Urban Andersson

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.