For Diamond Open Access technology, community and visibility.
The publishing landscape for Diamond Open Access journals in Europe is highly diverse. However, scattered across various organisations and institutions, many of these publishing services struggle to reach the levels of professionalisation and maturity required for state-of-the-art Open Access publishing. CRAFT-OA (Creating a Robust Accessible Federated Technology for Open Access) aimed to change this.
CRAFT-OA made the Diamond Open Access landscape more resilient by improving the technology that supports it, creating structures and opportunities that facilitate community collaboration, and developing a service to make Diamond Open Access journals visible within the scholarly research ecosystem (the Diamond Discovery Hub).
The CRAFT-OA project (2023-2025) helped lay the foundation for the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH), where all its results are integrated. After December 2025, no further information will be added to this website. To stay connected to the Diamond Open Access European community, please join the EDCH Registry & Forum (the Registry is for organisations; the Forum is for individuals) and follow the EDCH social media channels.
Our Goals
The project focused on four threads of activities
to improve the technical and organisational infrastructure of Diamond OA.
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.