This thesis aims to explore how musicologists reason about publishing their articles in open-access journals. What is the challenge they face and what are the possibilities musicologists are concerned about? For the method I used open-ended and structured interviews based on four factors: trustworthiness, accessibility, reaching the readers and status of the publishing media. Musicologists are positive to the open-access concept and are willing to submit their papers to open-access journals. They think that the accessibility of the articles is going to increase when they publish them in open-access journals. Furthermore, in order to submit their articles to open-access journals, the musicologists expect that these journals have a peer-review system. Less than half of the musicologists want these journals to have high impact factor. The rest of them are not concerned about the status of the publishing media. Some of the musicologists thought they could reach more readers by means of the traditional printed journals, some thought they could do it better by open-access journals. / Uppsatsnivå: D

<p>Syftet med studien är att undersöka den mediala konstruktionen av äldre kvinnors moderskap i två tidskrifter, mama och Gravid. Fokus ligger på hur kvinnor över 35 år och experter uttalar sig om äldre kvinnors moderskap och vilka kvinnor som framställs som äldre mödrar. Den teoretiska plattformen består av en kombination av samhällsvetenskapliga perspektiv och feministiska forskares teorier om konstruktionen av kvinnlighet och moderskap. I analysen används uttalanden från experter och äldre mödrar ordnat efter de två mest framträdande teman. Några av slutsatserna är att äldre kvinnors moderskap konstrueras som något riskfyllt särskilt av medicinska experter i tidskriften Gravid. I tidskriften mama däremot konstrueras äldre kvinnors moderskap som en möjlighet. Detta görs dels genom att visa att kvinnans biologiska begränsningar kan övervinnas medels medicinska åtgärder, genom att frikopplas från kvinnans biologi och dels genom att visa att äldre kvinnors moderskap konstrueras på samma sätt som yngre kvinnors moderskap.</p>

Syftet med studien är att undersöka den mediala konstruktionen av äldre kvinnors moderskap i två tidskrifter, mama och Gravid. Fokus ligger på hur kvinnor över 35 år och experter uttalar sig om äldre kvinnors moderskap och vilka kvinnor som framställs som äldre mödrar. Den teoretiska plattformen består av en kombination av samhällsvetenskapliga perspektiv och feministiska forskares teorier om konstruktionen av kvinnlighet och moderskap. I analysen används uttalanden från experter och äldre mödrar ordnat efter de två mest framträdande teman. Några av slutsatserna är att äldre kvinnors moderskap konstrueras som något riskfyllt särskilt av medicinska experter i tidskriften Gravid. I tidskriften mama däremot konstrueras äldre kvinnors moderskap som en möjlighet. Detta görs dels genom att visa att kvinnans biologiska begränsningar kan övervinnas medels medicinska åtgärder, genom att frikopplas från kvinnans biologi och dels genom att visa att äldre kvinnors moderskap konstrueras på samma sätt som yngre kvinnors moderskap.

Domestic weekly magazines in Sweden are characterized by an emphasis on practical editorial material such as cooking recipes and knitting patterns, and also contain a comparatively large share of reader material. This makes it possible to study the readers through texts produced by themselves. The aim of this study of columns of readers' tips on domestic work is to analyze how readers embody a specific femininity centered around the woman as responsible for the home, in the sense of everyday maintenance as well as aesthetic development. The author defines this femininity as "home maker". The theoretical framework for the analysis is the sociological theory of Pierre Bourdieu, and Jonathan Potter's and Margaret Wetherell's model of interpretive repertoire is also used where modality is discussed. The "home maker" femininity is treated as a form of cultural capital which assumes symbolic status within the field of conventional femininity. The texts are seen as reproducing practices and systems of categorization and are also analyzed to ascertain to which level the writers feel confident to represent themselves as possessors of "home making" capital.   The author concludes that the "home making" described in the texts contains elements unique to working class femininity. This includes specifically a relationship to the home as "one's own" and an arena for self-expression, but traditional ideals such as economizing, orderliness and cleanliness, which can be traced to the culture of the pre-industrial agrarian proletariat, are also prominent.

Syftet i denna C-uppsats är att undersöka hur tidningen Veckorevyn vill att kvinnor ska korrigera sig själva och hur det budskapet förmedlats och förändrats sedan 1937 till och med 2017. Veckorevyns självhjälpstexter studeras inom kategorierna skönhet, relationer, fysisk hälsa och själslig hälsa och då studeras vilka tips tidningen har för att läsaren ska bli den bästa versionen av sig själv. Frågeställningarna för uppsatsen är vilka proportioner läsarens problem ges över tid och hur det önskvärda resultatet av självhjälpen framställs, hur tilltalet till läsaren har förändrats samt för vem läsaren ska förbättra sig. Det är en kvantitativ undersökning och artiklar har kodats utifrån ett kodschema. Utifrån John B. Thompsons teori om identitetsbildning studeras vilka former av material för identitetsbildning tidningen producerar över tid. Efter undersökningen visade det sig att av de undersökta texterna i studien har självhjälpstexter ökat och att det mellan tidsperioden 1937 till 2017 har skrivits flest texter inom kategorin skönhet. Det har skrivits mest om vardagsproblem och minst om livsproblem. Det önskvärda resultatet som förekommit flest gånger är att läsaren ska känna sig lycklig och nöjd. Tilltalet i Veckorevyn till läsare har oftast varit råd och uppmaningar. Vår undersökning visar att självhjälpsartiklarna i Veckorevyn har som mål att läsaren ska förbättra sig för sin egen skull.

Studien visar att natur, friluftsliv och människor på omslaget av Utemagasinet konstituerats över tid på olika vis. En markant tilltagande poseringstendens framställer sedan millenniumskiftet individen allt oftare ensam centralt i bild, tillgängligt leende, aptitligt ung och vacker, viril och fertil, och vit. Samtidigt som helbilder alltmer känns som halvbilder, och halvbilder som närbilder. En utveckling påverkad av hur textpuffar ramar in människor och ansikten.      De sista 5 åren har även naturen drastiskt försvunnit eller kraftfullt reducerats från nästan hälften av omslagen. Skärpedjupet sätter fokus på individen, den metrosexuella och leende sfinxen, och lösgör henne därmed ur landskapet genom att bakgrunden suddas ut. På så vis avlägsnas friluftsmänniskan allt mer naturen och friluftslivet friställs sitt ursprung. Liksom individen som självexploaterande prestationssubjekt tycks utlämnad åt en situativ senmodern tillvaro präglad av en eroderande kontext.           Utvecklingen indikerar starkt att Utemagasinet väljer en känslosfär på omslagen som mer påminner om reklambilder för exempelvis bindor, deodoranter och hårschampon. Något som ger oss skäl att begrunda vart naturen som sakralt eller sekulärt kontemplativt betydelsespelrum tar vägen och ifall förpackningen (omslagen) i någon mening är på väg att tillintetgöra sina egna rötter (naturen).

This user study was carried out at the library at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg in the spring of 1999. Chalmers wanted to investigate how much their employees use electronic journals. To facilitate decision-making and be cost effective, the library needed to know about their customers&apos; opinions. The main purpose was to investigate the usage of electronic journals, how the library&apos;s choice of these journals affects the frequency of use and what the attitudes towards them are. A questionnaire was sent out to 2 400 employees; 477 replies were received. The result shows that 55% of the respondents use electronic journals at least once a month. The major advantages of electronic journals are, according to the study, the easy access and the option to work from one&apos;s own desk. The major disadvantage is the difficulty in scanning them. Two thirds of the respondents are willing to let go of the print journal at the library in favour of the electronic one, but only one fifth are willing to give up their departmental subscriptions. For a majority, conditions such as user friendliness and archiving must be fulfilled before electronic journals can be fully accepted. / Uppsatsnivå: D

The purpose of this master’s thesis is to gain insights into students’ usage and attitudes towards electronic articles and electronic books and how students feel about a change from print collections to digital collections at Växjö University Library. The main questions are: How do different groups of students use the library collections of electronic articles and electronic books? What factors influence the usage of the library collections of electronic articles and electronic books among students? What are the students’ experiences of reading electronic books in comparison with reading print books? What would different groups of students think if the literature they need for their studies were purchased in electronic form instead of print? To answer the questions a user study was carried out at Växjö university library. A web survey was sent to students that had a library card and an email address registered at the library. The result shows that a majority of the students had used the electronic articles but only a third had used the electronic books. The most important factor for users of electronic articles and electronic books was the ability to access them at home and around the clock. Many respondents complained about the difficulty of reading text on a computer screen, and 64 percent preferred to read print books, but 62,7 percent could accept to use electronic books instead of print books and 50,9 percent liked the idea of electronic textbooks instead of print textbooks at the library.

The aim of this Master’s thesis is to investigate articles in Swedish library journals on children’s reading from gender and sex perspectives. Gender theory as it has been developed by Yvonne Hirdman and Robert W. Connell is used to analyze the articles. The thesis includes a chapter on previous research in the fields of gender in relation to children, reading and the library. The analysis of the articles reveals that the differences between girls and boys and their reading are both a product of notions of sex and gender. In the articles boys are described as avoiding reading and/or certain books because they associate it with girls and “girly” things are seen as forbidden for them. Other articles, that describe the differences as a product of sex, argue that girls and boys like reading different types of books and that these differences should be encouraged because otherwise children may loose interest in reading. / Uppsatsnivå: D

For hundreds of years the scientific journals has been the foremost tool for scholarly communication. Publishing of research results is very important for scientists. Often the research is bound to the university and the research libraries supplies the scientist with all journals needed. The last decades the libraries have seen the costs for subscriptions to journals explode. Commercial publishers often lie behind the mostly unmotivated escalation in price. The purpose of the study has been to analyse which strategies a Swedish research library has to meet this changes in journal costs and electronic development, and also to analyse the development of alternative scientific publishing. We tried to find the answer to these four questions:If you look at scientific journals, what consequences has the last years of economic and electronic development done to the strategies the library has got for collection management?How does the library work with collection management of scientific publications?How do the library weigh different publications and forms of publications (monographs, e-journals and paper journals) against each other?Do the library develop new forms for scientific publishing?The case study shows that the library has developed several different strategies to meet the changes within the formal scientific communication. The libraries have been heavily affected due to the rising expenses. The consequences has been cancellation of subscriptions and lowered grants for monographs. To meet the changes the university has, the last years, developed an own model for publishing scientific publications produced by the researchers at the university. Our conclusion is that the lowered economic resources due to rising subscription fees affects the library negatively and that many of the strategies the library has developed to meet the changes within scientific publishing aims to set free resources or in many cases set free means to finance the journal collection. We believe that the university is on the right track when developing an own model for publication. We also believe that co-operation with other universities have to increase. The communication inside the university will have to improve to raise the knowledge for the role of the library in the university of the future. A possible future role that would strengthen the library&apos;s position within the university is to be responsible for the university&apos;s scientific publication. To accomplish this more co-operation and communication is needed between library and university. / Uppsatsnivå: D