee lecture in June covers some of the development work done as part of the CRAFT-OA project to support the Diamond OA publishing community: Dulip Withanage (TIB) and Ipula Ranasinghe (TIB) will discuss everything new regarding GDPR support at the Public Knowledge Project’s publishing systems (Open Journal System/Open Monograph Press/Open Preprint Server). After… Read more: 12 June 2025, 2pm (CEST): CRAFT-OA Coffee Lecture – GDPR Support – PKP applications (OJS/OMP/OPS)
- 5 June 2025, 2pm CEST: CRAFT-OA Coffee Lecture, “Self-Archiving Policy – Benefits & Implementation at TIB Open Publishing” (English)We are organizing another CRAFT-OA coffee lecture on technical publication standards! The series continues with a lecture by Xenia van Edig (TIB) on “Self-Archiving Policy – Benefits and Implementation at TIB Open Publishing”. Open Access publishers and editors alike will gain insights into the processes at TIB Open Publishing. After the lecture, Xenia van Edig,… Read more: 5 June 2025, 2pm CEST: CRAFT-OA Coffee Lecture, “Self-Archiving Policy – Benefits & Implementation at TIB Open Publishing” (English)
- 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
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.