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The aim of this paper is to point out the importance of the concept of Open science within the academic community and highlight the connection and application of this global idea within higher education, emphasizing its advantages as well as the obstacles that may be encountered. The paper will highlight numerous European initiatives that are being developed between different organizations with the aim of advocating Open science. Furthermore, the emphasis of the paper will be on the idea of openness in science and the importance of the values promoted by the European University initiative in relation to the given topic. Methodology. this paper aims to show, through the Case study - example of the Library and Documentation Center of the Faculty of Economics and Business in Zagreb (FEB), that it is possible to successfully use the integrative approach of open science within the academic community by following examples of good practice within the University and higher education libraries. The limitation of the paper is that it is a Case study of one organization - the Faculty of Economics and Business Zagreb and its Library and Documentation Center. Originality. The originality of this paper is that on the basis of researching recent literature of the foreign and Croatian experts on open science and higher education, we present an overview of this topic from the aspect of the higher education Library and Documentation Center of the Faculty of Economics and Business Zagreb (FEB). The social impact and practical application of this paper is manifested in the need to promote the concept of open science in higher education, describing the current practice at the FEB Zagreb and the associated higher education library, which shows the efforts to adopt the model of "openness" through various activities and numerous projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]