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

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. 

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 

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

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

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

The conference, “Crafting the Future of Diamond Open Access: Technical, Social, and Political Perspectives of Scholarly Publishing,” will mark the project’s final phase. It will bring together project partners and the broader Diamond OA community to exchange ideas, reflect on achievements, and explore how to shape the future of federated Diamond OA publishing practices.

We invite contributions for 20-minute Talks and 5 to 7-minute “Poster Lightning Talks” related to challenges, best practices, and projects on one or more of the following three themes: Technical Frameworks, Community Empowerment, and Policy Concepts. For details on each of these themes and submission instructions, please visit our Call for Proposals page. The deadline is on June 1, 2025.

Date: 6-8^th October 2025

Location: Göttingen, Germany

Registration: not available yet.