The 13th PUBMET2026 Conference on Scholarly Communication in the Context of Open Science will be held this year at the University of Zadar from 9 to 11 September 2026.

The main Conference topic is Communities in Open Scholarly Communication: Governance, Responsibility, and Shared Infrastructures. 

Open scholarly communication is shaped not only by policies, standards, and infrastructures, but also by the communities that create, evaluate, share, and use research. For PUBMET2026, we propose community as a lens for reflecting on how Open Science works in practice, including questions of responsibility, ownership, governance, inclusion, and sustainability, as well as the gap between Open Science policies and everyday research practices. This framing is intended as a starting point for discussion, rather than a fixed definition.

We invite you to join us in this discussion by participating as a speaker or presenter. Share your research findings with your peers, engage in insightful discussions, and offer your perspective on communities in open access scholarly communication.

TOPICS 

• Community engagement, openness and collaboration
  • communication and collaboration between academic, professional, and wider public communities
  • how different communities engage with publications, data, and other research outputs
  • relevance, accessibility, and societal impact of open research
  • citizen science
• Presentation of existing communities
  • successful examples of community building: Diamond OA publishing, repositories, research data management and other open science areas
  • capacity development activities
• Community ownership and governance
  • examples of community ownership in open scholarly publishing
  • community engagement in journal and book publishing, maintaining repositories, and open infrastructures
  • governance models in publishing 
  • roles and responsibilities in editorial management
  • roles of institutions, libraries, researchers, and service providers in open scholarly publishing
• Shared responsibilities, ethics, and evaluation
  • research integrity and ethical practices within communities
  • responsible research assessment as a collective process
  • decision-making process, peer review cultures and tools, and community norms
  • research results (research data, software and any other type of data) underlying peer-reviewed publications and their curation
  • participatory approaches to policy-making
  • communities participating in establishing criteria and incentives
  • collaborative initiatives and open infrastructures for open science monitoring 
• Sharing, reuse, and rights in open scholarly communication
  • practices of sharing and reuse within and across communities
  • FAIR and CARE data and infrastructures supporting community exchange
  • legal and policy aspects of licensing, rights retention, and secondary publication right
• Inclusion, diversity, and community boundaries
  • who is included or excluded from research communities
  • multilingualism and disciplinary differences
  • power asymmetries within and between communities
• Sustainability of community-based approaches and infrastructures in open science
  • sustainability of community-driven OA publishing and open infrastructures
  • alignment of business models with community values
  • collaborative approaches to long-term stewardship and preservation.

Other topics related to the main Conference theme are also welcome as posters.

PUBLICATION

All accepted abstracts will be published in the PUBMET2026 Book of Abstracts.

Abstracts, corresponding posters and presentations will be published on the conference website. Posters and short talk presentations must be licensed as CC BY 4.0. 

We also invite you to submit a full paper for publication in international, peer reviewed, diamond open access journals European Science Editing or Libellarium. Before submission, please check the scope and the requirements of each journal. All submissions will be peer reviewed and, if accepted, published under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0).

IMPORTANT DATES

• Short talk abstract submission deadline: 1 April (acceptance notification: 1 May 2026)
• Registration deadline for author(s) of accepted submissions: 1 July 2026
• Presentation and/or poster upload deadline: 1 September 2026

For more details, visit the PUBMET2026 website. 

Submission Guidelines

Accepted submissions should be presented at the conference venue, either as:

• a short talk of up to 10 minutes presented live or
• a poster presentation (printed poster 70 cm×100 cm) accompanied by up to 3-minute talk.

All types of presentations should be in English.

Committees

Program Committee

• Ksenija Baždarić · University of Rijeka, Faculty of Health Studies, Croatia
• Drahomira Cupar · Department of Information Sciences and Technologies, University of Zadar, Croatia
• Iva Grabarić Andonovski (co-chair)· University of Zagreb Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology / CROASC / EASE
• Ivana Hebrang Grgić · University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Croatia
• Alina Irimia · Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding, Romania
• Iryna Izarova · Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine / EASE
• Mojca Kotar · University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Iryna Kuchma · EIFL Open Access Programme, Ukraine
• Ignasi Labastida i Juan · Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
• Bojan Macan · Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia
• Mario Malički · Stanford University, USA
• Ana Marušić · University of Split School of Medicine, Croatia
• Iva Melinščak Zlodi (Chair) · University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Croatia
• Pierre Mounier · OPERAS, France
• Michael Ochsner · FORS – Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences, Switzerland
• Nikolina Peša Pavlović · Department of Information Sciences and Technologies, University of Zadar, Croatia
• Janne Pölönen · Federation of Finnish Learned Societies, Finland
• Johan Rooryck · OPERAS, France
• Jeroen Sondervan · The Dutch Research Council NWO – Open Science NL, Netherlands
• Jadranka Stojanovski · University of Zadar, Croatia
• Milica Ševkušić · Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Serbia
• Lea Škorić · University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Croatia
• Zehra Taşkın · Hacettepe University, Turkey
• Irena Vipavc Brvar · Social Science Data Archives, Slovenia
• Sofie Wennström · Stockholm University Library, Sweden

Organizing committee

• Evgenia Arh · University of Rijeka, Faculty of Medicine
• Drahomira Cupar · Department of Information Sciences and Technologies, University of Zadar
• Lovorka Čaja · Dubrava University Hospital, Zagreb
• Karlo Hrenović · Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb
• Ivana Končić · Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb
• Iva Melinščak Zlodi · University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Iva Grabarić Andonovski · University of Zagreb Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology
• Nikolina Peša Pavlović (Chair) · Department of Information Sciences and Technologies, University of Zadar
• Lea Škorić · University of Zagreb School of Medicine
• Jelena Viličić · University of Zagreb Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology
• Martina Žugaj · Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb

Venue

The Conference will be hosted this year at the University of Zadar, New Campus from 9 to 11 September 2026.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to pubmet@unizd.hr