Croatian Association for Scholarly Communication (CROASC / ZNAK) and EASE Croatia representatives will present two posters at the OPERAS 2026 & SCIROS Conference (18-21 May 2026, Warsaw).
The conference is jointly organised by the OPERAS Research Infrastructure and the SCIROS project, both of which have been actively exploring the above issues within the Open Science landscape. OPERAS, an infrastructure for scholarly communication in SSH, has been growing for almost a decade and is planning to become a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) in the upcoming years. SCIROS, launched in 2024, brings a fresh and ambitious perspective, building a vibrant and diverse network of researchers and research-performing organisations devoted to deepening the understanding of Open Science, fostering new approaches to its theory, and strengthening the OS practices and infrastructure ecosystem through collaboration.
By bringing together the OPERAS ecosystem and the SCIROS research network, the conference creates a unique platform for the entire Open Science community to engage in reflection, dialogue, and knowledge exchange across theory, empirical study, and infrastructure development. In this way, the conference theme, “One network, many possibilities. Strengthening the OPERAS community,” comes to life, showing how a connected yet diverse network can expand opportunities for collaboration, innovation, and sustainable growth in Open Science.
Conference Priorities and Themes:
Meanings of Open Science: Boundary objects are entities that enable “cooperation without consensus”, while building a collective consensus often requires overcoming differences. What are the understandings of Open Science that different actors operate with? What are the tensions between these understandings? Which of the tensions requires overcoming?
Disciplinary Diversity: Supporting the publication and dissemination of specific SSH genres, such as monographs and critical editions. Acknowledging the specificity of SSH data, and sharing tools and workflows to adapt FAIR principles to the SSH.
Quality & Evaluation: Implementing evaluation and quality assurance practices tailored to the SSH that encourage rather than stifle innovation in scholarly communication and that move beyond opaque metrics toward transparent peer review, in line with the CoARA initiative.
Multilingualism and Bibliodiversity: Strategies to protect national infrastructures and promote local languages as valid media for scientific communication.
Scholarly Governance: Ensuring the infrastructure is governed by scholars and for scholars, a crucial factor for creating services that are truly productive and accessible.
Stakeholder Inclusion: Integrating the needs of the entire scholarly ecosystem, including publishers, libraries, media, and non-profit organisations.
Croatian community will present a poster about three decades of Diamond Open Access initiatives in Croatia, and a poster about the establishment of Croatian Diamond Capacity Centre, initiated by the University of Zadar, National and University Library in Zagreb, University of Zagreb University Computing Centre – SRCE, University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Croatian Association for Scholarly Communication.
Registrations for the Conference are open until 10 April, without conference fees.
Date
20 May 2026
Organiser
OPERAS, SCIROS
Categories
Croatia, Authors and researchers, Journal editors, Marketers and communicators, Publishers