Bilde av Frantsvåg, Jan Erik
Bilde av Frantsvåg, Jan Erik
Psychology and Law Library jan.e.frantsvag@uit.no +4777644950 99506207 (+47) 995 06 207 You can find me here

Jan Erik Frantsvåg


Open Access adviser

Job description

Working full-time on various Open Access activities and projects.

  • WP lead in the EU project DIAMAS
  • Working on expanding the activities of Septentrio Academic Publishing, our journal publishing infrastructure currently publishing six OA journals.
  • Member of the editorial board of the international journal Publications

Earlier project particiapation:

  • Manager of the university's OA publication fund
  • Member of DOAJ Advisory Board
  • Participating in the concortium delivering the OA Diamond report
  • Participating in the EU financed OpenAIRE and OpenAIREplus projects.
  • Participating in the project RoMEO for Norge ("A Norwegian RoMEO") working to gathering self-archiving information from Norwegian publishers/publication and inputting this into SHERPA/RoMEO
  • Taking part in the development of our institutional repository Munin, support activities towards students and researchers and content gathering
  • Norwegian member of the board of ScieCom Info, an OA journal about OA in the Nordic and Baltic countries
  • Chairman of the board of SPARC Europe
  • Member of CRIStin's national expert group on OA

Writes and speaks on Open Access and related issues locally, nationally and internationally.

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Research interests

Open access publishing, open access publishing business models, conditions enabling authors to choose open access, publication funds

Teaching

Taught the course DOK-1010 Document and media theory - 10 ECTS credits Spring term 2013