The publishing landscape for Open Access journals in Europe is highly diverse. However, often scattered among various organisations and institutions, many of these publishing services struggle to reach the necessary professionalisation and maturity levels required in state-of-the-art Open Access publishing. CRAFT-OA (Creating a Robust Accessible Federated Technology for Open Access) aims to change that. The project’s target is to make the Open Access landscape more resilient by centralising expertise, collaboration and a joint visibility/indexing layer.
Learn more about the project, and its objectives and become part of our community!
Our Goals
The project focuses on four threads of activities
to improve the technical and organisational infrastructure of Diamond OA.
News
- PKP Turin 2024 Sprint notesGood news for everyone interested in the activities and results of the PKP Turin 2024 Sprint: PKP has published the report on the Sprint. Find the report here.
- CRAFT-OA welcomes the Barcelona DeclarationIn today’s academic landscape, the heavy reliance on closed infrastructures impacts the transparency and accessibility of scientific information. Despite efforts to monitor and incentivise open science, much of this work uses closed data systems that typically have low levels of data sovereignty and carry the risk of path dependencies. This practice often leads to biased… Read more: CRAFT-OA welcomes the Barcelona Declaration
- Reusable Curriculum for Upskilling Training available as Gitbook!CRAFT-OA deliverable 2.2 “Reusable Curriculum for Upskilling Training” is now available as a Gitbook! Learn more on how to organise upskilling trainings here!
- Operational Diamond OA criteria for journals releasedThe DIAMAS and CRAFT-OA projects are happy to present their operational criteria for selecting Diamond OA journals to the community. This set of criteria has been issued to facilitate the identification of Diamond OA journals within the projects’ framework and services. Learn more here.
- Save the Date: 8-11 October 2024CRAFT-OA is happy to announce the dates for the PKP Sprint organised by CRAFT-OA and the CRAFT-OA Tech Event. Both events will take place in the same location in Turin, Italy. More information will be available soon.
Events
- OpenAIRE Graph WebinarsThe 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: OpenAIRE Graph Webinars
- 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… Read more: CRAFT-OA Coffee Lectures: ORCID, DOI and ROR (in German)
- Regional online workshop for editors and publishers of OA journals in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and SloveniaOctober 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: Regional online workshop for editors and publishers of OA journals in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia
- Webinar: Creating Community-Driven Pathways to Equitable Open Scholarly Publishing – Leading the wayThe 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
- 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… Read more: Webinar: OpenAlex – a game changer for citation databases?
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.