The 6th International Conference on Scientific Publishing in the Context of Open Science – PUBMET2019 was held in Zadar from 18th to 20th September 2019. The conference organizers are the Centre for Scientific Information of the Ruđer Bošković Institute, the Department of Information Sciences of the University of Zadar and the Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology of the University of Zagreb. The topics of the conference focused on openness and exchange of information in a scientific environment.
As part of the conference, the staff of the Department for Analytics and Statistics of the Agency for science and higher education (ASHE) gave a presentation “Development of the (National) Database of Project Activities in Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Croatia“. The presentation focused on the development of a database on project activities of institutions in science and higher education in Croatia. The database was developed by the Centre for Scientific Information of the Ruđer Bošković Institute, and, for the purpose of external evaluations conducted by the ASHE, has been expanded and upgraded in cooperation with the ASHE’s Department of Analytics and Statistics. The purpose of the development of the database is to enable the entry of data on all project activities of institutions in higher education and science in Croatia and to enable the exchange of the data into the Mozvag system, which ASHE uses to collect the data used in external evaluations. The development of the database was funded through the EU project SKAZVO.