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 […]

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Behind the Scenes: Verifying journals in DOAJ for the Diamond Discovery Hub (DDH)

The Diamond Discovery Hub (DDH) aims to be a comprehensive registry of institutionally published and scholar-led Open Access (OA) journals, without author fees, in Europe. It is designed to improve the visibility and discoverability of Diamond OA journals. The goal of cataloguing every Diamond OA journal in Europe is ambitious, especially when starting from scratch.

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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

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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,

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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.

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28 May 2025, 9am UTC: EIFL Webinar on OJS Best Practices and Use Cases

EIFL (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

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The European Diamond Capacity Hub: A Sparkling Future for Diamond Open Access Publishing

Diamond Open Access on the Path Towards Sustainability The European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) celebrated its official launch in Madrid on January 15, 2025. The hub will provide practical and sound support in several languages for all European stakeholders involved in Diamond Open Access publishing – institutional publishing services, infrastructure, and technology providers. This blog

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Calling OJS users: help integrate Open Access journals into EOSC

Pilot 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

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1 April 2025, 1pm (CEST): Metadata Introduction & Metadata Healthcheck Webinar with Crossref

Would 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

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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

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