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		<title>OpenAIRE Graph Webinars</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sona Arasteh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2024 08:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 &#38; Time: December 9th, 11:00-12:00 CET This webinar will introduce the OpenAIRE Graph, one of the world’s largest [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>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.</p>



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<li><strong>Webinar 1: The OpenAIRE Graph and its Connection with EOSC and the EOSC EU Node</strong></li>
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<p><strong><em>Date &amp; Time: December 9th, 11:00-12:00 CET</em></strong></p>



<p>This webinar will introduce the <a href="https://graph.openaire.eu/">OpenAIRE Graph</a>, one of the world’s largest scholarly knowledge graphs, and its vital role within the <a href="https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/strategy/strategy-2020-2024/our-digital-future/open-science/european-open-science-cloud-eosc_en">European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)</a>.</p>



<p>Learn more &amp; register <a href="https://www.openaire.eu/eventdetail/1354/craft-oa-webinar-the-openaire-graph-and-its-connection-with-eosc-and-the-eosc-eu-node">here</a>!</p>



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<li><strong>Webinar 2: OpenAIRE Services and their Integration with the OpenAIRE Graph</strong></li>
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<p><strong><em>Date &amp; Time: December 12th, 15:00-16:00 CET</em><br></strong>This session will delve into the suite of OpenAIRE services and their integration with the <a href="https://graph.openaire.eu/">OpenAIRE Graph</a>, designed to enhance research discovery, monitoring, and Open Science practices.</p>



<p>Learn more &amp; register <a href="https://www.openaire.eu/eventdetail/1355/craft-oa-webinar-openaire-services-and-their-integration-with-the-openaire-graph">here</a>!</p>



<p><strong>Join us and feel free to further share this invitation with your respective networks.</strong></p>



<p>If you have any questions or need further information, please do not hesitate to contact us.</p>



<p>We hope to see many of you there!</p>



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		<title>CRAFT-OA Coffee Lectures: ORCID, DOI and ROR (in German)</title>
		<link>https://www.craft-oa.eu/craft-oa-coffee-lectures-orcid-doi-and-ror-in-german/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sona Arasteh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 09:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>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.</p>



<p>The event will take place online via Webex. You can join via this link (also in your browser). The short lecture will be recorded to make it available later. However, the recording will be stopped before the Q&amp;A session.</p>



<p>26th November 2024, 3-4 PM (CET)</p>



<p>Wie nutze ich ORCID, DOI und ROR? With Nelli Taller, TIB Hannover</p>



<p>Register <a href="https://tib-eu.webex.com/weblink/register/r806a76a6a3f20d681124e381a20f939e">here</a>.</p>



<p>Please feel free to forward this invitation to all interested parties. More multilingual coffee lectures will be announced shortly.</p>



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		<title>PKP Turin 2024 Sprint notes</title>
		<link>https://www.craft-oa.eu/pkp-turin-2024-sprint-notes/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sona Arasteh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 08:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Good 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.]]></description>
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<p>Good 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 <a href="https://pkp.sfu.ca/2024/10/30/pkp-turin-multilingual-support">here</a>.</p>



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		<title>Regional online workshop for editors and publishers of OA journals in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia</title>
		<link>https://www.craft-oa.eu/regional-online-workshop-for-editors-and-publishers-of-oa-journals-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina-croatia-montenegro-north-macedonia-serbia-and-slovenia/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sona Arasteh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2024 09:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[October 30, 2024, 2.00 PM&#160; Register&#160;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 [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p><strong>October 30, 2024, 2.00 PM&nbsp;</strong></p>



<p>Register&nbsp;<a href="https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcocOqhqjorG9QBhyilAfSmMA4_QOdkrics#/registration">here</a>.</p>



<p>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.</p>



<p>The workshop is free, but registration is required.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>



<p>Open Journal Systems (OJS), free open-source software that facilitates the management and publishing of scholarly journals, plays an important role in the development of infrastructure for Open Access scholarly publishing, as evidenced by the fact that more than 40,000 journals worldwide use OJS.</p>



<p>The workshop is intended for editors and publishers of OA journals, both those who already use OJS and those who are considering using it.</p>



<p>During the workshop, several regional examples of OJS usage will be presented. After brief presentations (<strong>held in Croatian and Serbian</strong>), you will be invited to join the discussion and share your experiences. Discussion can take place in the language chosen by each participant.</p>



<p>The webinar is organised by DIAMAS and CRAFT-OA projects and the Croatian Association for Scholarly Communication – CROASC.</p>
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		<title>Webinar: Creating Community-Driven Pathways to Equitable Open Scholarly Publishing &#8211; Leading the way</title>
		<link>https://www.craft-oa.eu/webinar-creating-community-driven-pathways-to-equitable-open-scholarly-publishing-leading-the-way/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sona Arasteh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2024 09:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The three EU-funded projects CRAFT-OA, DIAMAS &#38; 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 [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>The three EU-funded projects CRAFT-OA, DIAMAS &amp; 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 the 6th of November 2024, from 3 to 4:30 p.m: </p>



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<li><a href="https://www.craft-oa.eu/">CRAFT-OA</a> empowers journal platforms and publishing service providers to upscale, professionalise, and reach stronger interoperability with other scientific information systems, by providing services and tools. They will present the OpenAIRE publisher dashboard, which aims to empower publishers with the tools and resources to enhance their visibility and impact within the Open Science community.</li>



<li><a href="https://diamasproject.eu/">DIAMAS</a> develops common standards, guidelines and practices to build capacity for the Diamond publishing sector. They will share recent project outputs that will become components European Diamond Capacity Hub, including assessment tools, and guidelines, to strengthen and grow Diamond publishing.</li>



<li><a href="https://operas-eu.org/projects/palomera/">PALOMERA</a> set out to provide actionable recommendations and concrete resources to support and coordinate aligned funder and institutional policies for Open Access books. They will showcase the progress to date on these project goals. </li>
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<p>Participants will have the chance to join a discussion with the three projects and be able to explore ways to further engage with their outcomes.</p>



<p>Register for this webinar to be part of this conversation and help us shape the future of Open Access as a community!</p>



<p>Register <a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpcu-qrDIjGNViqxiA4w3svMROBxs597Mq#/registration">here</a></p>



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		<title>Webinar: OpenAlex – a game changer for citation databases?</title>
		<link>https://www.craft-oa.eu/webinar-openalex-a-game-changer-for-citation-databases/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sona Arasteh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2024 10:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p> 15 October 2024, 2-3 PM CEST</p>



<p>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 research and applied bibliometrics. However, there are questions regarding the coverage and quality of the open data source in comparison to the established bibliometric databases.</p>



<p>Learn more and sign up for our webinar <a href="https://www.craft-oa.eu/webinar-openalex/" data-type="page" data-id="3003">here</a>.<br></p>
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		<title>CRAFT-OA welcomes the Barcelona Declaration</title>
		<link>https://www.craft-oa.eu/craft-oa-welcomes-barcelona-declaration/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sona Arasteh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2024 12:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;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 [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>In today&#8217;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 decisions and perpetuates inequities, e.g. by disadvantaging less privileged languages, geographical regions, and research agendas.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Together with sibling projects <a href="https://diamasproject.eu/">DIAMAS </a>and <a href="https://operas-eu.org/projects/palomera/">PALOMERA</a>, the CRAFT-OA project is dedicated to supporting the transition towards an equitable, scholarly-driven publishing system. CRAFT-OA is actively working to strengthen the Diamond OA model by improving the technological bases of its platforms, software and infrastructure. It will make Diamond OA’s activities and results more discoverable and appreciated.</p>



<p>The CRAFT-OA project thereby welcomes and supports the <a href="https://barcelona-declaration.org/">Barcelona Declaration</a> and its commitments to&nbsp;</p>



<p>(1) making openness of research information the default&nbsp;</p>



<p>(2) working with services and systems that support and enable <a href="https://barcelona-declaration.org/definitions/#open-research-information">open research information</a></p>



<p>(3) supporting the sustainability of infrastructures for open research information</p>



<p>(4) working together to realise the transition from closed to open research information.</p>



<p>By advocating for the default openness of research information and supporting the necessary infrastructures and systems, the Barcelona Declaration marks a significant step forward in the global transition towards Open Science. Together with our partners, DIAMAS and PALOMERA, CRAFT-OA is dedicated to advancing these shared goals, and we look forward to contributing to the realisation of a scholarly-driven, equitable, and transparent publishing system.</p>



<p>Download the statement of support <a href="https://www.craft-oa.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Press-Release-Barcelone-Declaration.pdf" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.craft-oa.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Press-Release-Barcelone-Declaration.pdf">here</a>.</p>
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		<title>Reusable Curriculum for Upskilling Training available as Gitbook!</title>
		<link>https://www.craft-oa.eu/reusable-curriculum-for-upskilling-training-available-as-gitbook/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sona Arasteh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2024 08:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[CRAFT-OA deliverable 2.2 &#8220;Reusable Curriculum for Upskilling Training&#8221; is now available as a Gitbook! Learn more on how to organise upskilling trainings here!]]></description>
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<p>CRAFT-OA deliverable 2.2 &#8220;Reusable Curriculum for Upskilling Training&#8221; is now available as a Gitbook! Learn more on how to organise upskilling trainings <a href="https://craft-oa.gitbook.io/d2.2-curriculum-for-upskilling-trainings">here</a>!  </p>
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		<title>The CRAFT-OA Training Curriculum</title>
		<link>https://www.craft-oa.eu/the-craft-oa-training-curriculum/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sona Arasteh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2024 09:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Strengthening Scholar-Led Publishing in Europe Written by Lisa Müller The CRAFT-OA project is dedicated to strengthening and evolving scholar-led institutional publishing across Europe, with a particular focus on Diamond Open Access (OA) journal publishing. This ambitious three-year initiative aims to develop and implement a range of services and tools, alongside comprehensive training programs and materials [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Strengthening Scholar-Led Publishing in Europe</h2>



<p>Written by Lisa Müller</p>



<p>The CRAFT-OA project is dedicated to strengthening and evolving scholar-led institutional publishing across Europe, with a particular focus on Diamond Open Access (OA) journal publishing. This ambitious three-year initiative aims to develop and implement a range of services and tools, alongside comprehensive training programs and materials to help stakeholders enhance and professionalise their content, platforms, and services.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Introducing the Reusable Curriculum for Upskilling Trainings</h3>



<p>In this blog post, we highlight the<a href="https://craft-oa.gitbook.io/d2.2-curriculum-for-upskilling-trainings"> Deliverable D2.2 Reusable Curriculum for Upskilling Trainings</a>. Initially published in April 2024 on <a href="https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10943283">Zenodo </a>and subsequently released as a Gitbook, this curriculum addresses the diverse training needs of Open Access Journal editors, reviewers, Institutional Publishing Service Providers (IPSPs), and Institutional Publishing Technology and Tool Providers (IPTPs).</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">A Modular Framework for Diverse Publishing Environments</h3>



<p>The curriculum offers a modular framework considering the varied technical standards and publishing environments employed by different stakeholders. It does not only identify essential training topics but also provides in-depth details on each topic, showcases existing training materials, and offers practical guidance on organising and structuring effective training sessions.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Tailored Training Topics</h3>



<p>Each training topic within the curriculum is assigned to a potential target audience, a user level, and the corresponding FAIR principles. This categorisation ensures that the training is relevant and accessible to all participants, catering to their specific roles and experience levels.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">The Curriculum Checklist: A Backbone for Upskilling</h3>



<p>Central to this framework is the <a href="https://craft-oa.gitbook.io/d2.2-curriculum-for-upskilling-trainings/5-upskilling-curriculum/5.6-upskilling-curriculum-modular-break-up-and-a-checklist">curriculum checklist</a>, which succinctly presents all the training topics. This list serves as a backbone for any upskilling agenda, offering a clear and structured overview of the topics and the curriculum chapter it refers to.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Thematic Blocks Addressing Technical Gaps</h3>



<p>The curriculum is organised into thematic blocks that address the technical gaps identified by the <a href="https://zenodo.org/records/10496594">Craft-OA Deliverable 3.2</a>. These blocks include:</p>



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<li>Publishing systems and their features</li>



<li>Metadata I: quality through standards&nbsp;</li>



<li>Metadata II: identifiers</li>



<li>Metadata III: licensing, OA, and self-archiving policy&nbsp;</li>



<li>Content accessibility&nbsp;</li>
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Detailed Notes and Modular Build-Up</h3>



<p>Each thematic block is further divided into three chapters:</p>



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<li><strong>Suggested Training Topics</strong>: This chapter lists relevant training topics organised into thematic sections. For example, the block “Content Accessibility” includes thematic sections such as “Content Provisioning,” “Content Harvesting and Indexing,” “Content Depositing and Export,” and “Content Long-Term Archiving.”</li>



<li><strong>Notes on Training Topics</strong>: This chapter explains the reasons for selecting specific topics, their naming conventions, and their logical assignment to sections.</li>



<li><strong>Modules Build-Up</strong>: This chapter focuses on combining topics into different training modules. It considers factors such as the knowledge level of the audience, the type of audience, the practical objectives of the training, the theoretical frameworks used (e.g., FAIR principles), and the publishing systems the audience uses.</li>
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<figure class="wp-block-image is-resized"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="1280" height="720" src="https://www.craft-oa.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image.jpeg" alt="" class="wp-image-2928" style="width:910px;height:auto" srcset="https://www.craft-oa.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image.jpeg 1280w, https://www.craft-oa.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image-300x169.jpeg 300w, https://www.craft-oa.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https://www.craft-oa.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/image-768x432.jpeg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Overview of the modular break-up of the upskilling curriculum</figcaption></figure>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Adaptability and Flexibility for Maximum Impact</h3>



<p>One of the key strengths of this curriculum is its adaptability. Designed to be flexible, the curriculum may be customised to fit the specific context and mode of training required by different institutions and professionals. This ensures that the training remains relevant and effective, regardless of the unique challenges and standards faced by different publishing environments.</p>



<p>CRAFT-OA D2.2 “Reusable Curriculum for Upskilling Trainings” is thus an essential resource for those involved in the academic publishing field. By offering a comprehensive, adaptable, and modular framework, it equips editors, reviewers, IPSPs, and IPTPs with a methodology to address the upskilling needs of the diverse technical standards of the industry.</p>
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		<link>https://www.craft-oa.eu/report-summer-school-2024/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sona Arasteh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2024 08:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Written by Martina Dvořáková The first CRAFT-OA Summer School for Journal Editors, organised by Masaryk University Press as part of the European project CRAFT-OA (Creating a Robust Accessible Federated Technology for Open Access), took place in the last week of May at the University Centre in Telč, Czech Republic. The CRAFT-OA project aims to improve [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>Written by Martina Dvořáková</p>



<p>The first CRAFT-OA Summer School for Journal Editors, organised by Masaryk University Press as part of the European project <a href="https://www.craft-oa.eu/">CRAFT-OA</a> (Creating a Robust Accessible Federated Technology for Open Access), took place in the last week of May at the University Centre in Telč, Czech Republic. The CRAFT-OA project aims to improve the situation of Diamond OA scholarly journals, community-driven, academic-led, and academic-owned publishing initiatives that do not charge fees to either authors or readers. The project aims to make the Diamond OA landscape more resilient by centralising expertise, collaboration and a joint visibility/indexing layer. Training of editors is one of the tools the project will use to improve the quality of the Diamond publishing ecosystem.</p>



<p>The whole project has a clear focus on community collaboration, with all project outputs developed and created by CRAFT-OA being created by the community for the community. CRAFT-OA aims to enhance the capacity of the Diamond OA community. The summer school was a unique opportunity to work directly with editors of scholarly journals, who will be one of the main beneficiaries of the project outputs. More than 40 participants from 7 European countries gathered in Telč; the Czech Republic was of course represented, but we also welcomed guests from Poland, Germany, Italy, France, Denmark and Latvia. Speakers from other countries, UK, USA and Ethiopia, participated online.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Opening and first day</h4>



<p>On Monday morning, the participants were welcomed by the Deputy Mayor of Telč, Jiří Pykal, the Director of the Telč University Centre, Jaroslav Makovec, the CRAFT-OA project coordinator, Margo Bargheer, the Director of the Masaryk University Press, Alena Mizerová, and the CRAFT-OA project manager for Masaryk University, Jiří Marek. The welcome was followed by a short excursion into the history of the Open Access movement, which provided the participants with a context for the discussions of the following days. Margo Bargheer then presented the current situation in the field of Open Access scholarly publishing, in particular the three large &#8220;sister&#8221; projects funded under the Horizon Europe call. The <a href="https://diamasproject.eu/">DIAMAS</a>, CRAFT-OA and <a href="https://operas-eu.org/projects/palomera/">PALOMERA</a> projects are running in parallel and their common goal is to improve all aspects of Diamond OA scholarly communication.</p>



<p>A further expansion of the context was offered by Jiří Marek, who spoke about the interrelationship between Open Access, Open Science and the <a href="https://eosc.eu/eosc-about">EOSC</a> (European Open Science Cloud). Afterwards, all participants&#8217; attention focused on the main topic of the Summer School: Open Journals System (<a href="https://pkp.sfu.ca/software/ojs/">OJS</a>) developed by the Public Knowledge Project (<a href="https://pkp.sfu.ca/">PKP</a>). Dulip Withanage, one of the main developers of the system, gave a presentation on what the developers are currently working on and what new features users can look forward to soon. Most of the Diamond OA journals use OJS to run their operations, but there are other tools available for publishing scholarly journals. The aim of the next session, <em>Publishing Platforms Lightning Round</em>, was to give a brief overview of the most popular ones: <a href="https://www.openedition.org/10905?lang=en">Lodel</a>, <a href="https://janeway.systems/">Janeway</a>, <a href="https://arphahub.com/about/platform">Arpha</a>, <a href="https://www.scielo.org/en/">Scielo</a> and <a href="https://www.pubpub.org/">PubPub</a>.</p>



<p>At the end of the first day of the Summer School, participants focused on the topic of publishing standards. The purpose of the <em>Beyond the everyday</em> session, which was always held in the afternoon, was to allow participants to discuss with others issues that have a major impact on the field of scholarly communication, but which are often not given the time to be considered in the daily hustle and bustle. In addition, most of the Diamond journals and platforms tend to be small-scale projects and are often managed by only one or a small number of people. As a result, the editors of the journals and the administrators of the platforms usually do not have anyone with whom they can directly share their daily joys and sorrows, which is why events like this summer school are so welcome. Other topics discussed during <em>Beyond the Everyday</em> sessions included journal funding and issues related to multilingualism.&nbsp;</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Days two and three: Hands-on OJS and XML publishing workshops</h4>



<p>Hands-on workshops were the core of the Summer School. The organisers created an OJS &#8220;practice&#8221; journal for each participant, where they could try out various new settings and modifications. The second day began with a workshop in which Radek Gomola, the keynote speaker of the Summer School and the administrator of Masaryk University’s platform <a href="https://journals.muni.cz/">journals.muni.cz</a>, who showed the participants how to ideally set up a journal in OJS and the entire editorial process. Lenka Dědková, an experienced editor of the journal <a href="https://cyberpsychology.eu/">Cyberpsychology</a>, followed with a presentation on peer review. In detail, she described her experience of peer review management both inside and outside of OJS, and she and the other editors in the room agreed that OJS is not ideal, but it really does help with peer review. Some of the participants were also able to take away very practical recommendations and &#8220;tweaks&#8221; for their future work.</p>



<p>The two consecutive workshops on XML publishing were the most technically demanding part of the summer school, but much appreciated by all. The XML markup language simplifies the entire publishing process and the resulting format is human- and computer-understandable, especially necessary in a situation where a journal&#8217;s success depends on its visibility in various indexing databases. As a later workshop on PDF accessibility showed, PDF-only publishing may not be a viable option for much longer, and it is XML publishing that could help.</p>



<p>The indexing of journals and articles was another important topic of the Summer School. Clara Armengou, Programme Manager of the Directory of Open Access Journals (<a href="https://doaj.org/">DOAJ</a>), focused on the indexing of journals in DOAJ. The information she gave to the Summer School participants is also valid for most other databases.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Day Four and Five: institutional publishing handbook and case studies</h4>



<p>In the CRAFT-OA project, both Summer Schools are closely linked to one of the project’s <a href="https://www.craft-oa.eu/key-exploitable-results/">key exploitable results</a>, the Institutional Publishing Technical Living Handbook. Its aim is to document and present the results of the CRAFT-OA project on an ongoing and long-term basis, focusing on the technical aspects of institutional publishing. The handbook is intended as a tool providing a helping hand on technical issues to all those who are involved in the Diamond OA publishing process. As the whole project is based on the principle of working very closely with the Diamond publishing communities, the participating editors have been invited to take part in the development of the handbook.</p>



<p>The workshop took the form of working in groups, first to invent personas (similar to those in marketing, for example) and their needs and motivations, and then to see how they could use the handbook to solve their problems in Diamond OA publishing. The presentation of the results and the final discussion shed new light on related issues. Not only the workshop organisers but also all participants gained new insights and suggestions for future work.</p>



<p>On the last day of the summer school, participants attended another technical workshop focusing on metadata, followed by the presentation of two case studies. Berhanu Asfaw Weldemikael&#8217;s presentation on the <a href="http://ejol.aau.edu.et/index.php/JES">Journal of Ethiopian Studies</a> shed a spotlight on non-European Diamond OA initiatives. Countries in Africa, and especially in South America, are pioneers in Diamond OA publishing.</p>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Conclusion &amp; Outlook</h4>



<p>The first CRAFT-OA Summer School for Journal Editors has clearly shown that editors are very interested in such events and are willing to travel to a small town in the middle of the Czech region of Vysočina to meet colleagues from other European countries and discuss issues that concern all of them alike. The discussions during the summer school proved to be extremely productive and lively, with participants wishing to continue the exchange beyond the time of the event. Whether over meals or during our trip to Brno and the famous Villa Tugendhat, they eagerly shared their experiences, both the highs and the challenges. The importance of sharing experiences was summed up by one participant&#8217;s response to the question of what was most useful to him about the summer school: “Mostly my eye-opening moments came by the sharing of experiences and knowing of different realities, that led me to realise the importance of networking and cooperation.” </p>



<p>Besides many words of thanks and appreciation to the organisers, the participants&#8217; feedback also brought suggestions that will inspire the programme of the next summer school, which will take place in Coimbra, Portugal, in June 2025. So, thank you very much and see you again soon!</p>
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