Events

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: closed.

This coffee lecture will cover some of the development work done as part of the CRAFT-OA project to support the Diamond OA publishing community: Dulip Withanage (TIB) and Ipula Ranasinghe (TIB) will discuss everything new regarding GDPR support at the Public Knowledge Project’s publishing systems (Open Journal System/Open Monograph Press/Open Preprint Server). After the lecture, the speakers will also be available to answer your questions on data protection and PKP applications.

Date: June 12, 2025

Time: 14:00

Place: Online

Registration: here

On 5 June 2025, the European University Association (EUA) will host a webinar to launch their new briefing: "Reclaiming Academic Ownership of the Scholarly Communication System: Challenges and Opportunities for Universities".  

This event will present key insights from the briefing, addressing the current challenges in academic publishing and exploring how universities can take a leading role in shaping a more just and transparent scholarly communication system, in line with the EUA Open Science Agenda 2025. 

More information here. 

Date: 5 June 2025 

Time: 15:00-16:00 CEST 

Location: online 

Register now: here 

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: here.

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

Join GraspOS, CRAFT-OA, and DIAMAS for a webinar exploring how non-profit, community-led publishing is influencing research evaluation reform. Learn how Diamond OA journals are gaining visibility, supported by open infrastructures and aligned with initiatives like CoARA and the Barcelona Declaration.

The webinar will discuss tools, standards, and practices that enhance trust, quality and credibility in Diamond OA - making it a vital part of a more equitable scholarly landscape.

Date: Thursday, 22 May 2025
Time: 10:00 CEST
Location: Online
Register now: 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

The Dutch Diamond Open Access Expertise Center is participating in the “DIAMAS Conversation Series” to share our plans on how we aim to use the Diamond Open Access Standard (DOAS)  to help guide Dutch Diamond publishers and service providers. We will present how DOAS can help Diamond publishers in providing high quality services to best serve authors and the research community. Diamond OA publishers and service providers are often small players performing activities in isolation and with limited infrastructure – the DOAS can serve as a reference standard in developing a successful publishing enterprise. 

Date: 24 April 2025
Time: 12:00 CEST
Registration: here
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