Maribor

I learn from a correspondent this morning that the Press of the University of Maribor in Slovenia has joined the Open Science movement. With Slovenia being known to me as a source of rather good white wine, for example that noticed at reference 3, as being at the northern end of the Adriatic Sea and with Maribor being an old town, on the River Drava, in the north east of the country. Home to the oldest functioning grape vine in the world, more than 400 years old, snapped above. However, Wikipedia tells me that while it might well be the oldest, the oldest properly documented grape vine is our own, in Hampton Court Palace. Also that for commercial purposes, a hundred years old is old for a grape vine.

With the seeds of the university being planted in the middle of the nineteenth century when Maribor was made the seat of a bishop and a seminary was established there.

They go to the bother of having a version of their website (reference 1) in English and I suppose that the more ambitious of their academics need to be able to produce papers in that language. Maybe you could manage as a teacher there without be able to speak Slovenian at all.

Reference 1: https://www.um.si/en/about/About/Pages/default.aspx. 

Reference 2: https://www.scienceopen.com/.

Reference 3: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/2018/07/wine-shipper.html.