Creating Knowledge 2021 took place as an online conference on June 3-4, 2021, hosted by UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Shortly afterwards, all delegates were sent an evaluation form so that we could learn from our mistakes and further improve all the good elements.

The Faculty of Health Sciences, OsloMet (Oslo Metropolitan University), first launched the joint course ‘Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice in Health Care’ in the fall semester 2020, with University Librarians as collaborative partners. The aim of the course is to ensure that OsloMet undergraduate students in the health sciences will be given the same platform for building their ability for evidence-based work. This best practice article is based on our presentation at the conference ‘Creating Knowledge 2021’. Here we shared some of our experiences of the collaboration with the faculty in the planning and implementation of this course, and the course design featuring flipped classroom structure and digital, student active teaching sessions. We will present examples of student course assignments, evaluation from students and faculty staff, and some course adjustments based on the feedback. This course gives both the library, the faculty and all our different health care students a common platform for teaching and learning evidence-based practice.

What if becoming information literate were an adventure? This question was posed in a keynote for the Creating Knowledge Conference 2021. It was answered in a thought piece by examining adventure-based ways to prepare students to be information literate adults through the principles and mechanisms that people find arousing and pleasurable and that are not classically a part of university pedagogy. How might these mechanisms be used to engage students more in the IL learning process and to encourage them to pursue being an information literate person as a lifelong endeavor? Adventure is presented as an experience that is situated, soft or hard, emotionally charged, challenging and rewarding. The risk aspect of adventure, often linked to danger, is also examined. Some of the dangers that exist in the management of information are explored (e.g., traps in sharing practices, seductive novelty and bypassing reason) as well as the personal costs of not managing information literacy well. How we nevertheless find danger alluring is explained in terms of arousal, as well as how we navigate zones of danger and delight with the help of protective frames. In order to arouse and sustain student engagement in becoming information literate adults, the value of interest is also introduced with the four-phase model of interest development. Suggestions for where to get started in translating the mechanisms of adventure, danger and interest into theoretically motivated and enjoyable teaching in order to support student growth as lifelong information literate adults are woven into the text for reflection.

With the pandemic bringing unprecedented circumstances for us all, at the University of Essex we moved our in-person information literacy (IL) and research support (RS) training online. We wanted to see the unexpected situation as an opportunity for improvement, which required innovation and creativity. In this paper, we will share the lessons we have learnt in our shift to online teaching. We begin by giving a brief background of the training we offered prior to the pandemic, highlighting how this training was rarely online, with a greater emphasis on in-person support. We then give an overview of the technologies we used to develop our virtual offer of IL and RS training in a range of different formats, including online tutorials using LibWizard, mixed-media webpages using LibGuides, YouTube videos, and running virtual workshop sessions using Zoom. We then discuss what has and hasn’t worked in our aim to increase the scope and interactivity of our IL and RS training, before considering the feedback we received from participants. Finally, we explore how we intend to broaden our offer further in the future based on the lessons learned and reflect on how this will influence future decision making. Ultimately, we aim to make the most of the positives we’ve seen and offer a mix of online and in-person IL and RS training, with consideration toward how we do this sustainably amongst the continued uncertainties around the ‘new normal’. Overall, we hope that our paper demonstrates how challenging situations can lead us to innovate in new and interesting ways.

Many university libraries hold large cultural heritage collections that are unknown to most students. The digitisation of these collections offers new ways of working with primary sources, and with it, an increased interest in archives and older collections, both in digital and physical form. This article discusses how archival material and other primary sources can be used in our information literacy classes, thus broadening the understanding of information literacy to include primary source literacy. I share two examples of how my colleagues and I have engaged students with primary sources and discuss the pedagogical challenges and opportunities. The article also addresses the disciplinary aspect of information literacy and what a humanities approach to teaching information literacy could incorporate. Drawing on own experiences and previous research, the article concludes that using primary sources in information literacy classes can enrich learning, engage students, and develop our teaching practices.

Virak er en konferanse som ligger mitt hjerte nært. Det var den første konferansen jeg reiste på som nyslått bibliotekar i 2008 da konferansen ble arrangert i Oslo og fortsatt het Fagreferentkonferansen. Det var her bibliotekfeltet virkelig åpnet seg for meg da jeg fikk se presentasjoner av bibliotekforskning og ble introdusert for kolleger med samme problemstillinger og utfordringer som jeg nettopp hadde begynt å undre meg over. Jeg følte at jeg var del av et større fellesskap og at dette fellesskapet var på vei mot en viktig faglig utvikling. I 2012 fikk jeg for første gang bli med å arrangere konferansen da den ble lagt til Universitetet i Agder i Kristiansand. Dette var også min første presentasjon på konferanse noen gang hvor jeg la frem eget arbeid med forskningsstøtte sterkt inspirert av arbeidet som munnet ut i PhD On Track. Konferansen førte til at jeg kom i snakk med disse akademiske bibliotekheltene som faktisk kom for å høre på mitt foredrag. Dette var en viktig og motiverende hendelse for meg som inspirerte meg til videre arbeid og etter hvert også publisering av egen forskning. Da konferansen skulle arrangeres i Oslo i 2017, satt jeg i programkomiteen og i planleggingskomiteen da konferansen skulle arrangeres i Stavanger i 2019. Dette ble første gangen på 10 år at jeg ikke kunne delta på selve konferansen fordi jeg byttet jobb. Det var med tungt hjerte at jeg måtte innse at jeg ikke fikk høre Beall snakke om røvertidsskrift, eller treffe gode bibliotekkolleger og diskutere faglige problemstillinger.

Predatory journals –a debate Introduction: The Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten revealed extensive problems with predatory publishing in an article that led to headlines in Norwegian news media in August 2018. Many were concerned about how the rise of open access journals had led to the growth of publishers with uncertain peer review processes, and worried about the consequences this may have for the public trust in science. A few weeks later, the Norwegian government joined the European Coalition S, which aims to mandate researchers who receive grants from the Research Council to publish in gold open access journals. Method: Qualitative content analysis Results: Researchers are deeply concerned about public trust in science. The debate displayed a clearly either pro and con opinions towards open access publishing, and researchers are especially concerned about the peer review process. Some actors believe there is a strong connection between open access and predatory journals. Other actors blame the international competition and pressure to publish as a cause for the rise of predatory publishing. Some actors applaud the radical transformation of scientific publishing and of the peer review process, while others fear this development. Discussion: We discuss how this may affect research support at university libraries. Coalition S faced great opposition among the majority of Norwegian researchers, while the librarians who participated in the debate were in unison positive. The challenges of predatory publishers may intensify in the years to come with the introduction of Coalition S and a radical reorganization of scientific publishing. Conclusion: The debate shows that there is a clear need for a "white list" of peer-reviewed and quality-assured publishing channels, where the Nordic list is a good start. Librarians have special expertise on metadata formats and knowledge about information literacy that can help researchers with quality assessment.

Virak er en konferanse som ligger mitt hjerte nært. Det var den første konferansen jeg reiste påsom nyslått bibliotekar i 2008 da konferansen ble arrangert i Oslo og fortsatt hetFagreferentkonferansen. Det var her bibliotekfeltet virkelig åpnet seg for meg da jeg fikk sepresentasjoner av bibliotekforskning og ble introdusert for kolleger med sammeproblemstillinger og utfordringer som jeg nettopp hadde begynt å undre meg over. Jeg følte atjeg var del av et større fellesskap og at dette fellesskapet var på vei mot en viktig fagligutvikling. I 2012 fikk jeg for første gang bli med å arrangere konferansen da den ble lagt tilUniversitetet i Agder i Kristiansand. Dette var også min første presentasjon på konferanse noengang hvor jeg la frem eget arbeid med forskningsstøtte sterkt inspirert av arbeidet som munnetut i PhD On Track. Konferansen førte til at jeg kom i snakk med disse akademiskebibliotekheltene som faktisk kom for å høre på mitt foredrag. Dette var en viktig og motiverendehendelse for meg som inspirerte meg til videre arbeid og etter hvert også publisering av egenforskning. Da konferansen skulle arrangeres i Oslo i 2017, satt jeg i programkomiteen og iplanleggingskomiteen da konferansen skulle arrangeres i Stavanger i 2019. Dette ble førstegangen på 10 år at jeg ikke kunne delta på selve konferansen fordi jeg byttet jobb. Det var medtungt hjerte at jeg måtte innse at jeg ikke fikk høre Beall snakke om røvertidsskrift, eller treffegode bibliotekkolleger og diskutere faglige problemstillinger.