PUBMET 2026

PUBMET 2026, the 13th Conference on Scholarly Communication in the Context of Open Science, opens today in Zadar, Croatia (9 to 11 September). KR21 national coordinators Iva Melinščak Zlodi (Croatia) and Maja Bogataj Jančič (Slovenia & Western Balkans) are both on the PUBMET conference programme.

🔗 Conference live streams: https://www.youtube.com/@pubmet/streams

WEDNESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER (15:30-17:00) | Session 2: Diamond Open Access Publishing & Communities

Iva takes part in the poster session with two joint contributions on library-led diamond open access in Croatia, from national coordination to institutional book publishing:

• Croatian Centre for Diamond Open Access: From Community Practice to National Coordination
• Embedding Open Access in Institutional Book Publishing Workflows: A Library-Led Diamond Model 

THURSDAY 10 SEPTEMBER (9:30-10:30) | Workshop I, Room 125

Maja leads a workshop on “Generative AI and Law: Copyright Challenges from Training Data to AI Outputs”, covering the copyright rules on training data, authorship and protection of AI-generated content, and the forthcoming European debate on copyright and GenAI.

FRIDAY 11 SEPTEMBER (13:40-14:50) | Session 8: From Open Science Practices to Sustainable Change

Maja presents a poster on “Mapping Open Science in the Central and South-Eastern Europe”, a questionnaire designed to identify differences and gaps in open science practice across Central and South-Eastern Europe, and the opportunities to close them. A project supported by KR21 and implemented by the Open Data and Intellectual Property Institute (ODIPI) together with members of the KR21 Regional Alliance for Central and South-Eastern Europe.