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.
Call for submissions
The organisers of the PUBMET2026 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:
- 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.
Deadline: 10 April
Read more: Call for Submission – PUBMET 2026