Negotiations with the biggest scientific publishers are carried out at the national level for interested groups of organisations, i.e., consortia (universities, research institutes, hospitals).
The agreements for subscription journals need to be transformative, if financially feasible, they should include the Read and the Publish component.
Slovenian transformative agreements are registered in ESAC Transformative Agreement Registry.
Updated in August 2022.
The Slovenian Research Agency is co-financing publishing of approximately 140 peer-reviewed journals, published by the Slovenian academic publishers. (Electronic versions of) these journals have to be published as open access journals and deposited into the Digital Library of Slovenia. 64 of these journals are indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. The biggest Slovenian academic publisher is University of Ljubljana Press, publishing 49 peer-reviewed journals.
Many of the scientific journals by Slovenian academic publishers use Open Journal Systems for managing the publication process.
Slovenian Research Agency, the University of Ljubljana and the Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts have endorsed Action Plan for Diamond Open Access.
Updated in August 2022.
The biggest publishers of peer-reviewed open access monographs in Slovenia are Faculty of Arts within the University of Ljubljana Press (more than 70 open access monographs per year) and the Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. They are both members of OPERAS ESFRI.
Updated in August 2022.
As an EU Member State, Slovenia is part of the European Research Area (ERA) and is implementing open science according to the Conclusions of the Council of the European Union and the European Commission's recommendations.
The national open access strategy 2015-2020 (prolongued to 2021) was fully aligned with provisions on open access in Horizon 2020. From 2022 onwards, Slovenian legislative provisions on open science are fully aligned with Horizon Europe (see Open Science Policy tab). Researchers therefore comply with open science provisions in the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation and in national open science legislation in the same way.
The national open science infrastructure consists of:
The University of Maribor Library and Academic and Research Network of Slovenia (ARNES) are partners in the NI4OS-Europe project (National Initiatives for Open Science in Europe) that facilitates collaboration of national open science stakeholders and onboarding of national open science infrastructures into the EOSC.
Mr Peter Sterle from the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport acts as the National Point of Reference according to the Commission Recommendation of 25 April 2018 on access to and preservation of scientific information, and participates in the EOSC Steering Board.
Updated in August 2022.
Regarding open science in publicly funded research, national research funders have to implement national policies (like the National Strategy of Open Access to Scientific Publications and Research Data in Slovenia 2015-2020 or the Resolution on the Slovenian Scientific Research and Innovation Strategy 2030) as well as relevant legislative provisions (from the Scientific Research and Innovation Activities Act).
Slovenian Research Agency signed Plan S in September 2018 and the DORA Declaration in July 2019.