What are OJS Diamond Plugins?
One of CRAFT-OA’s goals is to make the Open Access landscape more resilient. The plugins developed within CRAFT-OA address interoperability between different publishing frameworks to better aggregate metadata, align publishing with the EOSC Interoperability Framework on Research Product Publishing, and gather feedback from the EOSC catalogue—all to make Diamond Open Access journals more visible and their editors’ daily work more effective.
Five OJS plugins are to be 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 Signposting, COAR Notify & SWORD v3.0 to OJS
3. OJS plugin for the integration of the OpenAIRE Broker: connecting OJS with OpenAIRE’s scholarly graph, enriching OJS records with missing DOIs
4. OJS Discoverability Companion: The DISCO plugin visually indicates which requirements overlap across major indexing databases and aggregators, helping editors streamline their compliance efforts
5. 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)
The documentation and a full description will be produced for all five plugins to ensure that the results are transferable to other systems and can be used by those developing other systems. CRAFT-OA technical outputs are available to the public through the OPERAS GitHub repository: https://github.com/operas-eu
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.