Biosketch: Dr. Helena Francke

Helena is a senior lecturer at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science at the University of Borås and the University of Gothenburg (SSLIS). Her doctoral thesis, presented in spring 2008, is a study of document and information architecture in scholarly open access e-journals. Her research interests concern the credibility and authority of sources, information literacy, document studies, electronic publishing, knowledge organization, and scholarly communication. She has been teaching at SSLIS since 1999 and worked as a lecturer at the Department of Cultural Sciences, Lund University in spring 2008. Between 2000 and 2007, she was co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal Human IT: Journal for information technology studies as a human science.

Current research activities

Helena is a member of the project "Expertise, Authority and Control on the Internet (EXACT): A study of the formation of source credibility in Web 2.0 environments for learning" funded by the Swedish Research Council for 2008-2010. EXACT is a study of how the credibility of sources is negotiated in Swedish high school environments, with a particular focus on collaborative web technologies and genres. The project leader is Docent Olof Sundin, and other members of the project are Professor Mikael Alexandersson and Professor Louise Limberg. More information about EXACT is available at the project blog: http://projektexakt.wordpress.com

Recent 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>

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.

Coto, Rolando, Helena Francke & Saray Córdoba (2009). "Metadata Usage Tendencies in Latin American Electronic Journals." ELPUB2009. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Milan, Italy 10-12 June 2009. Susanna Mornati & Turid Hedlund, eds. Roma: Edizioni Nuova Cultura, 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). (Re)creations of Scholarly Journals: Document and Information Architecture in Open Access Journals. Diss. Borås: Valfrid. <http://bada.hb.se/handle/2320/1815>