Events

The CRAFT-OA project will host its final event on 6-8 October 2025 in Göttingen, Germany!

The overall theme will be “How data and publishing flourish together,” and it will present the major accomplishments of CRAFT-OA and how these can be utilised by the Diamond OA community. To foster community participation in the event we will issue a Call for Submissions (coming soon) around crucial Diamond OA topics and a Call for Posters, open for journals, initiatives or networks. Furthermore, the event will include a dedicated slot on Diamond OA as part of the EOSC and hands-on sessions on technical topics. More information here.

Date: 6-8^th October 2025

Location: Göttingen, Germany

Registration: not available yet.

Are you an academic journal editor looking to enhance your skills, explore the latest development in Open Journal Systems (OJS), or connect with like-minded professionals in Diamond Open Access publishing? The 2nd CRAFT-OA Summer School for Journal Editors is the perfect opportunity for you! More information here.

Date: 23-27^th June 2025

Location: Coimbra, Portugal

Registration: not available yet.

The one-day event will review the main achievements of the DIAMAS project, cover the state of Diamond OA, and look ahead to how the European Diamond Capacity Hub will support and promote Diamond publishing. The conference will also showcase how DIAMAS outputs have been used in practice – for this we want to hear back from the community and feature your work!More information here.

Date: 03 June 2025

Time: not available yet.

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Registration: not available yet.

Are you a researcher, librarian, faculty liaison, policy advisor, research support officer, or communications professional eager to learn more about Diamond Open Access and how to identify, or support, high-quality Diamond OA journals?

If so, we invite you to this interactive co-creation event, where we will collaboratively design a national Diamond Open Access Discovery Kit. This kit will serve as a practical resource to help navigate, promote, and support Diamond OA publishing at the faculty and department levels.

Date: 28 May 2025

Location: SURF, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Time:  9:30–17:00 CET / Borrel 17:00–18:00

Program and registration: here

The call is aimed at editors, academic societies, foundations which want to transition their exiting academic journal(s) to a Diamond Open Access model. The call consists of financial support for a two year period.

Deadline: 15 May 2025
Time: before 14:00 CEST
More information: here

This webinar will explore how the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) support open-access journal indexing and metadata management. Experts will discuss the role of clear journal policies and structured metadata in successful DOAJ indexing, as well as how Open Journal Systems (OJS) helps journals meet DOAJ’s acceptance criteria. The session will also cover OJS plugins that automate metadata submission and Persistent Identifier (PID) registration. Additionally, participants will be introduced to the PKP Community Forum, a valuable resource for open-access publishers. 

This session is ideal for journal editors and publishers looking to improve the visibility and discoverability of their content.

For more details, visit the event page here.

Deadline: 23 April 2025
Time: 14:00 (Amsterdam time) 
More information: here

The Radical Open Access III conference on April 10-11, 2025, will explore how open access can move beyond transparency toward activism and social justice. 

Traditional publishing models often reinforce inequality and exclusivity, limiting access to knowledge. This event will challenge these structures by discussing equitable publishing, open infrastructures, and community-driven alternatives that promote a more just and accessible research landscape. 

More information here. 

Date: Thursday & Friday, April 10-11, 2025 
Location: Cambridge University Library (UK) & Online 
Registration: here 

Would you like to learn why good metadata is important and how to assess the quality of your metadata on CrossRef? Join this hands-on session for an introduction to metadata best practices and the Participation Reports tool. 

Crossref, as the world’s largest registry of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) and metadata for the scholarly research community plays a crucial role in making your scholarly output visible, accessible, and citable. This workshop will explain why metadata matters for research visibility and show you practical ways to improve metadata completeness and quality. 

More information here. 

Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 
Time: 1 PM CEST 
Location: Online (Webex) 
Registration: here. 

This OScoffee will focus on alternative publishing formats and the platforms that support them. Traditional journal-based publishing has been criticized for paywalls, slow dissemination, and the limited recognition of non-traditional research outputs. This session will explore preprints, modular publishing, open peer review, and scholarly blogs, highlighting their role in a more open and accessible research landscape.

More information here.

Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Time: 11:00 - 12:00 CET

Location: Online (Microsoft Teams)

Registration: No registration required

Link: Leiden affiliates - Everyone else

In this symposium, we will explore how Open Science can help to fight injustice, by centering decolonial and anticolonial Open Science initiatives. Together, we aim to raise awareness about the neglect justice in mainstream Open Science practices and explore actionable pathways to embed justice and equity as fundamental values of Open Science.

Date: Thu, 13 March 2025

Time: 09.30-16:30 CEST

Location: Hybrid

Registration: here