📣 More time to submit to #Munin2027! ✍️ The deadline is extended to 25 October. Acceptance notifications: 20 November. Join the open science community in Tromsø in April 2027! 🌍🔓
Jan Erik Frantsvåg
@jefrantsvag.bsky.social
Open Access activist, book lover, curious about most things. Work at the University Library at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
📚 How did Indigenous peoples shape European knowledge? A new open-access book explores Indigenous peoples in Fennoscandia and beyond, c. 1500–1800. Edited by UiT’s Per Pippin Aspaas & Andreas Klein with Anna Fredriksson. 🔓 brill.com/edcollbook-o... #OpenAccess
🌐In Part 1 of this interview with #DOAJ @jefrantsvag.bsky.social asserts that universities should invest in community-owned publishing infrastructure rather than relying heavily on commercial publishers and APCs @petersuber.bsky.social @eudch.bsky.social
🎙️ blog.doaj.org/2026/10/12/p...
📚 Lucky to be part of the team organising Munin Conference 2027 at UiT! 🌍
Our new promo video is out 🎥 And fun fact: at 7 seconds, you can spot my library office! 👀📚
⏰ Reminder! Don't miss the 11th European Rights Retention Community of Practice meeting on 8 Oct, 12:00 CEST.
🔍 National rights retention progress in Norway and Spain, featuring:
🎙️ @aysaekanger.bsky.social, Bror-Magnus S. Strand, Ignasi Labastida
👉 Register now: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
There is a balance between getting a little information from many, and getting much information from few. I think we are all all too willing to assume everyone is willing to donate much time to give us good responses to questions that often are unclear to them. They are not.
23 prosent av unge forskere sier i en fersk undersøkelse at de har blitt presset til å gi gaveforfatterskap til andre og mer erfarne forskere. www.khrono.no/unge-forsker...
Read the latest paper in NOPOS on how to disseminate #OpenAccess research through a short-form video format - doi.org/10.7557/11.8....
@astron0rd.bsky.social
🌍 Munin Conference 2027 offers waivers to make participation more accessible! Registration + dinner, with hotel support for extended waivers. Priority: presenters & applicants outside Europe. Apply by 21 Oct: site.uit.no/muninconf/wa... 📝 #MuninConference #OpenScience #UiT
📢 Call for submissions: Munin Conference 2027 in Tromsø ❄️
Theme: Reliability, Equity, Impact 🌍
We welcome papers, workshops, panels & experimental formats on open science, research integrity, FAIR data & more.
📝 Deadline: 16 Oct 2026
New study: At Nature Communications (2016-2022), papers approved by #OpenPeerReview had higher #altmetrics scores than papers approved by conventional #PeerReview.
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-9...
