CRAFT-OA Report Tech Event and PKP Sprint in Turin

PKP Sprint and CRAFT-OA Tech Event: Advancing Open Access Publishing in Turin

Written by Lisa Müller & Maxim Kupreyev. The city of Turin, Italy, recently played host to two CRAFT-OA events dedicated to the future of scholarly publishing: a PKP Sprint (October 8–9, 2024) and the CRAFT-OA Tech Event (October 10-11, 2024). They brought together experts and innovators in the field of Open Access publishing. Here’s a […]

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26 Nov 2024: CRAFT-OA Coffee Lectures: ORCID, DOI and ROR (in German)

CRAFT-OA is organising a coffee lecture series on technical publication standards in winter. Nelli Taller from the PID Network Germany will give the first coffee lecture in German. The short lecture will discuss the use of three important persistent identifiers: ORCID, DOI and ROR. There will be an opportunity for questions after the presentation. The

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30 Oct 2024: Regional online workshop for editors and publishers of OA journals in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia

October 30, 2024, 2.00 PM  Register here. We invite all interested parties to participate in the Regional workshop for editors and publishers of Open Access journals. The workshop is organized as part of the Horizon Europe projects DIAMAS and CRAFT-OA and will take place on October 30, 2024, between 2.00 PM and 3.30 PM CET. The

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Webinar: Creating Community-Driven Pathways to Equitable Open Scholarly Publishing – Leading the way

The three EU-funded projects CRAFT-OA, DIAMAS & PALOMERA work towards an equitable future for scholarly communication, with the scholarly community at the centre. In this third instalment of the cross-project webinar series, the projects will present how they aim to help realise that vision by putting a spotlight on some of the projects’ outputs on

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15 Oct 2024: Webinar – OpenAlex – a game changer for citation databases?

15 October 2024, 2-3 PM CEST While the citation databases Web of Science and Scopus are widely used in academic libraries to support research-related bibliometric services, there is growing interest in open alternatives that have emerged in recent years. In particular, the OpenAlex service from the provider OurResearch is considered very promising in both scientific

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CRAFT-OA welcomes the Barcelona Declaration

In 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

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CRAFT-OA Training Curriculum

The CRAFT-OA Training Curriculum

Strengthening Scholar-Led Publishing in Europe Written by Lisa Müller The CRAFT-OA project is dedicated to strengthening and evolving scholar-led institutional publishing across Europe, with a particular focus on Diamond Open Access (OA) journal publishing. This ambitious three-year initiative aims to develop and implement a range of services and tools, alongside comprehensive training programs and materials

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