Jan Erik Frantsvåg

🌟 Excited to welcome Burgundy as a #Munin2025 sponsor! ❄️📚 Supporting publishers with open access, subscriptions & market reach, they help share top research across disciplines. 🌍💡 #OpenScience #ScholarlyPublishing #UiTNorway #Burgundy #AcademicPublishing

MDPI har vært/er omdiskutert. Men det har aldri vært svartelistet, så dette er ikke en "hvitelisting". Noen av tidsskriftene deres har havnet på nivå X eller nivå 0, men det store flertallet av tidsskriftene er på nivå 1. Så så langt anser vi dette for å være et akseptabelt forlag.

🌍 Excited to welcome @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social as a sponsor of #MuninConference2025! 🎉 A pioneer in #OpenAccess publishing, MDPI shares our commitment at UiT to openness, collaboration, and knowledge for a sustainable future in the Arctic and beyond. ❄️📚 #OpenScience #Research #MDPI

🌍✨ Don’t miss this key panel at #Munin2025: Indigenous Rights in Research – Future Needs for Involvement of Indigenous Perspectives.

How can we ensure FAIR & CARE research that centers Indigenous voices?

👉 doi.org/10.7557/5.8332

#OpenScience #DecolonizingResearch #UiTNorway #IndigenousKnowledge

Som det heter i Vett og Uvett: Det e'kje kunsten å skaffe sæ kvinnfolk. Det e bærre å slæppe dæm på sæ'. (Sitert etter hukommelsen. )

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/world-university-rankings-2026-china-lags-global-collaboration

Rangeringer av universiteter er først og fremst bullshit. Du kan ikke måle kvalitet ut fra antall publiseringer, siteringer og internasjonalt samarbeid. UiS skal ha ros for å ha trukket seg fra Times Higher sin kåring www.khrono.no/svenskene-fa...

Strategies for publishers to make scholarly metadata openly available | Septentrio Conference Series Research information, or scholarly metadata, is important for decision making around strategic priorities, distribution of resources, and evaluation of researchers and institutions. It is also used by funders, institutions and governments to assess the effect of policies, and by researchers and societal stakeholders to find and assess research results. The value of openly available research information is increasingly recognized, as it supports fair research assessment and makes it possible for everyone to find and assess relevant research.

🌍 New panel at #Munin2025! 🌍
How can publishers make more – and better – scholarly metadata openly available?
Join top experts from OA2020, DOAJ, CERN & PKP to explore strategies for #OpenMetadata & #OpenResearchInformation 💬
🔗 doi.org/10.7557/5.8155

#OpenScience #UiTNorway

Issues of scientific transparency in small-language countries | Septentrio Conference Series The pursuit of scientific transparency is not a simple matter in small-language countries.

🌍 How transparent is science in small-language countries? Milda Baltrimienė explores this dilemma in her abstract — balancing openness, integrity & linguistic identity in research. 🤔 Read more 👇 doi.org/10.7557/5.8164
#Munin2025 #OpenScience #UiT #ResearchIntegrity

Is there a relationship between the metadata publishers submit to Crossref and the submission systems they use? 🤔

We (w/ @msphelps.bsky.social) analyzed 153 publishers and 4 major systems to find out.

👉 doi.org/10.31222/osf...

#OpenScience #Crossref #OpenMetadata #BarcelonaDeclaration

The Diamond Discovery Hub (DDH) is officially LIVE! 🥳

Your new reference for #DiamondOA journals — scholar-led, free to publish, free to read.

Developed by @craft-oa.bsky.social, the DDH brings visibility, credibility and recognition to Diamond OA journals across Europe 👀👇

#OpenAccess #CRAFT_OA25

🌟 Proud to welcome @emeraldpublishing.bsky.social as a sponsor for the 20th #MuninConference on Scholarly Publishing! ❄️🤝

For 60 years, they’ve championed research that makes a real-world impact. 📚💡
👉 www.emerald.com/publishing

#OpenScience #ResearchImpact #UiT #OpenAccess #AcademicPublishing

Hva med en kvist gullregn?

Indigenous rights in, over or to research? | Septentrio Conference Series The question of rights in Indigenous research contains a set of conflicting principles: If the result of the research is decided by people outside of the relevant research project, we no longer have a free research, and might as well hand over the job to spindoctors. We will thus argue for free research when it comes to research results; any alternative to that will undermine the validity of the research conducted.

🌍✨ Munin Conference 2025 Spotlight ✨🌍
Who holds the rights in Indigenous research – in, over, or to research? Explore tensions between academic freedom, politics & Indigenous communities.

🔗 doi.org/10.7557/5.8314

#MuninConference2025 #OpenScience #IndigenousResearch

I think the jury is still out on that 😁

PKP is hiring a Managing Director - Public Knowledge Project The Public Knowledge Project, a Core Research Facility of SFU, invites applications for the position of Managing Director

JOB OPPORTUNITY: @pkp.sfu.ca is looking for a Managing Director! This is a rare opportunity to lead a highly impactful #scholcomm organization. Role works closely with me (Scientific Director) to provide strategic and operational leadership. Help us spread the word!

pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...

A Funder-Driven Registered Report Initiative Compared with Standard Applications: A Study on Research Quality | Septentrio Conference Series Sigrid Hegna Ingvaldsen, PhD, is a Researcher and Research Advisor at Stiftelsen Dam. She has a background in clinical research fields and neuroscience, and her current research focus includes initiatives for open research and social sustainability in health.

🚀 #MuninConference2025 Abstract Spotlight! 🌍📚 How do funder-driven Registered Reports impact research quality? 🔍 Study of 1170 apps explores rigor, transparency & replicability in health research. 📖 Read more: septentrio.uit.no/index.php/SC...
#OpenScience #UiT @johesselberg.bsky.social

Blog Post and head shot of Ramazan Turgut

Ramazan Turgut, DOAJ Ambassador and Managing Editor for Türkiye, provides an analysis of Türkiye’s #OpenAccess landscape, highlighting critical infrastructure, strengths, and challenges #DiamondOA
blog.doaj.org/2025/09/29/a...

Making diamond OA journals visible: How CRAFT-OA empowers open infrastructure | Septentrio Conference Series Diamond Open Access journals are a vital part of scholarly communication but they often lack the technical capacity to meet visibility standards set by major aggregators, indexes, and funders. With limited staff and budgets, many editorial teams face systemic barriers to interoperability, discoverability, and compliance with open science policies. The EU-funded CRAFT-OA project aims to address this by strengthening the most widely used open-source journal software in the Diamond ecosystem: Open Journal Systems (OJS).

🌍✨ Diamond OA matters – but needs visibility!
Martina Dvořáková & Radek Gomola show how #CRAFTOA boosts OJS & Diamond OA journals with FAIR tools & plugins 🔧💡
📖 Read more: doi.org/10.7557/5.8304

#Munin2025 #OpenScience #OJS #DiamondOA

Men Æ må føle seg oversett!

🌍📚 Discover how Finland’s National RDM Training Network builds expertise & bridges gaps in open science! 💡 Join us at the 20th #MuninConference to explore collaboration & shared knowledge. 🌐🤝

🔗 doi.org/10.7557/5.8218

#OpenScience #RDM #Zenodo

CARE & FAIR: Opposing or Aligning Concerns? | Septentrio Conference Series The CARE principles aim to empower Indigenous peoples by promoting their active participation in the governance of Indigenous data, ensuring Indigenous responsibility, and aligning the purpose of data governance with their values and priorities. In contrast, the FAIR principles, widely adopted across various disciplines, provide a framework to enhance data stewardship and facilitate data sharing.

🌐 Munin 2025 Abstract Spotlight 🌐
"CARE & FAIR: Opposing or Aligning Concerns?" by Else Grete Broderstad 🧩

How can we keep Indigenous voices central in research data governance?

🔗 septentrio.uit.no/index.php/SC...

#MuninConference #OpenScience #CARE #FAIR #Sami #DataGovernance #ResearchEthics

The current landscape of the Open Science Initiative in the ASEAN region | Septentrio Conference Series The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (2021) has served as a global guiding framework, encouraging regional organizations, countries, and institutions to make scientific knowledge openly available, reusable, inclusive, and transparent by promoting collaborative scientific practices for the benefit of science and society. Regional blocs, such as the European Union (EU), whose member states are connected by shared regional economic integration and interests, have proactively engaged in influencing knowledge ecosystems, advancing policies on open science, and sustaining collaborative dialogues within Europe’s research and scientific communities as exemplified in the EU open science policy (European Commission, 2016) and Plan S initiative (European Science Foundation, 2018). The African Union (AU) is also increasing momentum in supporting policies on collaborative open knowledge sharing through the endorsement of free trade agreements within the African continent and its policy commitment to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (Okafor et al., 2022). Several single-country and institutional efforts from Southeast Asia have demonstrated strong support for open-access publishing (Abidin et al., 2024; Awasthi et al., 2025; Irawan et al., 2022) and the development of open repositories (Lee-Hwa et al., 2013; Mostafa et al., 2024). However, such policy coherence, as seen in the EU and AU efforts to advance collaborative and regional-driven policy initiatives, remains underexplored in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). There is also a limited understanding of how ASEAN, as a regional bloc, supports open science in policy and practice. Thus, this presentation explores the current landscape of open science initiatives in the ASEAN region by addressing two questions: (1) How are ASEAN member states reflecting on the framework outlined in the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science? and (2) What are the current regional developments, including benefits, opportunities, and challenges, in shaping ASEAN open science policy? Using an exploratory review method, this study draws on peer-reviewed literature from Web of Science and Scopus, as well as grey literature from publicly available government portals and websites to identify emerging themes and patterns. This presentation aims to map the current landscape of ASEAN open science initiatives, highlighting the benefits, opportunities, and challenges, and revealing patterns of engagement and collaboration across ASEAN member states and their connection with other global actors in open science. The overall findings contribute to informing policy development and strengthening the ASEAN open science movement.

🌏 New abstract! 🌏
"The current landscape of the Open Science Initiative in the ASEAN region" explores how ASEAN responds to UNESCO’s Open Science Recommendation & shapes policy for collaboration. 🌐🔍

🔗 septentrio.uit.no/index.php/SC...

#MuninConference2025 #OpenScience #ASEAN #GlobalCollaboration

📚✨ Bli med på #Forskningsdagene 2025! ✨📚
Endre Lund Eriksen leser fra sin nye bok "Noras ark" 🐜🌊 – et hjertevarmt eventyr om mot, klima og oppfinnsomhet. Etterpå: samtale med klimaforsker Jørgen Berge 🌿📖

📅 21. sept – både kl 1230 og kl 14
📍 Kultur- og samfunnsfagbibl

#UiT #NorasArk #Klima #Familie

That would probably count as innovation ...

Vacancy: Project-based editorial contractor, freelance – DOAJ Blog https://blog.doaj.org/2025/09/04/vacancy-project-based-editorial-contractor-freelance/

Big thanks to 🌟 Cottage Labs 🌟 for sponsoring #Munin2025! Their open-source expertise helps drive open science and sustainable research. Proud to partner with them at UiT – a true #DrivingForceInTheNorth! ❄️📚 #OpenScience #OpenAccess #ResearchData

This should have been big news!

Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in […]

Disputas: Birgit Kvikne Birgit Kvikne disputerer for ph.d.-grada i samfunnsvitskap, studieretning informasjons-, bibliotek- og arkivstudiar.

I dag disputerer Birgit Kvikne med avhandlingen "Nobody talks to us … Nobody asks us” A study of aphasia and information seeking i bibliotek- og informasjonsvitenskap @oslomet #bibliosky www.oslomet.no/om/arrangeme...

🌍📚 Excited to welcome @crossref.bsky.social as a sponsor of the Munin Conference at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway! 🙌 Supporting global research & open science together. ❄️📖

👉 www.crossref.org

#MuninConference #OpenScience #Crossref #UiTNorway

The @doaj.bsky.social is consulting on whether to retire their Added/Withdrawn change logs. There is a short survey and feedback is very welcome:

blog.doaj.org/2025/07/14/l...