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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 & Olof Sundin (2010). "An Inside View: Credibility in Wikipedia from the Perspective of Editors." Presentation at CoLIS 7 : unity in diversity, International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science, London, 21-24 June 2010.

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.

Educational publications

Dahlström, Mats & Helena Francke (2010). "Sustainable LIS Education in a Glocal World." Paper presented at IFLA 2010, Gothenburg 10-15 August 2010. Session 123. <http://www.ifla.org/files/hq/papers/ifla76/123-dahlstrom-en.pdf>

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.

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.

I was the co-ordinator of the Master's programme Digital Services - Culture, Information & Communication from summer 2008 to summer 2010.