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Mikael Laakso

Associate Professor, informaatiotutkimus
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences | Communication Sciences | Information Studies
Tampere University
mikael.laakso [at] tuni.fi (mikael[dot]laakso[at]tuni[dot]fi)
+358505278426
+358 50 9100864
City Centre Campus
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3951-7990
http://mikaellaakso.com

About me

I am an Associate Professor (tenure track) 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.

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