PUBMET2020 / The 7th Conference on Scholarly Communication and Publishing in the Context of Open Science

The organizers aim to maintain lively discussion among experts in various fields involved in scholarly publishing and dissemination of knowledge. The field of scholarly communication, scholarly publishing and metrics includes all disciplines and variety of skills: researchers from different research areas, information specialists and librarians, editors, publishers, educators, students, policy makers, communication specialists and managers. This year the newly founded Croatian Association for Scholarly Communication (CROASC) has joined the organizers of previous PUBMET conferences: University of Zadar, Department of Information Sciences, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, and Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb.

Themes of the PUBMET2020 conference include the following:

• open scholarship (open access to publications and research data, open educational materials, open peer review)

• digital OA repositories (including next generation repositories), European Open Research Cloud

• personal data protection, copyright and licencing

• research assessment (bibliometrics, altmetrics, next generation metrics)

• digital scholarly publishing (interactive digital publications, multimedia content, semantics, identifiers)

• editorial practice and ethical questions (editorial policy, standards of editorial work, plagiarism detection, peer-review process, authorship and contributorship)

• scientific communication (peer-to peer, general public, communicating science to policymakers)

• ethical issues in science (conflict of interest, human and animal research protection, gender equality).

The organisers of the PUBMET2020 conference invite you to submit extended abstract (600-1200 words plus no more than 8 references). All submissions should be written in English.

Abstract acceptance notification: 30 June 2020