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OPERAS-SI

How to join OPERAS-SI?

You can send your application to join the Slovenian node of OPERAS-SI to the e-mail address operas.si@zrc-sazu.si.

Once you have joined the Slovenian OPERAS node, you can become a member of the OPERAS assembly by following the simple procedure described at this link.


Established in December 2024, the OPERAS-SI consortium brings together ZRC SAZU, the University of Ljubljana, the Institute of Contemporary History, the University of Maribor, the University of Primorska, and the Central Technical Library.

The current minutes and descriptions of the consortium's activities are available at this link.

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OPERAS is a research infrastructure that supports open scientific communication in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in the European Research Area (ERA). Its mission is to coordinate and pool resources in Europe to establish effective communication between European researchers in the social sciences and humanities.

Services

  • EDCH and DDH: if you are interested in the principles (EDCH) and list (DDH) of diamond open access journals;
  • Hypotheses: if you want to start a (popular) science blog;
  • GoTriple (also in Slovenian): if you are looking for resources for social sciences and humanities or related researchers;
  • Metrics: if you are interested in alternative metrics for open access monographs;
  • Mondaecus: if you are looking for a tool for translating into multiple languages;
  • Pathfinder: if you are looking for a tool for publishing in the spirit of open science;
  • PRISM: if you are interested in whether and how an open access monograph was reviewed;
  • VERA (also in Slovenian): if you are looking for funders and collaborators for a citizen science project;

Projects

  • LUMEN, from January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2027, complementary and multidisciplinary tools for searching for sources;
  • GRAPHIA, from January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2027, a knowledge graph for social sciences and humanities;
  • ATRIUM, from January 1, 2024, to December 31, 2027, how to connect different infrastructures for social sciences and humanities;
  • CRAFT-OA, from January 1, 2023, to December 31, 2025, scientific journals and technical recommendations;
  • GraspOS, from January 1, 2023, to December 31, 2025, responsible metrics for open access resources;

Completed

  • Palomera, from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2024, European landscape of scientific monographs and national open access policies;
  • DIAMAS, from 1 September 2022 to 31 August 2025, European landscape of scientific journals and editorial recommendations (development of EDCH and DDH);
  • Operas PLUS, from 1 September 2022 to 31 August 2025, organisation and operation of OPERAS (development of the Pathfinder tool);
  • Skills4eosc, from 1 September 2022 to 31 August 2025, training teachers in open science;
  • OAeBU, from 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2025, freely accessible data for the analysis of open access monographs;
  • Translations and Open Science, from 1 October 2022 to 1 October 2023, advantages and disadvantages of machine translation;
  • COESO project, from January 1, 2021, to December 31, 2023, citizen science and communication in the social sciences and humanities (development of the VERA tool);
  • Triple, from October 1, 2019, to March 1, 2023, a single point of access for social sciences and humanities resources (development of the GoTriple tool);
  • OPERAS-P, from July 1, 2019, to June 1, 2021, plan to establish an infrastructure service (development of the PRISM tool);
  • HIRMEOS, from January 1, 2017, to June 30, 2019, added value of open access monographs (development of the Metrics tool);
  • OPERAS-D, from January 1, 2017, to June 1, 2018, infrastructure service structure.

 


Peter Čerče: Impressions of the upcoming OJS 3.5 updates (September 5, 2025)

Training on editorial and authorial work with OJS and the anti-plagiarism program iThenticate (February 12, 2025)

First OPERAS-SI meeting (May 28, 2024), minutes and initiative to ARIS

Presentation of the OPERAS infrastructure and GoTriple service (April 14, 2023)

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