CALL FOR SUBMISSION
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.
SUBMISSIONS
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 open access journals, books and datasets,
- quality standards for open access databases, services and repositories,
- roles of service providers, publishers and repositories in supporting open research and research quality,
- defining, implementing and monitoring open research policies, including rights retention, secondary publishing rights, open licenses policies,
- roles of universities, other research performing organizations and libraries in supporting open research and quality education.
- 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.
PRESENTATIONS
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.
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 and poster abstract submission deadline:
1 April15 April (acceptance notification:1 May15 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
