Events

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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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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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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