Section outline

    • Implementing technical publishing standards remains a key challenge for many stakeholders in Diamond Open Access (OA) journal publishing. Work Package 3 (cf. Background) of the CRAFT-OA project was designed to target these challenges by identifying technical standards and requirements, analysing key challenges and developing tailored training material and training sessions. 

      This toolkit makes training material, training sessions and information about training events available specifically targeting technical publication standards. The material covers technical standards and requirements in OA publishing, ranging from metadata and publishing systems to JATS XML.

      Please contact Jorina Fenner (jorina.fenner@tib.eu) if you have any questions or feedback on this page.

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      Background

      This page provides an overview of training material and training sessions that took place or were developed as part of Task 3.3 in the CRAFT-OA project. Task 3.3 is part of Work Package 3, “Technical Standards for Professional Institutional Open Access”. The task builds on previous work in the work package: first, existing technical standards and requirements were collected according to the FAIR principles. The results are published in the "Report on Standards for Best Publishing Practices and Basic Technical Requirements in the Light of FAIR Principles" (Armengou et el. 2023). Subsequently, the work package partners identified the key challenges faced by the Diamond OA publishing community when following these technical publication standards. The study draws on a variety of data sources, such as DOAJ rejection data and the DIAMAS survey. It was published as "Report on challenges and help measures faced by OA journals and platforms" (Laakso et al. 2023).
       
      Finally, based on this gap analysis, the partners of Task 3.3 developed and provided training and education to enable the adoption and implementation of these technical standards. The presented material and sessions follow the categories used in the report: "Identifiers", "Metadata", "Content" and "Website Features", with the addition of the category "Overarching". Furthermore, "FAIR Self-Assessment Toolkit" and "Training Sessions and Community Consultations" are presented alongside a section with "Further Reading and Platforms".
       
      To help you select the most suitable training material, each entry in the Toolkit is described in terms of content, the technical standard addressed, the creators, the year it was created and the mode of training. 

      The Toolkit was first published in June 2025 and will be updated until the end of the CRAFT-OA project at the end of 2025.
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