About pubmet

We are thrilled to welcome you to PUBMET2026 — the 13th Conference on Scholarly Communication in the Context of Open Science!

📅 9–11 September 2026
📍 Zadar, Croatia | University of Zadar, New Campus

Over the years, PUBMET has grown into a dynamic international forum bringing together researchers, librarians, publishers, policymakers, infrastructure providers, and many others engaged in scholarly communication.

PUBMET2026 continues this tradition by creating a space for thoughtful exchange on the future of scholarly communication — especially as it evolves within the framework of Open Science.

Whether you are presenting your work or joining the discussion, PUBMET2026 invites you to contribute to an open and collaborative exchange on how scholarly communication is shaped — in policy, in infrastructure, and in everyday research practice.

We look forward to welcoming you to Zadar in September 2026!

Communities in Open Scholarly Communication

Governance, Responsibility, and Shared Infrastructures

Open scholarly communication is shaped not only by policies, standards, and infrastructures — but by the communities that create, evaluate, share, and use research every day.

For PUBMET2026, we place community at the heart of the conversation. We propose it as a lens for reflecting on how Open Science works in practice: how responsibility is shared, how ownership is understood, how governance is structured, and how inclusion and sustainability are achieved.

We also want to explore something many of us experience firsthand — the gap that can emerge between Open Science policies and everyday research practices.

This theme is not a fixed definition. It is an open invitation. A starting point for discussion, reflection, and exchange.

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