History

The 1st PUBMET2014 conference was organized by the University of Zadar as part of the 10th anniversary of the Department of Information Sciences. The next year, the conference was organized by the Department of Information Sciences, University of Zadar and Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, as a co-organizer. 

For the 3rd PUBMET2016 conference, University of Zagreb joined the Organizing committee for the first time. The organizers remained the same throughout the years, until 2020, when the newly formed Croatian Association for Scientific Communication (CROASC) joined them. The conference is supported by the Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia, Open AIRE, Sparc Europe and EASE. 

PUBMET conference encompasses two main themes: the first is directed towards scholarly communication and publishing as its most visible channel (PUB), and the second towards metrics and assessment (MET). From the very beginning the organizers were committed to ensuring continuity of the PUBMET conference, which was planned to be held annually. 

Since PUBMET2017, the two-day conference also has a pre-conference day dedicated to workshops that cover numerous topics useful to all the participants, who include but are not limited to editors, publishers, scientists, librarians and students. It is traditionally held in the beautiful city of Zadar, except for the 4th PUBMET2017, which was held in Zagreb, at the Faculty of Engineering and Computing of the University of Zagreb. 

The 7th International Conference on Scholarly Communication in the Context of Open Science PUBMET2020 was held online for the first time due to COVID-19 pandemic. The conference offered 1 webinar, 3 workshops, 4 keynote lectures, 2 panel sessions, 1 short talk session with peer reviewed content and 13 thematic sessions, including sessions from 8 different cities in 5 countries: Zagreb, Split, Novi Sad, Zadar, Ljubljana, Skopje, Sarajevo, Osijek, along with OPERAS, SPARC Europe and EASE sessions were held. With 70 presenters, 400 active participants from 50 countries and 27 hours of programme, it was the most successful PUBMET conference so far.