On these pages you can find some information about me and a collection of some of the work I have done.
I am a Tenure Track Professor in Information Studies at Tampere University, Finland where I specialize in scholarly communication and open science. Since 2009 I have been researching the changing landscape towards openness in scholarly publishing by studying combinations of bibliometrics, web metrics, business models, science policy, and author behavior. I defended my PhD thesis on the subject of Open Access journal publishing in 2014 from Hanken School of Economics. Please see the publications section of my webpage if you are interested in the research I´ve been doing.
In addition to teaching, supervision, and research I see societal impact as very important part of my work, thus I frequently give public talks and am involved in various national and international groups. I have been involved in preparing reports for the European Commission, the European Research Council Executive Agency (ERCEA), Harvard Library Office of Scholarly Communication, the Ministry of Education and Culture in Finland, the Finnish Association of Scholarly Publishers, and the Nordic Publications Committee for Humanities and Social Science Periodicals (NOP-HS).
Regarding my current societal engagements I am the chair of the Finnish Association for Scholarly Publishing, a member of the steering group of the FinELib library consortium, a member of the advisory board for intellectual property appointed by the Ministry of Education and Culture. I am also a panel member of the Finnish Publication Forum , which is a rating and classification system supporting the assessment of research outputs on a large scale.
I am a member of the editorial board of Tampere University Press and Nordic Perspectives on Open Science. I am also on the advisory board of the blog Elephant in the Lab.
Highlights of some currently ongoing projects (August 2024)
- I have been a work package leader for the EU funded PALOMERA project. The project focuses on OA books and policies in the European Research Area. We are currently finalizing the final analysis report which will be made publicly available later in 2024.
- As part of a team of consultants I am currently working on a report commissioned by UKRI, in partnership with the Association of Learned Society Publishers (ALPSP), the British Academy, and the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) where the aim is to support book publishers in their transition to sustainable open access models, with a particular focus on learned society, subject association, and smaller specialist publishers. Please read more about this project here.