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Thai university libraries are given the main responsibility for selecting and digitising the nation’s local information on history, lifestyles, culture, and traditions. The compiled...

Biodiversity citizen science contributes to a large and meaningful body of data. More transparency can help new entrants to learn approaches that are otherwise implicit or chara...

Recently, Sweden was approved as a full national member of the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH). The membership provides researchers in Sweden with access to a rang...

It has now been announced who will be honoured with the title of Honorary Doctor: Former Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, entrepreneur and investor Staffan Hillberg, and Professor Xianyi Zeng of ENSAIT, Uni...

“It is clear that society has failed in our environmental communication in some way. Today's advanced technology provides us with extensive information about the critical situat...

Is it possible to tell something about a person from what is on their bookshelf? This is the question asked by Arvid Jakobsson, Court Librarian at the Bernadotte Library at the Royal Palace of Sweden, who has ...

Several of the university's researchers have once again been included in a prestigious international ranking of the most cited researchers in the world. This list was drawn up by researchers at Stanford ...

Gustaf Nelhans, Senior Lecturer at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, has been selected as an expert in the National Library of Sweden’s reference group for work with the government's mis...

Elisa Tattersall Wallin, Senior Lecturer at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, was first runner-up for the iSchools prestigious “Doctoral Dissertation Award” in her...

The Swedish Research Council has now granted funds for a doctoral programme in Library and Information Science to be coordinated by the University of Borås. This will mean a ...

The university is launching a new research centre, INCLUDE, for research on inclusion and accessibility. This idea came about in con...

There is a climate crisis, it is an election year, and many people are keen to set the agenda in media debates when it comes to sustainable energy. What is the role of Google’s search engine and other digital ...

It started with a job in a bookstore and an introductory course in literary studies. Today, Ola Pilerot is Professor of Library and Information Science, with a strong commitment to making sure research is o...

University libraries and librarians can play an increasingly important role in the research process. But supporting researchers is a partly invisible job, which means certain difficulties. This is one of...

Is better information literacy the solution to conspiracy theories and misinformation? These problems are more complex than that. So says Jutta Haider, at the Swedish School of Library and I...