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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23-27 June 2025: 2nd CRAFT-OA Summer School for Journal Editors in Coimbra, Portugal

Are 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

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20 Feb 2025: Workshop – Creating JATS XML from DOCX documents on HRČAK

In this hands-on, in person workshop, journal editors learn how to overcome challenges in creating metadata, full-text content, and references in the machine-readable JATS XML format.  Hosted by SRCE (University of Zagreb University Computing Centre), the workshops are conducted in Croatian and primarily designed for, but not limited to, editors of journals published on HRČAK

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10 Feb 2025: CRAFT-OA Coffee Lecture – “OpenAire Guidelines – Integration into the OpenAIRE Graph for maximum interoperability” (English)

If you’re a journal editor, a publication platform manager, technical staff or a librarian who advises Diamond OA journals, you could be making decisions that affect adhering to the OpenAIRE guidelines. In this short lecture (in English), Leonidas Pispiringas from OpenAIRE will introduce OpenAIRE Guidelines and the integration into the OpenAIRE Graph. There will be an

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6-8 Oct 2025: CRAFT-OA Conference (Save the Date!)

Go here for the full CRAFT-OA conference page: https://www.craft-oa.eu/conference/ As its final event, the CRAFT-OA project will host a conference, “Crafting the Future of Diamond Open Access: Technical, Social, and Political Perspectives of Scholarly Publishing,“ from 6 to 8 October 2025 in Göttingen, Germany! It will present the major accomplishments of CRAFT-OA and how these can be utilised

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Community Network for Diamond OA Service Providers and Diamond OA Tools & Technology Providers

Community Network for Diamond OA Service Providers and Diamond OA Tools & Technology Providers

When the Open Access (OA) Diamond Journals Study was published in 2021, one of the study’s most crucial findings was just how diverse the landscape of Diamond OA journals happens to be (Ancion et al. 2021). While this diversity is responsible for a rich publishing culture, it oftentimes goes hand in hand with challenges to

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