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Participants in the NSK and PMF BioBlitz event photograph fauna in PMF's Botanical garden.

NSK and Zagreb’s Faculty of Science’s Botanical garden jointly organise BioBlitz event

2026 Earth Day

On Earth Day 2026, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) and the Botanical garden of the University of Zagreb’s Faculty of Science (PMF) organised a special citizen science programme – a BioBlitz event held as part of the 2026 Croatian Science Festival. The event, which the staff of the NSK User Services Department organised in cooperation with the head of the Garden Dr Vanja Stamenković, was prepared for the pupils of the Tituš Brezovački secondary school in Zagreb led by their biology teacher Branka Horvat.

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The symbol for open access and the logotypes of NSK and four other Croatian institutions to set up the Croatian Diamond Open Access Centre.

NSK among major Croatian research institutions to set up the Croatian Diamond Open Access Centre

2025 –

In December 2025, a cooperation agreement enabling the setting up of the Croatian Diamond Open Access Centre was signed, with the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) as one of the signatories. Initiated by OPERAS-HR, the Croatian branch of OPERAS, a research infrastructure supporting open scholarly communication in social sciences and humanities in the European Research Area (ERA), the agreement’s signing is part of the efforts coordinated by the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) to expand and strengthen the Diamond OA community in Europe. Apart from NSK,

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NSK takes part in the development of the Croatian Open Science Plan

19 May 2025

On 19 May 2025, Croatia got the key strategic document for further advancement of open science and nationwide implementation of the principles of open science – the Croatian Open Science Plan. Officially presented on 20 May 2025 at the Zagreb Horizon Europe Annual Conference, themed Open Science, the Plan defines guidelines, objectives and recommendations for the implementation of the principles of open science in Croatia’s research sector and identifies the activities and expectations in relation to individual researchers, research institutions and decisionmakers.

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Facilitating open science: NSK becomes part of OPERAS infrastructure

2025

As a result of its efforts to bring its work into line with the principles of open science, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) has joined OPERAS, a research infrastructure supporting open scholarly communication in social sciences and humanities in the European Research Area (ERA). Aimed at fostering open science in social sciences and humanities, OPERAS provides an efficient, sustainable and inclusive system helping researchers to overcome the current fragmented state of scholarly communication in the European research landscape and enabling their easier access, dissemination and validation of research results in Europe and beyond. Other Croatian research and academic institutions included in ...

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Croatian researchers enabled to publish open access nearly 130 papers in Wiley and IEEE journals

2025

Acting as the representative of the Croatian academic library consortium, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) has concluded two transformative contracts with Wiley and IEEE, the high-profile international academic publishers. The contracts enable Croatian researchers and the members of the Croatian academic community to publish open access and free of charge by the end of 2025 89 papers in Wiley journals and 40 papers in IEEE journals. This comes as a result of NSK’s and the consortium’s continued efforts in the promotion of open access as one of the fundamental principles of open science policies and initiatives as well as the significance of both providing access for ...

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The participants in the 2024 regional meeting of e-resources purchasing consortia in central and eastern Europe.

NSK hosts 2024 regional meeting of e-resources purchasing consortia

28 May 2024

On 28 May 2024, the National and University Library in Zagreb (NSK) hosted the 2024 regional meeting of seven e-resources library purchasing consortia from central and eastern Europe. After all previous such regional meetings were held at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, NSK hosted the 2024 meeting, which apart from the representatives of the Hungarian and Croatian consortia brought together the representatives of another five library consortia – Austrian, Czech, Romanian, Slovak and Slovenian. Library consortia up against new challenges Traditionally organised by the Hungarian Academy’s Electronic Information Service National Programme, these regional meetings thematise challenges which e-resources library purchasing consortia are facing as ...

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