What are OJS Diamond Plugins?
One of CRAFT-OA’s goals is to make the Open Access landscape more resilient. Diamond Open Access journals are often sustained by dedicated editors who, on top of teaching, leading research teams, publishing, and reviewing, also take on the full responsibility of running a journal. They achieve remarkable results with very limited resources — but without additional time, funding, and professional support, the essential task of journal publishing risks being stretched too thin. To support them, CRAFT-OA develops Diamond OJS plugins: practical tools that improve interoperability, streamline metadata exchange, and connect journals with different aggregators. In short, these plugins make journals more visible and editors’ daily work more manageable.
Six (originally 5 planned) OJS plugins implemented during the project:
1. OJS connector for OpenAIRE Graph: plugin for exporting publication metadata according to the OpenAIRE guidelines
2. OJS plugin for the EOSC Interoperability Framework on Research Product Publishing: implementation of SWORD v3.0 to OJS (in progress)
3. OJS plugin for the integration of the OpenAIRE Broker: connecting OJS with OpenAIRE’s scholarly graph, enriching OJS records with missing metadata
4. OJS Discoverability Companion: The DISCO plugin visually indicates which requirements overlap across major indexing databases and aggregators, helping editors streamline their compliance efforts and thus ensuring more visibility for their journal
5. OJS plugins to enable JATS XML based interoperability between OJS and Lodel: conversion, in both directions, between Commons TEI (used on OpenEdition platforms) and JATS (used on OJS platforms)
6. OJS JMEF plugin: this plugin extends OJS journal’s metadata in compliance with an open format for sharing the journal metadata (Journal Metadata Exchange Format).
The documentation and a full description will be produced for all six plugins to ensure that the results are transferable to other systems and can be used by those developing other systems. OJS Diamond plugins are available to the public through GitHub.
What do OJS Diamond Plugins achieve?
The objective of OJS Diamond Plugins is to increase the visibility of the journals and to make it easier for the editors to do their job. Diamond Open Access journals are often perceived as being less prestigious and less professional, often simply because they are not as visible and are not indexed in as many different databases. However, the content in these journals is of the highest quality. The development of OJS plugins in this project aims to contribute to the professionalization of Diamond OA journals.
CRAFT-OA is funded by the European Union under Grant Agreement no. 101094397. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.