Thinking of starting a Diamond #OpenAccess journal? 🤔 Or flipping an existing journal? Check out the #DiamondOA Starter Toolkit (DO.ASK) - it answers FAQs about what it takes to create and maintain institutional publishing services.
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🌟 ONLINE Webinar 9.2.🌟
OJS in Action: Latest Features & Live Demo! Discover how OJS 3.5–3.6 features make publishing easier, inclusive, and future-ready—register now : https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/craft-oa-developments-in-ojs-metadata-quality-and-multilingual-publishing-tickets-1977084302370
CRAFT-OA ends on 31 Dec 2025. Do you follow us to stay informed about the #DiamondOpenAccess movement? If so, please follow the social media channels for European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) on BlueSky and LinkedIn. #CRAFT-OA helped build the EDCH, which is here to stay & to unite the European #DiamondOA community.
OJS 3.5 and 3.6 (upcoming) feature better metadata and multilingual support. 💪 Read our new blog post to learn more about these OJS upgrades developed within the #CRAFT-OA project. https://www.craft-oa.eu/building-better-metadata-craft-oa-contributions-arriving-in-ojs-3-6/
#CRAFT-OA developed the FAIR Publishing Toolkit to help #DiamondOA publishers self-assess their data collections against the FAIR principles. Ensuring better💡discoverability of the content.
Check it out: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15783917
Diamond #OpenAccess academic publishers want to ensure their journals meet established technical standards & requirements - to be professional and in line with #FAIR principles. CRAFT-OA training materials can help.
Learn more: https://www.craft-oa.eu/trainings-workshops/
#DiamondOA #DiamondOpenAccess #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing
📢 Last Day of the CRAFT-OA final conference!
It’s been an inspiring journey so far. Don’t miss today’s sessions — join us live! #CRAFTOA_2025
🎥 Live stream here: https://www.craft-oa.eu/craft-oa-conference-program/
photos by Martin Liebetruth. #CRAFTOA_25
Technical issues🫤? Are you using or considering using OJS (Open Journals Systems) for your #OpenAccess journal? On Mar 5th, we're covering the basics of journal hosting technical standards. 😌 Sign up here: https://www.craft-oa.eu/coffee-lectures-1/
📸 Explore the highlights from the #CRAFT-OA_25 conference — photos, recordings, and presentation slides are now available!
A rich collection of #DiamondOA resources showcasing the strength of community-led, no-fee #AcademicPublishing initiatives. https://www.craft-oa.eu/craft-oa-final-conference/
Unlock the power of containerization in our next workshop workshop, where you’ll learn the theory, tools, and best practices for managing your services with #Docker and #DockerCompose. Register here: https://www.craft-oa.eu/meet-the-experts/
❇️CRAFT-OA: KER #1 — Diamond Discovery Hub❇️
👉CRAFT-OA’s Key Exploitable Results (KER) are the main results of the project. They enhance Diamond OA publishing and facilitate its sustainability and collaboration among all actors in theOA community. Discover all KERs 🔗 https://www.craft-oa.eu/key-exploitable-results/
We just sent out the last #CRAFT-OA newsletter. We're saying goodbye 👋soon, but we know the #DiamondOA European community will stay strong through the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH)! 🫶
Find our newsletter archives here: https://www.craft-oa.eu/news-events/
Do you work at an academic publishing house? This self-paced scholarly publishing training is for you, from #CRAFT-OA. It outlines the potential to automate certain stages of editorial work, e.g.,DOI registration & the use of Google Sheets as a publishing dashboard. https://iblpan.gitbook.io/craft-oa_training_materials_eng
Who owns our knowledge? And how is CRAFT-OA helping communities reassert control over their knowledge production? Hint: It has to do with developing Open-Source software.
@pkp.sfu.ca 's recent blog post is a great read: https://pkp.sfu.ca/2025/10/16/open-access-week-2025/
#AcademicJournal metadata... an important topic when you're trying to collect all the #DiamondOA journals in Europe (ddh.diamas.org) because only certain journals qualify. Challenges around metadata standardization, exchange and interoperability led to the creation of JMEF. This paper explains: https://zenodo.org/records/17406780
Discover the Diamond Discovery Hub - #DDH 💎
The DDH brings Europe’s Diamond OA journals together — verified, trusted, visible — . The DDH is part of the European Diamond Capacity Hub . Watch the video to learn how the DDH works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty84Goux148
Visit the #DDH: ddh.diamas.org/en
#OpenAccess #DiamondOA
As part of the “Open Science in History. From Enlightenment to AI” conference (Bern, Nov 21), the CRAFT-OA project and conference team are building a community-curated timeline of Open Science — and you’re invited to take part! Find all details here: https://www.infoclio.ch/en/call-contributions-community-curated-timeline-open-science
👉 Add your contribution to the Open Science Timeline by Nov 5!