European Commission provides funding to improve Open Access publishing landscape

"From January 2023, the University of Coimbra will be involved in another Open Science project: the CRAFT-OA project ("Creating a Robust Accessible Federated Technology for Open Access") involves 23 partners in 14 European countries and will last for 36 months. The project is funded under the Horizon Europe framework programme, aiming to evolve and strengthen the institutional publishing landscape of Diamond Open Access (Diamond OA): no fees for authors or readers. By offering tangible services and tools for the entire journal publishing lifecycle, CRAFT-OA will empower local and regional platforms and service providers to extend, professionalise and achieve greater interoperability with other scientific information systems for content and platforms. These developments will help researchers and publishers involved in publishing. The project focuses on four action strands to improve the Diamond OA model: (1) Providing technical improvements for journal platforms and journal software. (2) Building communities of practice to promote overall infrastructure improvement (3) Increase the visibility, discoverability and recognition of Diamond OA publishing (4) Integrate Diamond OA publishing with the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and other large-scale data aggregators...."