TODOS seminar on scholarly communication, publishing and open access issues.

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0830 - 0915	Free breakfast and socializing
0915 - 1000	Stuart Shieber, Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication. Stuart will share some Open Access experiences from Harvard and explain why as a PhD student, we should go Open Access and the benefits of it. He will describe as well how publishing OA can affect (positive and negative) the future career for today's Phd- candidates.
1000 - 1030	Questions and discussions
1030 - 1100	Jan Erik Frantsvåg, OA advisor and researcher at UiT. Jan Erik will focus more about the situation of OA at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, and where are it is heading. He will explain what are the differences between OA and traditional journals and how to make good OA choices.
1100 - 1115	Coffee break (and more talking)
1115 - 1145	Anika Mackenroth, Communications and Media Adviser at UiT. Anika will give us advices for the dissemination part in the grant proposals: how to craft the presentation and the dissemination man. Least but not last, she will tell us how to stand out by being relevant.
1145 - 1200	Summing up

The speakers:

Stuart M. Shieber, James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard, and the faculty director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication. His primary research field is computational linguistics, the study of human languages from the perspective of computer science. He was the founding director of the Center for Research on Computation and Society and is a co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Professor Shieber led Harvard’s efforts to institute open-access policies leading to the policies now in place at Harvard and emulated elsewhere.

Jan Erik Frantsvåg has a background in Economics, Computer Science and Banking. In 2011, he graduated from a master in Documentation Science. After a 13 years career in banking, Jan Erik worked another 13 years in various administrative positions at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Jan Erik works full-time on Open Access since 2006. He participates in projects, advocates Open Access and administrates the publication fund and the publication service Septentrio Academic Publishing from UiT. Since 2015, Jan Erik spends half of his working time researching Open Access.

Anika Mackenroth works as a communication advisor at the Faculty of Health Sciences, where, for the last four years, she has taught public-oriented research communication to PhD candidates. She heads an editorial team and otherwise works with the full breadth of communication-related tasks, from strategic communication planning, to marketing, media relations, social media and PR. She has experience in marketing, information and journalism.

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