Helena Francke
Librarian
Publishing and Bibliometric Services team, Digital ServicesAbout Helena Francke
I work as an academic librarian with a shared position at the Social Sciences Libraries and Digital services.
At the Social Sciences Libraries my office is at the School of Business, Economics and Law. I work primarily with researcher support for faculty and doctoral students at the School of Business, Economics and Law and at the Faculties of Social Sciences and Education. I coordinate Social Sciences Libraries' group for researcher support services. In that capacity, I organize education for doctoral students and advice doctoral students and faculty on information seeking and publishing strategies.
At the Digital services unit I work in the team for Publishing and Bibliometric Services, primarily with strategic and practical academic publishing issues, often with a focus on open access.
Before I joined the university library, I worked as an associate professor in Library and Information Science at the University of Borås. I still have an affiliation with the department. I have twentyfive years of experience in teaching and research in higher education, mainly in the areas of scholarly publishing and information literacy. For short periods of time, I have held positions as guest lecturer/researcher at Lund University (Sweden), UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Queensland University of Technology (Australia) and Makerere University (Uganda).
More information about my research can be found at the University of Borås and a list of my publications in Swepub.