Publishing is a composite activity that includes several components. Therefore, the adoption of best practices in academic publishing should address all aspects: service provision to authors, publishers agreements, peer-reviewing, editing, usage of open access licenses, dissemination, metrics and digital preservation. On each of these topics, best practices charts and lists have been elaborated by different academic and professional networks and already exist, gaining enough consensus in the community to be adopted by OPERAS consortium without the need for reinvention from the start. The Best Practices Special Interest Group works on identifying the most accepted best practices for each case and plans concrete and specific actions for their implementation by OPERAS partners. It also works on the management of the transition to Open Access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jadranka Stojanovski (jadranka.stojanovski@irb.hr ) \u2013 University of Zadar, Croatia<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Iva Melin\u0161\u010dak Zlodi (imelinsc@ffzg.hr) \u2013 University of Zagreb, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Croatia<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jadranka Stojanovski \u2013 University of Zadar, Croatia, Coordinator of the Best Practices Special interest Group<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Iva Melin\u0161\u010dak Zlodi (imelinsc@ffzg.hr) \u2013 University of Zagreb, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Coordinator of the Best Practices Special interest Group<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Iva Melin\u0161\u010dak Zlodi is a scholarly communication librarian at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences where she leads the development of the institutional OA book platform FF Open Press. She has experience with initiating and developing the Croatian national journals platform Hr\u010dak and repository network Dabar, and is currently preoccupied with launching the Croatian initiative for open scholarly books. She is a member of the Board of Directors of SPARC Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Aricia Bassinet – Universit\u00e9 de Lorraine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Aricia Bassinet is responsible for the journal publishing support service at the Documentation Department of the Universit\u00e9 de Lorraine. She assists researchers with the scientific publication of diamond journals and the opening up of research data. She is involved in the French network of publishing platforms Rep\u00e8res and worked on the national open science monitor project. She has a little experience of international cooperation through her work on the communication for the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS). ORCID : 0000-0003-1723-7517<\/p>\n\n\n\n C\u00e1tia Carvalho – Nova School of Sciences<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n C\u00e1tia Carvalho has a master’s degree in Information Sciences and Digital Libraries, from ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon. She is currently the Head Librarian of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of NOVA University Lisbon (NOVA FCSH). For the past few years, she significantly contributed to the establishment of the Current Research Information System at the University, she is an active member of the Open Science Working Group of NOVA FCSH and she is a member of the Coordinating Committee of ROSSIO Infrastructure, the Portuguese NODE of DARIAH \u2013 Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Clara Armengou – DOAJ<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Franjo Pehar – University of Zadar<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Franjo Pehar is assistant professor at the University of Zadar\u2019s Department of Information Sciences and head of the Laboratory for Interactive Systems and User Experience (UNIZD UX Lab). His research interests include history and theory of information science, scholarly communication, bibliometrics, information retrieval, human-computer interaction, usability, and user experience.is assistant professor at the University of Zadar\u2019s Department of Information Sciences and head of the Laboratory for Interactive Systems and User Experience (UNIZD UX Lab). His research interests include history and theory of information science, scholarly communication, bibliometrics, information retrieval, human-computer interaction, usability, and user experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Irena Vipavc Brvar – University of Ljubljana, Slovenia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Irena Vipavc Brvar is the Head of the Department at the SlovenianSocial Science Data Archives<\/a> at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. She holds a MSc from Statistics, obtained at the University of Ljubljana. She has been involved in data archiving processes for more than 20 years, being a trainer and active promotor of Open Science. In this respect, she actively works with students and researchers, teaching them about research data management and FAIRification of data. She is actively involved in the preparation of training materials for end-users on a national and international level, as well as for research support staff (eg. research officers, librarians, data stewards). She is a co-author of the CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide. She is leading the Training Working Group of the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) and is involved in several H2020 funded projects, among them SSHOC<\/a> and TRIPLE<\/a>. She is one of the co-chairs of the RDA Node SI<\/a>. Among her research interests are also research ethics and privacy protection issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Iryna Kuchma – EIFL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Iryna Kuchma has been managing the EIFL Open Access Programme\u00a0(EIFL-OA) since 2008. Working in collaboration with libraries and\u00a0library consortia in more than 50 countries in Africa, Asia and\u00a0Europe, she advocates for open access to research results, facilitates\u00a0the development and implementation of open science policies and\u00a0infrastructures, and provides support and training. Iryna sits on the\u00a0boards of Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), the Global\u00a0Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) and the\u00a0Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Iva Grabari\u0107 Andonovski – Croatian Association for Scholarly Communication ZNAK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Iva Grabari\u0107 Andonovski is the editor of Food Technology and Biotechnology, a diamond open access journal published by the University of Zagreb Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology. She holds a Master’s degree in horticulture and landscape design, and a Specialist’s degree in food management, and has over 20 years of experience in scholarly communication. Iva was recently elected as the Vice-President of the international association of science editors EASE. In addition, she serves as the Chair of the EASE Croatian Regional Chapter and Co-Chair of the EASE Environment and Sustainability Committee. She is active in the Croatian scientific community as the Secretary of the Croatian Association for Scholarly Communication (CROASC), member of the HR\u010cAK (Portal of Croatian Scientific and Professional Journals) Advisory Board, and an Organizing Committee member of the PUBMET Conference on Scholarly Communication in the Context of Open Science. Her current focus is on sustainability in publishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ivana Mori\u0107 Filipovi\u0107 – University of Zadar<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jesper Boserup Thestrup – Royal Danish Library<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jesper Boserup Thestrup started to work with Open Access in 2008 at the Royal Danish Library, as a part of the team operating a local Open Journal System (OJS) server, with a focus on Aarhus University. In 2017, the server merged into the national OJS Open Access platform, tidsskrift.dk<\/a>. In 2015, he was part of the team, which established and Open Monograph Press (OMP) server focused on publications written by researchers from Aarhus University. This has given Jesper Boserup Thestrup insight in the problems OA publication of e-books and journals gives editors and authors and how to solve many of these problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Johan Rooryck – LingOA – Linguistics in Open Access<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Lena-Cecilie Linge – ERIH +<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Lena-Cecilie Linge is a senior adviser in the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills, where she manages the Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Ljiljana Jertec Musap – University of Zagreb – University Computing Centre, SRCE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Marta Ivanovi\u0107 – University of Zadar<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Milica Sevku\u0161i\u0107 – EIFL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Milica \u0160evku\u0161i\u0107 is an Open Access Programme Project Coordinator at EIFL and a librarian at the Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Belgrade, Serbia). She has been serving as the EIFL-Open Access Programme Country Coordinator in Serbia since 2014. As a member of the repository development team at the University of Belgrade Computer Centre she has been involved in the development of a network of institutional repositories in Serbia. She is also a founding member of the Open Science Community Serbia. Her professional interests focus on Open Science, library services aimed at supporting research activities, training in academic services and tools, support to Open Access journals, information literacy and research ethics. ORCID: https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2888-6611<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Niels-Oliver Walkowski – C\u00b2DH – Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Niels-Oliver Walkowski is a research scientist for digital literacy and research at the University of Luxembourg. He is head of Melusina Press, a Diamond Open Access publisher for titles from the humanities, social sciences and education. His research includes topics like the re-design of publication formats in e-Science environments, cinemetrics and digital research infrastructure among others. You can find him on Mastodon @melusinapress@fedihum.org \/ @cutuchiqueno@mastodon.social.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pierre Mounier – OPERAS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Pierre supports cooperation between OPERAS members and contributes to the strategic roadmap of the infrastructure. He is trained in classical studies and social anthropology. Pierre is affiliated to the \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS); he is deputy director of OpenEdition, the French national infrastructure dedicated to open scholarly communication in the SSH, and co-director of the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). He regularly publishes on digital humanities and open science topics, and more largely on the social and political impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vincenzo Zeno Zencovich – Roma Tre University<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Best Practices Special Interest Group Publishing is a composite activity that includes several components. 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