In this practical webinar designed for systems administrators and journal managers responsible for managing Open Journal Systems (OJS), participants will be guided step-by-step through the process of upgrading from OJS 3.x to the latest 3.5 release. Staying up-to-date with the latest version of OJS is essential for journals to take advantage of the latest features,… Read more: 29 August 2025, 2pm CET: Meet the Experts Webinar – OJS Upgrade

As OJS becomes increasingly popular within the scientific community, particularly in the context of transformations to scholarly-led publishing models, journal managers and administrators frequently encounter the challenge of migrating content to OJS installations. This workshop will explore various options for importing data into OJS, provide an online demonstration, and highlight best practices and strategies for… Read more: 5 Sept 2025, 10am CET: Meet the Experts – Migrating to OJS

As publishing services adopt more flexible and scalable infrastructures, the containerization OJS emerges as an effective solution to simplify the installation, management, and maintenance of this publishing platform. Using containers offers several advantages: it reduces dependency conflicts, facilitates portability, ensures consistent configurations, improves scalability, and simplifies tasks such as updates, backups, and recovery. This workshop… Read more: 12 Sept 2025, 9am CET: OJS Containerization (Docker)

In this session, we’ll explore how to make the most of Open Journal Systems (OJS) by using its built-in configuration options and plugins. You’ll learn practical tips and tricks to enhance the appearance and usability of your journal, choose and customize themes to match your preferred style, and make the system truly your own. While… Read more: 26 Sept 2025, 10am CET: Meet the Experts – Configuration options in OJS

This two-part workshop will cover key considerations and best practices when creating a theme for OJS. The first part will show you how to get started creating a child theme to modify another theme’s HTML and CSS code. In the second part, I will share my tried and tested techniques to build maintainable, performant themes.… Read more: 17 Oct 2025, 10am CET: Meet the Experts – Theming

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… Read more: 9 July, 2025, 11am-12pm CEST: Webinar – “Connect with the European Diamond OA Community: The Forum & Registry of the European Capacity Hub”

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… Read more: 12 June 2025, 2pm (CEST): CRAFT-OA Coffee Lecture – GDPR Support – PKP applications (OJS/OMP/OPS)

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,… Read more: 5 June 2025, 2pm CEST: CRAFT-OA Coffee Lecture, “Self-Archiving Policy – Benefits & Implementation at TIB Open Publishing” (English)

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.

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… Read more: 28 May 2025, 9am UTC: EIFL Webinar on OJS Best Practices and Use Cases

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… Read more: 1 April 2025, 1pm (CEST): Metadata Introduction & Metadata Healthcheck Webinar with Crossref

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… Read more: 5 Mar 2025: CRAFT-OA Coffee Lecture – “Technical standards of journal hosting. An overview for beginners” (English)

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

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

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

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

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… Read more: 9 & 12 Dec 2024: OpenAIRE Graph Webinars

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

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

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

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

The CRAFT-OA team is delighted to announce a PKP Sprint, hosted by the CRAFT-OA project, which will take place on 08-09 October 2024, in Turin, Italy.  The PKP Sprint is a unique opportunity for the PKP community to come together and directly contribute to the advancement of PKPs’s open-source publishing software, including Open Journal Systems (OJS), Open… Read more: 8-9 Oct 2024: CRAFT-OA PKP Sprint

From 10-11 October 2024, CRAFT-OA organises the CRAFT-OA Tech Event in Turin, Italy. The gathering aims to bring together various stakeholders, including members of the Diamond Open Access (OA) community, institutional publishing service and technology providers, journal editors, and technical professionals working with publishing systems like OJS, Lodel, and Janeway.  Learn more here.

CRAFT-OA and DIAMAS invite you to join the conversation on Diamond Open Access criteria! 16 May 2024, 4-5:30 pm CEST What criteria make a journal a Diamond Open Access (OA) journal? This 90-minute webinar jointly hosted by CRAFT-OA and DIAMAS aims to shed light on the requirements that define Diamond OA journals by engaging with… Read more: 16 May 2024: Webinar “Shaping Diamond OA: Criteria for Journals”

Designed for editors proficient in Open Journal Systems (OJS), this program offers basic as well as advanced training to refine editorial skills and elevate the standards of Diamond Open Access publishing. Participants will delve into diverse aspects of OJS, gain insights into alternative journal management systems, and engage in meaningful discussions regarding the broader landscape… Read more: 27 May – 1 Jun 2024: CRAFT-OA 2024 Summer School for Journal Editors

Join us on the 27th of February at 3 PM CET to hear essential updates from three European Commission-funded projects – CRAFT-OA, DIAMAS, and PALOMERA – working towards an equitable future for scholarly communication, with academic communities at the centre. You will hear about the latest developments in their work and be able to join a… Read more: 27 Feb 2024: Creating Community-Driven Pathways to Equitable Open Scholarly Publishing – Where Are We Now 

CRAFT-OA is proud to announce the project will be presented at several events in September:

On June 20, 2023, CRAFT-OA will take part in a webinar in collaboration with two other HORIZON Europe-funded projects: DIAMAS and PALOMERA. June 20, 2023 | 1 p.m CEST The three projects work towards an equitable future for scholarly communication, with academic communities at the centre. The webinar will present this vision and introduce each project’s area… Read more: 20 Jun 2023: CRAFT-OA/DIAMAS/Palomera Webinar

After the digital kick-off in January 2023, the CRAFT-OA consortium came together for their first face-to-face meeting in Göttingen. From 21-23 of March 2023, the consortium held workshops, and presentations and discussed how to improve the landscape of Open Access.