PUBMET2025: The 12th Conference on Scholarly Communication in the Context of Open Science University of Zagreb Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology Zagreb, Croatia, September 11-12, 2025

The 12th PUBMET2025 Conference on Scholarly Communication in the Context of Open Science will be held this year at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology from 11 to 12 September 2025.

It will provide an opportunity to meet in the beautiful capital of Croatia, gain knowledge and exchange ideas on what constitutes quality in open access scholarly communication. What defines quality in research, and how can it be assessed? How can open science contribute to improving the quality of scholarly output? What roles do researchers, universities, libraries, publishers and service providers play in the process? How can we define quality for journals, books and datasets in open access? Is there a way to enhance the research assessment and peer review process? You will find answers to those questions and more. 

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

TOPICS

The organisers of the PUBMET2025 conference invite you to submit an abstract that describes the main idea of your work, its scholarly or practical relevance, and innovative scientific and/or societal impact on the following topics:

1. Submissions on the topic of quality in open access scholarly communication, which will be presented as short talks or posters after acceptance. Here are some possible topics:

• open practices for raising the quality of research (transparency in research reporting, pre-registrations, preprints, open data sharing and management, etc.),
• transparent, ethical and critical evaluation of research output (research quality assessment, transparent and rigorous peer review, research integrity issues, etc.), 
• best practices in editing and publishing journals, books and datasets in open access, 
• quality standards for databases, services and repositories in open access,
• roles of service providers and repositories in supporting open science and research quality,
• quality in defining, implementing and monitoring open science policies, including rights retention and open licenses policies, 
• roles of universities and libraries in supporting open science and quality education.

2. Other Open Science topics will be presented as posters after acceptance:

• open science policies and strategies, 
• development of new infrastructure, services and repositories in open access,
• new resources and tools for authors, reviewers and editors in open access,
• open science and artificial intelligence,
• sustainability and business models in open access publishing,
• equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging,
• multilingualism in scholarly communication,
• citizen science initiatives.

Please send your submissions written in English via EasyChair:  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pubmet2025. (free account required). Use the following template to prepare your abstract (400 - 1200 words). All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the programme committee and/or the review board. You are invited to upload a short biography and a photo along with your abstract, which will be published on the conference website.

PUBLICATION

Accepted abstracts will be published in the PUBMET2025 Book of Abstracts.

All accepted abstracts, corresponding posters, short talk presentations, and recordings will be published on the conference website. Posters and short talk presentations must be licensed at least 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 2025)
• Registration deadline for author(s) of accepted submissions: 1 July 2025
• Presentation and/or poster upload deadline: 1 September 2025
• Full paper submission deadline: 1 December 2025

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 · Department of Medical Informatics, University of Rijeka Faculty of Medicine, Croatia
• Nicolaie Constantinescu · KOSSON, Romania
• Drahomira Cupar (Chair) · Department of Information Sciences, University of Zadar, Croatia
• Raf Guns · University of Antwerp, Belgium
• Ivana Hebrang Grgić · Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia
• Iryna Izarova · University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria
• Iryna Kuchma · EIFL Open Access Programme, Ukraine
• Ignasi Labastida i Juan · Universitat de Barcelona, Spain / SPARC Europe
• Bojan Macan · Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia
• Mario Malički · Stanford University, USA
• Ana Marušić · School of Medicine, University of Split, Croatia
• Iva Melinščak Zlodi · Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia
• Pierre Mounier · OPERAS, France
• Michael Ochsner · FORS – Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences, Switzerland
• Miro Pušnik · Central Technological Library, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Johan Rooryck · Leiden University, Netherlands
• Jadranka Stojanovski  · Department of Information Sciences, University of Zadar, Croatia
• Milica Ševkušić · Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Serbia
• Lea Škorić (Co-Chair) · School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia
• Vladimir Trajkovski · Faculty of Philosophy, University “Ss. Cyril and Methodius”, Skopje, Macedonia

Organizing committee

• Evgenia Arh · University of Rijeka, Faculty of Medicine
• Ksenija Baždarić · University of Rijeka, Faculty of Health Studies
• Drahomira Cupar · Department of Information Sciences, 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
• Nikolina Peša Pavlović · Department of Information Sciences, University of Zadar
• Lea Škorić · University of Zagreb School of Medicine
• Jelena Viličić (Chair) · University of Zagreb Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology
• Martina Žugaj · Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb

Venue

University of Zagreb Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology from 11 to 12 September 2025.

Contact

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