Jadranka Stojanovski is a retired Associate Professor who previously taught at the University of Zadar, Department of Information Sciences. She has more than 20 years of professional experience in designing open access and open science infrastructure and services organizing knowledge created by the Croatian research community. Previously, she worked as the head of the library at the Ruđer Bošković Institute. Jadranka has an interdisciplinary background, MSc in Physics and MA and PhD in Information Sciences gained at the University of Zagreb.
Jadranka’s research interests are in the field of open scholarly communication, more specifically in the peer review and research assessment, new trends in scholarly publishing, ethical issues, and research data. She is also involved in continuous education and has taught numerous lectures and workshops for researchers, journal editors, and librarians.
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