Stockholm University Press Blog

Stockholm University Press is celebrating Peer Review Week 2017

11 September, 2017

During Peer Review Week we want to contribute to the future development of an improved and quality assured peer review system. We need tools and incentives to revitalize the mission to share ideas with peers through the process of peer review and publication of results. Earlier years we have participated by publishing interviews with scholars … More Stockholm University Press is celebrating Peer Review Week 2017

Libraries Powering Sustainable Knowledge in the Digital Age

21 August, 2017

Blogpost by Sofie Wennström and Jonas Holm, Stockholm University Library The 46th Annual LIBER Conference in Patras, Greece. July 5–7, 2017 The LIBER conference is an annual event where Library Managers and Librarians meet to discuss new discoveries and share experiences. The conference included a number of workshops on important topics in the research library … More Libraries Powering Sustainable Knowledge in the Digital Age

First textbook published by Stockholm University Press: Performativitet. Teoretiska tillämpningar i konstvetenskap. Edited by Malin Hedlin Hayden and Mårten Snickare

16 August, 2017

Stokholm University Press is proud of publishing its first textbook, addressed to students of Art History. Performativitet. Teoretiska tillämpningar i konstvetenskap (In English: Performativity. Theoretical Applications in Art History). The book is written in Swedish. What does performativity signify? And what does it mean to speak of something as being performative? Aiming to clarify and … More First textbook published by Stockholm University Press: Performativitet. Teoretiska tillämpningar i konstvetenskap. Edited by Malin Hedlin Hayden and Mårten Snickare

Open Science: Providing Skills and Inspiring Change

26 June, 2017

Blog post by Gustav Nilsonne, Stockholm University. Lack of knowledge is an oft-cited impediment to open science. In this context, knowledge may be important both as a motivator for change, and as a means to achieve change. To break down this impediment, we have started a postgraduate course in Open Science, Reproducible Research, and Research … More Open Science: Providing Skills and Inspiring Change

Nordic collaboration from a research data management perspective – NeIC 2017

21 June, 2017

Blogpost by Joakim Philipson and Tuija Drake, Stockholm University Library. NeIC stands for Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration. NeIC conference 2017 took place in Umeå between May 28 and June 1. It was organised by Nordforsk in collaboration with CSC, DeIC, NeIC, NORDUnet, RHnet, SNIC, and UNINETT Sigma2. This is an international meeting place for over 200 … More Nordic collaboration from a research data management perspective – NeIC 2017

Insights from LEARN: Swedish Stakeholders Need to Clarify Expectations on Researchers to Share and Publish Data

19 June, 2017

Blogpost by Sabina Anderberg, Stockholm University and Sverker Holmgren, Uppsala University Representatives of Stockholm University, Uppsala University (also representing NordForsk) and Swedish Research Council took part in the one day conference 6th LEARN end-of-Project Conference – Managing the Data Deluge: Roles and Responsibilities for Your Institution in London 5th of May 2017. The conference provided a lot … More Insights from LEARN: Swedish Stakeholders Need to Clarify Expectations on Researchers to Share and Publish Data

About The Research Data Alliance World Data System Scholarly Link Exchange (Scholix) Working Group

12 June, 2017

Blogpost by Monica Lassi. This post is part of our series of posts reporting from the RDA 9th Plenary (P9), 3-7 April 2017 in Barcelona. About data citation and linked data *Note 1: This is a long post for those interested in data citation and linked data* About Scholix, Scholarly Link Exchange *Note 2: The … More About The Research Data Alliance World Data System Scholarly Link Exchange (Scholix) Working Group

Developing research data services at libraries

8 June, 2017

Blogpost by Monica Lassi. This post is part of our series of posts reporting from the RDA 9th Plenary (P9), 3-7 April 2017 in Barcelona. The Research Data Alliance Libraries for Research Data Interest Group Website for this interest group (IG). Detailed notes are available at Google Docs. An interesting bit of information about this … More Developing research data services at libraries

Legal aspects of open data

4 June, 2017

Blogpost by Sabina Anderberg. This post is part of our series of posts reporting from the RDA 9th Plenary (P9), 3-7 April 2017 in Barcelona. Open Aire held a workshop on the legal aspects of open data. The workshop took place at the Universidad de Barcelona. EU Commissioner Jean-Claude Burgelman talked about the ongoing work … More Legal aspects of open data

About the Research Data Alliance and the Ninth Plenary Meeting

31 May, 2017

This is the first blogpost in a series of posts reporting from the RDA 9th Plenary (P9), 3-7 April 2017 in Barcelona. This is also the first blog post on the Stockholm University Press Blog about research data related issues, focusing on sharing and collaborating between Swedish academic institutions. Some highlights of the RDA Plenary … More About the Research Data Alliance and the Ninth Plenary Meeting