5 Sept 2025, 10am CET: Meet the Experts – Migrating to OJS

As 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 […]

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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

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26 Sept 2025, 10am CET: Meet the Experts – Configuration options in OJS

In 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

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Enabling Diamond OA: Insights from the 2nd CRAFT-OA Summer School

Written by Léa Foumany | Photography by Radek Gomola From June 23rd to 27th, 2025, the 2nd CRAFT-OA Summer School brought together Diamond OA advocates, journal editors, and platform managers at the University of Coimbra. The programme combined trainings and presentations on topics like OJS, XML workflows, and metadata quality. Kicking off the week, participants

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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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