CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
11:00-13:00
Registration
12:00-12:45
Preconference event [in Croatian]
13:00-13:20
PUBMET 2026 Conference opening
13:20-15:00
15:00-15:30
Coffee break
15:00-17:00
SESSION 2 Diamond Open Access Publishing and Communities
[short talks]
From Fragmentation to Coordination: The European Diamond Capacity Hub and the National Capacity Centres [abstract]
→ Athina Papadopoulou, Johan Rooryck, Marion Paulhac, Milica Ševkušić, Iryna Kuchma and Karla Avanço
Diamond Ireland: from landscape evidence to a community-governed national infrastructure within Europe’s Diamond Open Access network [abstract]
→ David Kane, Niamh Brennan, Jane Buggle, Michaela Cooley, Frank Houghton, Johanna Archbold and Kieran Rankin
Advancing Editorial Quality through Journal Certification: experiences of one national platform [abstract]
→ Ljiljana Jertec Musap, Iva Vidović and Nino Katić
Milano University Press: A Long-Standing Commitment to Diamond Open Access from Its Origins [abstract]
→ Paola Galimberti, Rossella Filadoro and Andrea Collivignarelli
[discussion]
[sponsor presentation] → Wolters Kluwer
[poster session]
The brightness of Spanish diamond journals [abstract]
→ Remedios Melero and Olga Elizabeth Moreno-Fleitas
The Diamond Program of UiT The Arctic University of Norway [abstract]
→ Amalie Ask
AEGIS-OA: Advancing Diamond Open Access Publishing in Europe [abstract]
→ Athina Papadopoulou, Marion Paulhac, Milica Ševkušić, Iryna Kuchma and Karla Avanço
Researchers for Diamond Open Access: Theory vs. Practice [abstract]
→ Petra Šarić, Ljerka Ostojić and Edward Legg
Croatian Centre for Diamond Open Access: From Community Practice to National Coordination [abstract]
→ Ivana Matijević, Anja Majstorović, Drahomira Cupar, Ivana Morić Filipović, Iva Melinščak Zlodi, Irena Kranjec, Iva Grabarić Andonovski, Jadranka Stojanovski, Draženko Celjak and Ljiljana Jertec Musap
Embedding Open Access in Institutional Book Publishing Workflows: A Library-Led Diamond Model [abstract]
→ Iva Melinščak Zlodi, Irena Kranjec and Ivana Kukić
17:30-18:30
Research library tour [meeting point @ University of Zadar, Ante Kuzmanića 3]
9:00-11:00
Registration
9:30-10:30
[Workshop I]
Generative AI and Law: Copyright Challenges from Training Data to AI Outputs [abstract]
→ Maja Bogataj Jančič
[Workshop II]
Whose journal is it anyway? Workshop on journal ownership [abstract]
→ Milica Ševkušić, Sofie Wennström, and Johan Rooryck
[Workshop III]
Turning scientific journals into semantic knowledge systems using artificial intelligence
→ Domagoj Ivanuša and Mario Ivanuša
10:30-11:00
Coffee break
11:00-12:35
SESSION 3 Supporting Integrity in Scholarly Publishing
[keynote speaker] → Sonja Bjelobaba
[short talks]
When Citation Becomes Weaponized: Propaganda Triggers and the Crisis of Integrity in Scholarly Publishing [abstract]
→ Ganna Kharlamova, Andriy Stavytskyy, Mariia Naumova and Carl Taswell
Opportunities for the editorial community to leverage scholarly metadata for increased integrity and discoverability [abstract]
→ Madhura Amdekar
[discussion]
[sponsor presentation] → Elsevier
[poster session]
Thinking in Ecosystems for OA Book Publishing: Multilinguality, AI Assistance, and Collaboration [abstract]
→ Szilvia Maróthy
Sense of Community, Power, and Scholarly Outputs: Insights from the Researcher Mental Health Observatory STAIRCASE Survey [abstract]
→ Ana Slavec
When Openness Isn’t Enough: Case Study on Autism Framing in Croatian Scientific Discourse [abstract]
→ Roberta Bajčić, Ljerka Ostojić and Miguel Núñez de Prado Gordillo
AI in Scientific Publishing: Support or Subversion? [abstract]
→ Radovan Vrana
International Collaboration and Language Preservation: Case Study of an Agricultural Journal [abstract]
→ Zvonimir Prpić
12:35-13:35
Lunch break
13:35-14:55
SESSION 4 Perspectives on Openness
[short talks]
The Journal Flipping as a scientific community experience: convergence, disagreements and conflicts [abstract]
→ Juliette Le Marquer, Zoé Sinsou and Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri
Navigating Openness: Exploring Perspectives from Social Sciences and Humanities [abstract]
→ Maike Neufend and Maaike Duine
Being Seen or Used? Open Access Models and Discoverability in Translating Science into Patents [abstract]
→ Abdelghani Maddi, Chongjun Xi, Xiaoting Chen, Isabelle Dorsch and Marc-André Simard
Delisted: Verfassungsblog and the Politics of Inclusion in Open Access Infrastructures [abstract]
→ Elena Di Rosa
[discussion]
[sponsor presentation] → MDPI
[poster session]
The Role of Centre for Electronic Publishing in the Academic Community of the University of Rijeka [abstract]
→ Lea Lazzarich and Sanja Kosić
An insight into the diamond open access encyclopedic collections of the Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography [abstract]
→ Nataša Jermen, Irina Starčević Stančić and Bea Hrup
Libraries as citizen science initiators and hubs: The case of National and University Library in Zagreb [abstract]
→ Sanja Jurković
Rethinking Access: Communication Challenges in Opening Theatre Archives [abstract]
→ Zlatko Vidačković
AI tools in student research practice: A longitudinal study on open digital tools and creativity development in secondary education [abstract]
→ Zlatko Matijašević
14:55-15:25
Coffee break
15:25-17:10
SESSION 5 Building, governing and sustaining the infrastructures
[keynote speaker] → Laetitia Bracco
[short talks]
After the architecture: Who governs the federation? [abstract]
→ Elena Sokolova
OpenCitations as a community-based open scholarly infrastructure and its recent steps towards sustainability [abstract]
→ Chiara Di Giambattista and Silvio Peroni
In Between Communities – The Role of FIDs for the Service Center Diamond Open Access (SeDOA) [abstract]
→ Martin Wiegand
Shared Infrastructure as Community Governance: A PaaS-based Approach to FAIR Data Exchange in LUMEN [abstract]
→ Paweł Marciniak
[discussion]
[poster session]
Open Research Data capacity building: lessons from Gdańsk University of Technology [abstract]
→ Agnieszka Szymik
CoreTrustSeal certification of the Repository of the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb: The first certified institutional repository in Croatia [abstract]
→ Gordana Stubičan Ladešić and Dijana Sever
Building Skills for Open Science [abstract]
→ Dejana Carić, Iva Vidović and Draženko Celjak
Building a Transnational Research Community in Central and Eastern European Life Sciences: The Contribution of the University of Zagreb School of Medicine to the Alliance4Life_BRIDGE Project [abstract]
→ Tea Vukušić Rukavina, Lea Škorić, Filip Sedlić, Ana Borovečki, Srećko Gajović, Nada Čikeš, Božo Krušlin, Monika Ulamec, Željka Krsnik, Goran Šimić and Ivan Padjen
From Open Access to Open Science Ecosystems: A Bibliometric Analysis of Governance, Community, and Infrastructure Research in Scholarly Communication [abstract]
→ Iva Kovačević Melinčević
18:00-19:00
Zadar: UNESCO World Heritage Tour [meeting point @ University of Zadar, Mihovila Pavlinovića 1]
20:00-23:00
Conference dinner [Hotel & Restaurant A’mare Zadar, Ul. bana Josipa Jelačića 4A]
8:00
PUBMETRun [meeting point @ University of Zadar, Mihovila Pavlinovića 1]
9:30-10:40
SESSION 6 Building Capacity and Communities for Open Science
[short talks]
Building Open Science Capacity through European Collaboration: The Open4UA Approach to Research Reform in Ukraine [abstract]
→ Irena Vipavc Brvar and Oleksandr Berezko
Building a Moodle Course: Introduction to Managing Research Data According to the Principles of Open Science [abstract]
→ Sergeja Masten, Ema Grilc and Irena Vipavc Brvar
Training as a Strategic Lever for Open Science: A Flexible Framework for Sustainable Capacity Building [abstract]
→ Karla Avanço
You are not alone: the role of community in Open Science practices adoption [abstract]
→ Elena Giglia, Giulia Caldoni, Vittorio Iacovella, Mauro Paschetta, Valentina Pasquale, Ilaria Stura, Evdokia Tema and Luca Visentin
From competencies to communities: aligning Intellectual Property with Open Science in practice [abstract]
→ Lea Škorić and Dina Vrkić
[discussion]
[sponsor presentation] → SKS Knowledge Services
10:40-11:10
Coffee break
11:10-12:40
SESSION 7 Open Science in Diverse Contexts
[keynote speaker] → Ivan Flis
[short talks]
Academic Libraries as Open Science Communities in the European Research Area: Evidence from Scoping Review [abstract]
→ Fotis Mystakopoulos
The OSCAR CoARA Boost Project: an Open Science Community Fostering the Reform of Research Assessment [abstract]
→ Nataša Jakominić Marot and Saša Zelenika
Connecting the scholarly record through community action: ways of leveraging Crossref’s open relationship metadata [abstract]
→ Luis Montilla and Kora Korzec
Collaborative Open Science in the Sinophone World: A Scholarly Analysis of Open Books Hong Kong and the Open Journals Hub [abstract]
→ Jenny Lam
Multilingual scientific knowledge dissemination: is it a matter of language bias or language barriers? A translation scholar’s perspective [abstract]
→ Elisabetta Geromel-Lister
[discussion]
12:40-13:40
Lunch break
13:40-14:50
SESSION 8
[sponsor presentation] → Paradigm Publishing Services
[poster session]
Mapping Open Science in the Central and South-Eastern Europe [abstract]
→ Maja Bogataj Jančić
Advancing Open Science In India Through Student-Led Initiative [abstract]
→ Terrin Manjila, Merima Halilbegović, Ivan Flis and Ljerka Ostojić
Open access to master theses: Follow up of nine SEA-EU Alliance universities, 2019-2023 [abstract]
→ Ana Matijašević Renić, Danijel Gudelj, Petra Zoranović, Matko Marušić and Ana Marušić
Exploring the Unknown Heritage of Moslavina: Students as Researchers and Contributors to Open Knowledge [abstract]
→ Iva Galić
[panel discussion]
Measuring and monitoring in Open Science
14:50-15:00
PUBMET 2026 Conference closing
Pag: Island of Salt, Lamb and Cheese [meeting point TBD]
