In 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

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!

The 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.

CRAFT-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.

Our colleagues from the DIAMAS project invite you to an insightful event which looks at the European Landscape of Institutional Publishing. Join them for a thought-provoking, 90-minute webinar where we will unveil the findings of our Institutional Publishing Landscape survey on Wednesday 7th February at 10:00 (CET). Our research delves deep into the intricacies that define… Read more: DIAMAS Webinar Announcement

October 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

The 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

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?

The CRAFT-OA team is delighted to announce a PKP Sprint, hosted by the CRAFT-OA project, which will take place on 08-09 October 2024, in Turin, Italy.  The PKP Sprint is a unique opportunity for the PKP community to come together and directly contribute to the advancement of PKPs’s open-source publishing software, including Open Journal Systems (OJS), Open… Read more: CRAFT-OA PKP Sprint

From 10-11 October 2024, CRAFT-OA organises the CRAFT-OA Tech Event in Turin, Italy. The gathering aims to bring together various stakeholders, including members of the Diamond Open Access (OA) community, institutional publishing service and technology providers, journal editors, and technical professionals working with publishing systems like OJS, Lodel, and Janeway.  Learn more here.