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Biography

Urban Andersson has 30 years of experience from working with IT and system development within the academic library world.

Since 2011 he has been working as IT Librarian and developer at Chalmers University of Technology. He is a developer and technical coordinator of Chalmers Research CRIS, and other research related services. Current focus is primarily on scholarly publishing and research data management, including development of RDM related services at Chalmers E-Commons, but also on a national level.

Between 1994 and 2007 he worked as System Librarian and IT developer at the University College of Borås, and also held a position as technical coordinator for the Swedish Voyager Library Consortium (GSLG), with a focus on system administration, programming and coordination of several development projects within the consortium, and was also the technical representative for Sweden in the international Voyager user groups, as well as other national and international initiatives. Other areas of work during this period included web development, database management, search systems, institutional repository, web services, link server and other systems and general library related IT issues.
Between 2007 and 2011 he worked as IT Librarian at the University of Gothenburg, with a primary focus on the institutional repository (DSpace) and the publication database.

Activities

Employment (5)

Chalmers University of Technology: Gothenburg, SE

2022-01 to present | IT coordinator (E-Commons, Chalmers Data Office (CDO))
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Chalmers University of Technology: Gothenburg, SE

2011-02-10 to present | IT Librarian & developer (CLS)
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University of Gothenburg: Gothenburg, SE

2007 to 2011 | IT Librarian & developer (University Library)
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University of Borås: Borås, SE

1994 to 2007 | System Librarian (Library)
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Göteborgs tingsrätt: Göteborg, SE

1993 to 1994 | Librarian (Library)
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Works (14)

Machine actionable DMPs in practice

Open Repositories 2024 Gothenburg, Sweden
2024-06-15 | Conference poster
Contributors: Urban Andersson; Maria Kinger; Jeremy Azzopardi
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Urban Andersson

Open data flagship pilot 2022 : slutrapport

2023 | Report
Contributors: Urban Andersson; Lina Andrén; Jeremy Azzopardi; Olof Olsson
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Urban Andersson

Att växa med utvecklingen – systembibliotekariens roller

När nyfikenhet, driv och kreativitet möts : Bibliotekariens roll som producent och utvecklare
2020 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 978-91-7000-432-2
Contributors: Urban Andersson; Jessica Lindholm
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Urban Andersson

Research.chalmers.se : building the next generation research information infrastructure at Chalmers University of Technology

The Eleventh International Conference on Open Repositories, OR2016 Dublin, Ireland
2016 | Conference poster
Contributors: Urban Andersson; Malene Jensen; Jessica Lindholm; Kristin Olofsson; Magnus Axelsson
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Erfarenheter av medlemskap och implementering av ORCID på Chalmers

Chalmers University of Technology
2014 | Report
Contributors: Urban Andersson; Jonas Gilbert; Stina Johansson; Martina Ramstedt
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ORCiD @ Chalmers: Membership and implementation

Open Repositories 2014, June 9-13, Helsinki, Finland
2014 | Conference poster
Contributors: Urban Andersson; Susanne Hansson; Martina Ramstedt
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Urban Andersson

ORCID technical integration at Chalmers

ORCID Outreach Meeting, May 21-22, 2014 Chicago
2014 | Conference abstract
Contributors: Urban Andersson
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Urban Andersson

ORCIDs in the Wild: Implementing ORCIDs into Research Support and Repository Systems

Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland
2014 | Conference paper
Contributors: Shreeves, Sarah L.; Witt, Michael C.; Luyten, Bram; Andersson, Urban
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Författaridentifikatorer och publiceringsdatabaser – scenarier och utvecklingsmöjligheter

2013 | Report
Contributors: Urban Andersson; Jonas Gilbert; Tomas Johansson; Jessica Lindholm; Erik Stattin; Anders Söderbäck; Daniel Wadskog; Bodil Gustavsson
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Publication Profiles: Presenting Research in a New Way

EMTACL12 (Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries), Trondheim, Norway
2012 | Conference abstract
Contributors: Urban Andersson; Stina Johansson
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Urban Andersson

Using Repository Data To Attract the Researchers’ Attention and To Promote Research Outcomes – Publication Profiles@Chalmers

33rd Annual IATUL Conference, Singapore
2012 | Conference poster
Contributors: Urban Andersson; Jonas Gilbert
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Projektet Forskningsdata inom humaniora och konstnärliga vetenskaper – open access? : slutrapport

2011 | Report
Contributors: Urban Andersson; Iris Alfredsson; Sofia Arvidsson; Jörgen Eriksson; Birger Jerlehag; David Lawrence; Jessica Lindholm
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Download data versus traditional impact metrics : measuring impact in a sample of biomedical doctoral dissertations

World Library and Information Congress : 76th IFLA General Conference and Assembly : Meeting: 155. Science and Technology Libraries (10-15 August 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden)
2010-07-08 | Conference paper
Contributors: Urban Andersson; Karin Henning; Jonas Gilbert
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Urban Andersson

GSLG – Ett svenskt bibliotekskonsortium

BBL : Biblioteksbladet
2008 | Magazine article
Contributors: Elisabet Andersson; Urban Andersson; Bertil Jansson; Eva Lilja
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