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
- Become a Pilot in the OpenAIRE Publisher DashboardEmpowering Institutional Publishing for Diamond Open Access In alignment with Open Science principles, OpenAIRE is launching a call for Institutional Publishing Service Providers and community-driven Diamond Open Access platforms to participate as pilot users of the new Publisher Dashboard, a dedicated service developed under the CRAFT-OA project and embedded in the OpenAIRE MONITOR platform. The… Read more: Become a Pilot in the OpenAIRE Publisher Dashboard
- 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!
Events
- 29 August 2025, 2pm CET: Meet the Experts Webinar – OJS UpgradeIn this practical webinar designed for systems administrators and journal managers responsible for managing Open Journal Systems (OJS), participants will be guided step-by-step through the process of upgrading from OJS 3.x to the latest 3.5 release. Staying up-to-date with the latest version of OJS is essential for journals to take advantage of the latest features,… Read more: 29 August 2025, 2pm CET: Meet the Experts Webinar – OJS Upgrade
- 5 Sept 2025, 10am CET: Meet the Experts – Migrating to OJSAs OJS becomes increasingly popular within the scientific community, particularly in the context of transformations to scholarly-led publishing models, journal managers and administrators frequently encounter the challenge of migrating content to OJS installations. This workshop will explore various options for importing data into OJS, provide an online demonstration, and highlight best practices and strategies for… Read more: 5 Sept 2025, 10am CET: Meet the Experts – Migrating to OJS
- 12 Sept 2025, 9am CET: OJS Containerization (Docker)As publishing services adopt more flexible and scalable infrastructures, the containerization OJS emerges as an effective solution to simplify the installation, management, and maintenance of this publishing platform. Using containers offers several advantages: it reduces dependency conflicts, facilitates portability, ensures consistent configurations, improves scalability, and simplifies tasks such as updates, backups, and recovery. This workshop… Read more: 12 Sept 2025, 9am CET: OJS Containerization (Docker)
- 26 Sept 2025, 10am CET: Meet the Experts – Configuration options in OJSIn this session, we’ll explore how to make the most of Open Journal Systems (OJS) by using its built-in configuration options and plugins. You’ll learn practical tips and tricks to enhance the appearance and usability of your journal, choose and customize themes to match your preferred style, and make the system truly your own. While… Read more: 26 Sept 2025, 10am CET: Meet the Experts – Configuration options in OJS
- 17 Oct 2025, 10am CET: Meet the Experts – ThemingThis two-part workshop will cover key considerations and best practices when creating a theme for OJS. The first part will show you how to get started creating a child theme to modify another theme’s HTML and CSS code. In the second part, I will share my tried and tested techniques to build maintainable, performant themes.… Read more: 17 Oct 2025, 10am CET: Meet the Experts – Theming
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.