Lecture: Open Publishing in the Republic of Slovenia. Book market anomaly or academic necessity? Marginal conditions of endurance.

LECTURE: OPEN PUBLISHING IN THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA. BOOK MARKET ANOMALY OR ACADEMIC NECESSITY? MARGINAL CONDITIONS OF ENDURANCE.

On Thursday, 24 October 2024, at 14:00 you are invited at the UP University Library (Trubarjeva 1, Koper) to the lecture Open Publishing in the Republic of Slovenia. Book market anomaly or academic necessity? Marginal conditions of endurance. Lecturer will be Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jonatan Vinkler. The event will also be streamed online (Zoom: https://upr-si.zoom.us/j/95768284413, Meeting ID: 957 6828 4413). The lecture will be held in Slovenian. 

The lecture will cover the following topics:

  • book – market goods: historical perspective;
  • book turnaround: market model;
  • bookstore: market model – example;
  • book turnaround in open publishing;
  • legal requirements in the Republic of Slovenia;
  • book turnaround: model of open publishing;
  • open publishing: funding, equation of survival, optimisation of processes and number of operators, competences of colleagues, advantages of the publishing process ‘in the native house’;
  • sources for funding open scientific publications in the Republic of Slovenia;
  • open source publishing models;
  • portals of open editions in the Republic of Slovenia;
  • open publishing in RS: Schrödinger’s cat.


Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jonatan Vinkler is a specialist in the literary and cultural history of the early modern age, editor-in-chief at the University of Primorska Press, editor and librarian. Editor-in-chief of Collected Works of Primož Trubar and editor of the individual books of the mentioned scientific critical edition (2003–2018: the third, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth – with F. Kranjc-Vrečko, the eighth, the ninth – with B. Javornikom and M. Šetinc, the twelfth, the thirteenth and the fourteenth book). He is the editor of a scientific critical edition of the Symphony in F major, opus 68: ‘Ljubljana transcript’, Ludwig van Beethoven with an international review in an indexed scientific journal (A&HCI, Scopus (h), ERIH PLUS …). On the reception of the Hussite and Lutheran Reformations, the imaginary of the ‘Turkish’ threat in the Slovenian cultural space and Czech-Slovenian and Slovene-Czech cultural and literary contacts in the century of ‘townspeople and revolutions’ he has published several single-authored scientific papers and monographs, which are cited in domestic and foreign scientific papers and monographs. Bibliography of dr. Vinkler has 360 units; he is the mentor of several doctoral students. He is the director of the University of Primorska University Library, chairman of the Board of Directors of the University of Primorska, and vice president of the National Council for Library Activities. He has received several awards for his work, among them the Prešeren Award of the FF UL (2000), the Trubar’s plaque of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Republic of (2017) and the Golden Plaque of the University of Primorska (2020).

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The event is part of the OSUP series – Open Science at the University of Primorska. The event is organised by the University of Primorska as part of the project SPOZNAJ (Support for the Implementation of Open Science Principles in Slovenia).

You can watch past events that were organised within the OSUP series on the YouTube channel of the UP University Library >>

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Project SPOZNAJ is co-financed by the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation and the European Union – NextGenerationEU through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan.

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