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Scholarly publications

Sundin, Olof & Helena Francke (2009). "In Search of Credibility: Pupils' Information Practices in Learning Environments." Information Research 14.4, paper 418. <http://informationr.net/ir/14-4/paper418.html>

Francke, Helena & Olof Sundin (2009). "Format Agnostics or Format Believers? How Students in High School Use Genre to Assess Credibility." Short paper in ASIS&T 09, Proceedings of the 72th Annual Meeting, volume 46. <http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM09/open-proceedings/posters/58.xml>

Maceviciute, Elena, Tom Wilson & Helena Francke (2009). "Developing a Digital Libraries Master's Programme." Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: Proceedings of the 13th European Conference, ECDL 2009, Corfu, Greece, September 27 - October 2, 2009. Berlin & Heidelberg: Springer. 402-407. <http://www.springerlink.com/content/p71p234w08wn18n7/fulltext.pdf>

Sundin, Olof, Helena Francke & Jack Andersen (2009). "Materialitet och remediering: konsekvenser för informationskompetens." Informationskompetenser: om lärande i informationspraktiker och informationssökning i lärandepraktiker. Eds. Jenny Hedman & Anna Lundh. Stockholm: Carlssons. 181-206. Link to publisher

Coto, Rolando, Helena Francke & Saray Córdoba (2009). "Metadata Usage Tendencies in Latin American Electronic Journals." ELPUB2009. Rethinking Electronic Publishing: Innovation in Communication Paradigms and Technologies - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Milan, Italy 10-12 June 2009. Susanna Mornati & Turid Hedlund, eds. Roma: Edizioni Nuova Cultura. ISBN 978-88-6134-326-6, pp. 311-334.
<http://conferences.aepic.it/index.php/elpub/elpub2009/paper/view/155/64>

Francke, Helena (2009). "Towards an Architectural Document Analysis." Journal of Information Architecture 1.1. <http://journalofia.org/volume1/issue1/03-francke/jofia-0101-03-francke.pdf>

Francke, Helena (2008). "The State of Metadata in Open Access Journals: Possibilities and Restrictions." ELPUB2008. Open Scholarship: Authority, Community, and Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Toronto, Canada 25-27 June 2008. Leslie Chan & Susanna Mornati, eds. ISBN 978-0-7727-6315-0, pp. 56-67. <http://elpub.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/Show?_id=056_elpub2008>

Francke, Helena (2008). (Re)creations of Scholarly Journals: Document and Information Architecture in Open Access Journals. Borås: Valfrid. Diss. Link to abstract and dissertation in full text.

Francke, Helena (2007). "Negotiating Cognitive Authority: The Case of Scholarly Electronic Journals." A Document (Re)turn: Contributions from a Research Field in Transition. Eds. Roswitha Skare, Niels Windfeld Lund & Andreas Vårheim. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 117-133. Link to publisher

Francke, Helena (2005). "Economics and Quality Estimation of Open Access E-journals." Swedish Library Research 15.1: 32-45. <http://www.hb.se/bhs/svbf/arkiv/helfra.pdf>

Francke, Helena (2005). "What's in a Name? Contextualizing the Document Concept." Literary and Linguistic Computing 20.1: 61-69. <preprint>

Ek, Ann-Katrin & Helena Francke (1999). Svenska kataloger på webben: en undersökning av samarbetsmöjligheter mellan sex nationella katalogtjänster. Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Bibliotekshögskolan, Magisteruppsats 1999:34.

Scholarly conference presentations

Francke, Helena (2009). "Incredible Resources? The Role of User-generated Web Sites in a High School Setting." Presentation as part of the panel "New Modes of Information Behavior Emerging from the Social Web" (G. Widén-Wulff, I. Huvila, H. Hall, M. Kronqvist-Berg, O. Nivakoski & H. Francke) at ASIS&T 09, Thriving on Diversity - Information Opportunities in a Pluralistic World, November 6-11, Vancouver, Canada. <http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM09/open-proceedings/panels/8.xml>

Francke, Helena (2008). "Remediating Scholarly Journals: Changing Materiality, Changing Practices." Presentation as part of the panel "In form & informing: Materiality and Information Seeking" (T. Anderson, S. Kjellberg, H. Francke & O. Sundin) at ASIS&T 08, People Transforming Information - Information Transforming People, October 24-29, Columbus, Ohio.

Francke, Helena (2006). "The (re)creation of scholarly journals: Document and information architecture in Open Access e-journals." Paper presented at The Annual Meeting of the Document Academy, Berkeley, CA, 13-15 October 2006.
<http://http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/events/
docam/06/papers/DOCAM06_paper_Francke.pdf>

Francke, Helena (2005). "Textures and Structures in E-journals." Presentation at The Technological Texture: Meetings between the Humanities and Information Technology [Den teknologiska texturen: Möten mellan humaniora och informationsteknik], Umeå University 17-18 January 2005.

Francke, Helena (2004). "The 'Document' in Document Architecture". Presentation at ALLC/ACH 2004, The 16th Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers in the Humanities, Göteborg University, 11-16 June 2004.

Hansson, Joacim, Helena Francke, Mats Dahlström & Mikael Gunnarsson (2003). "Documents in Library and Information Science: Sociotechnical Dimensions in Document Genre and Architecture Studies." Paper presented at The Annual Meeting of the Document Academy, Berkeley, CA, 13-15 August 2003.
<http://thedocumentacademy.hum.uit.no/events/
docam03.abstracts/boras.paper.html>

Popular science publications

Francke, Helena (2008). "Vad vi har att utgå ifrån: grunder för källkritiska bedömningar i open access-tidskrifter [What Can We Base Judgments On? Bases for Assessments of Credibility in Open Access Journals]. Paper presented at Mötesplats inför framtiden: Arbetsliv, utbildning, forskning, Borås, 15-16 October 2008. <http://bada.hb.se/handle/2320/4056>

Francke, Helena (2008). "Telling a Different Story in Open Access Journals?" ScieCom Info: Nordic-Baltic Forum for Scientific Communication 4.2. <http://www.sciecom.org/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/viewFile/652/446>

Francke, Helena (2008). "E-tidskrifter: mer av samma sak? [E-journals: more of the same?]" InfoTrend: Nordisk tidskrift för informationsspecialister 63.2: 39-44.

Popular science presentations

Talk ("Källkritik och nya medier i skolan") at Inspirationsdagar arranged by GR Utbildning, Göteborg 26-27 October 2009.

Talk ("Om svart och vitt och grå nyanser däremellan. Erfarenheter från EXAKT-projektet") at the workshop "Att utveckla sin undervisning i informationskompetens på gymnasium och högskola" arranged by Lund University Libraries and others, Lund 5 October 2009.

Talk ("Om Webb 2.0 och källkritik inom EXAKT-projektet") at the release party for Skriften Framsteget Specials ABM-nummer arranged by ABM-styrgruppen/Västra götaland. Göteborg 16 April 2009. See also the article in Framsteget Special.

Talk ("Biblioteksforskning") for the seminar Framtidens bibliotek arranged by the public libraries in Säffle and Arvika, Säffle , 2009-02-17. Slides available, see also article in Säffletidningen.

Talk ("Wikipedia och källkritik i gymnasieskolan") for Svensk Biblioteksförenings Regionförening Östergötland och Jönköpings län, meeting on "Wikipedia: en bra informationskälla?", Norrköping 2008-11-26.

Co-presenter of "Doktoranderna vid Institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap presenterar sin forskning." (2004). Presentation at Mötesplats inför framtiden: Arbetsliv, utbildning, forskning, Borås, 13-14 October 2004.
<http://www.hb.se/bhs/B&I-konf2004/pdf/Doktorandpresentation.pdf>

Other international presentations

Contribution to the panel discussion about issues and strategies for the future of LIS in the Nordic countries, at the conference Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskaplig forskning i Norden: Lägesbestämning och strategier för framtiden, Borås, 23-24 april, 2009.

Francke, Helena (2005). "The (re)creation of scholarly journals: Document and information architecture in Open Access e-journals." Poster presentation at the International Summer School on Digital Documents, Tromsø, Norway, June 27-July 3, 2005.

Francke, Helena (2005). "The (re)creation of scholarly journals: Document and information architecture in Open Access e-journals." Presentation at the Doctoral Forum of the 5th International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Sciences, CoLIS 2005 (Context: Nature, Impact, and Role), Glasgow, UK, June 4-8, 2005.

Other publications

Francke, Helena (2009). "Digitala tjänster - kultur, information & kommunikation [Digital services - culture, information & communication]." InfoTrend: Nordisk tidskrift för informationsspecialister 64.2-3: 74-78.

Other activities

Beginning in autumn 2008, I am the assistant advisor for Sara Kjellberg in her doctoral studies in LIS at Lund University, and, from spring 2009, for Jonas Söderholm, doing his doctoral studies in LIS at the University of Borås.

I worked as one of the editors of Human IT: Journal for Information Technology Studies as a Human Science between 1999 and 2007.

I am/have been a member of Bibliotekshögskolans Forskarutbildningsnämnd (the SSLIS Postgraduate Education Committee) in 2003-2004 and spring 2006 as a doctoral student representative, and from spring 2009 as a faculty representative.

I was the assistant to the chair of the Doctoral Forum at CoLIS 6 in Borås, August 13-16, 2007.