On a Monday in November, it felt like I was looking behind the curtain of a grand theatre. Everything had happened quickly. After getting the idea for a FUN staff visit and green light from my home organization, I was warmly welcomed to the University of Helsinki Library by University Librarian Minna Niemi-Grundström. Many reasons to smile. I …
The University of the Arts Helsinki is a multidisciplinary arts university, ranging from deep artistic research to more traditional scientific research. The diversity of research traditions also influences the materials offered by the university library. The University of the Arts’ resources – both electronic and printed – support the University’s activities. At the same time, …
Open science is no longer a new undertaking for university libraries. Its forms and conten, however, has changed since the beginning: new international and national policies have seen the light of day and some of the tasks have been standardised and have reached a maturity level which warrants a renewal of the local policies at …
The PUBMET conference held in Zadar, Croatia, celebrated its tenth anniversary this year. Originating as a small, initially local conference, it has grown into an internationally significant forum for open publishing discussions, attracting influential speakers in the field every year. Changing Research Publications from Commodities to Public Goods The highlight of this year’s conference was …
Teaching is once again experiencing the winds of change, and this is also the case at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF). Recently, flexible learning and the openness of learning and teaching have been on the surface. The openness of learning is a natural part of flexible learning, where everyone has more opportunities to learn …
As part of the measures of its current strategy period, FUN organized an invitational webinar on RRS (Rights Retention Strategy) for university library managers and experts from their organizations. Obstacles to the open publication of research results served as the bridge for the webinar. Open publication of research results is a prerequisite for everyone to …
Autumn brings a lot of working group activities. FUN has returned from summer holidays. The work started in mid-August when FUN organized an RRS webinar where experts could exchange ideas about the current Rights Retention Strategy (RRS). FUN’s working committee met on August 22nd, when it was decided, among other things, to establish a working …
Over the spring week of 8.-11.5., I had the pleasure of being accepted into FUN Finnish University Libraries’ Network’s staff visit program, with the University of Eastern Finland’s Joensuu campus as my destination. I had been mulling over the idea of getting to know another university library’s practices and facilities for a while now, especially …
Were I to describe the new action plan of the University Libraries’ Network with few words, they would be cooperation, open science, change in materials, and futures thinking. FUN Finnish University Libraries’ Network held its first meeting of the year 2023 at the beginning of February, when a new action plan, prepared by the new …
The seemingly fast-paced development of artificial intelligence software has been a topic of much discussion in both mainstream media as well as the internal channels of individual institutes. Linked below is an interesting and thorough insight into the workings of the ChatGPT chatbot from the perspective of library information specialists, written by Maarit Putous and …