Events

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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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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