15 articles in this issue
Helge Salvesen
In the very early days of the Open Access movement (the concept had, in fact, just been coined at that time) former library director at UiT Helge Salvesen held the introductory speech at a seminar called "Open Online Access to Research", organised by the ... see more
Helene N. Andreassen
The Tromsø Recommendations for Citation of Research Data in Linguistics were published in 2019, with a twofold objective: To provide a guide on how to cite research data in linguistics according to good practices, and to contribute to making linguistics a... see more
Tamer Abu-Alam
Data from the Polar Regions are of critical importance to modern research and decision makers. Regardless of their disciplinary and institutional affiliations, researchers rely heavily on the comparison of existing data with new data sets to assess change... see more
Leif Longva
The series of annual Munin Conferences was born in 2006. This is a short history of how it happened, and how the conference has developed over the years, step by step, into one of the most important conferences in Europe within its scope. Scholarly publis... see more
Erik Lieungh
I denne artikkelen oppsummerer vi arbeidet med podkasten Open Science Talk, som ble skapt av Universitetsbiblioteket ved UiT Norges arktiske universitet høsten 2018. Dette er en engelskspråklig podkast om åpen vitenskap. Vi forteller litt om motivasjonen ... see more
Mariann Løkse
Nye erfaringer kan tvinge fram nye tanker og i noen tilfeller ny praksis. Våren 2020 ble et unikt semester på mange måter. Fra en dag til den neste ble digital undervisning normen og ordinære forelesninger og seminarer ble satt på pause. Kan vi bruke noen... see more
Obiajulu Odu, Aysa Ekanger
This is a story about how an Open Journal Systems-based library publishing service tried (and failed) to implement XML in one of its publications. We ran a small project to look at how journals we support could develop a JATS XML-based publishing workflow... see more
Johanne Raade
I denne teksten beskrives kort utviklingen med åpen publisering etter 2003, da Helge Salvesen holdt sitt foredrag om det nye fenomenet Open Access. Salvesen peker i sitt foredrag på noen sentrale dilemmaer i arbeidet med åpen tilgang, slik han så det i 20... see more
Jan Erik Frantsvåg, Per Pippin Aspaas
Dette er ment som en historisk oversikt over utviklingen i viktige tall på Open Access-området (OA, dvs. åpen tilgang til vitenskapelige publikasjoner på nettet) fra og med 2011 til og med 2019. Universitetet i Tromsø, nå UiT Norges arktiske universitet, ... see more
Per Pippin Aspaas, Aysa Ekanger, Johanne Raade
In the spring semester of 2020, Stein Høydalsvik turns 67. At the same time, he retires from his job, after having spent 23 full years of his career in the service of a university and its library. With the help of Stein, UiT The Arctic University of Norwa... see more
Lene Ottesen
Per mars 2020 har Norge 11 avtaler med akademiske forlag som sikrer umiddelbar åpen tilgang. UiT har sluttet seg til alle disse avtalene. I den spede begynnelse viser publiseringstallene at mer blir åpent tilgjengelig. Tidlige internasjonale erfaringer ha... see more
Aysa Ekanger, Solveig Enoksen
How can a library publishing service with limited resources help editorial teams of peer-reviewed journals in their work? This paper focuses on the technical aspects of the peer review workflow that, if set up and adhered to properly, can contribute to im... see more
Bård Smedsrød, Leif Longva
The prestige ranking of scholarly journals is costly to science and to society. Researchers’ payoff in terms of career progress is determined largely from where they publish their findings, and less from the content of their scholarly work. This fact crea... see more
Lars Figenschou
God forvaltning og deling av forskningsdata er helt sentralt for å fremme transparens og kvalitet i forskningen. Seniorprosjektet (2017–2019) har tilbudt UiTs forskerseniorer hjelp med tilrettelegging av forskningsdata slik at dataene ikke går tapt. I sam... see more
Philipp Conzett
Research data repositories play a crucial role in the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) ecosystem of digital objects. DataverseNO is a national, generic repository for open research data, primarily from researchers affiliated with Norwe... see more