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 […]
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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The CRAFT-OA team is excited to invite you to two webinars. Join us for two insightful sessions focusing on integrating OpenAIRE services with the OpenAIRE Graph and its connection with EOSC and the EOSC EU Node. Date & Time: December 9th, 11:00-12:00 CET This webinar will introduce the OpenAIRE Graph, one of the world’s largest
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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
26 Nov 2024: CRAFT-OA Coffee Lectures: ORCID, DOI and ROR (in German) Read More »
Good 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.
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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
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
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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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 deliverable 2.2 “Reusable Curriculum for Upskilling Training” is now available as a Gitbook! Learn more on how to organise upskilling trainings here!
Reusable Curriculum for Upskilling Training available as Gitbook! Read More »
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