Anna Jansson jumped in at the deep end. She has lived in Germany and Ireland, and for the last four years she has called San Francisco home. She started by taking freestanding courses at Karlstad University and today she is brand marketing manager at Google.
WHAT DID YOU STUDY AT KARLSTAD?
I studied at Karlstad University from 2002 to 2006. I took freestanding courses in English and media and communications for two years, before studying business administration and law.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a specialized search engine from Google that searches scholarly, but not necessarily peer-reviewed, literature on the Internet.
Links to full text in Google Scholar
Within the campus area links to full text will display if you use Google Scholar. Outside campus, you can link to Karlstad university Library Full Text by changing the Library Links setting in Google Scholar.
MazeMap
With the interactive map below you can search for all the premises of Kau. MazeMap is also available as an app!
MazeMap on Apple App Store
MazeMap on Google Play
In order to find both subscribed and open access articles more easily, you can download and use add-ons in your browser, so-called plugins.
LibKey Nomad
An add-on from Thrid Iron for Chrome, Edge, Safari och Firefox.
Bibliotek
» Studiestöd
» För dig med funktionsvariation
» Stödprogram och appar
Speech-to-text apps
SPEECHY
Real time dictation, converting voice to text. Also with translation options.
Language: Swedish, English etc.
Speechy Lite: free, full version costs
Text-to-speech apps
ClaroSpeak Svenska
ClaroSpeak is a reading and writing app with high-quality text-to-speech and other applications.
Use BrowZine to read the library electronic journals on the web or in your smartphone or tablet.
With BrowZine you can search among most of the library journals, collect your favourite journals in your own bookshelf, save and read articles.
With BrowZine, you can:
Browse and read journals: Browse by subject, review tables of contents, and download full articles.
Stay current with alerts and My Bookshelf: Create a personal bookshelf of titles to follow and receive new
In order to find open access articles more easily, you can search directly in Open Access Repositories and in search engines. Below you find some some examples.
BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (GENERAL)
Index and search engine from Bielefeld University Library.
CS
» Research
» Avslutade projekt
» Nationella projekt
The research project Correlation Attacks against Tor (CAT) investigates new attacks on the Tor anonymity network to make it more secure in the long term. The project is funded by the Swedish Internet Foundation (Internetstiftelsen) and runs from the autumn of 2018 to March 2019.
Tor, an anonymity network with around 8 million daily users, is used to browse the Internet anonymously, circumvent censorship, and disseminate information anonymously.
Bibliotek
» Studiestöd
» För dig med funktionsvariation
» Stödprogram och appar
Speech-to-text apps
DICTUS
Dictus is a speech to-text app that writes the text you are saying out loud. It also writes the punctuation if you say it out loud. You can dictate a text and then mail or copy it.
Languages: Swedish, English etc.
Price: It costs
Type and Speak
Make your phone say out loud whatever you type or say (use that microphone in the keyboard). If you click on the text, a menu opens where you can choose to copy or share the text.
Bibliotek
» Forskarstöd
» Synliggör din forskning
» Kommunicera
Create your research profile on KAU.SE - a simple way of presenting your work on the Internet.
ORCID - Open Researcher & Contributor ID. Register for an ORCID ID to avoid being mistaken for another researcher and to ensure that your publications are linked to you.
CTF
» Forskning
» Forskning
» Forskningsprojekt och profiler
» Pågående projekt
TRUEdig investigates how businesses that develop privacy-enhancing services also can increase users’ security and sense of empowerment.
“TRUEdig will be conducted in cooperation with Computer Science at Karlstad University, so two successful environments with extensive experience of involving external partners are working together,” says Per Kristensson, director of the Service Research Center (CTF) at Karlstad University.
Project partners include: Google, Genelle, Eric
Our main campus lies a few kilometres east of the city centre. The easiest way to get here is by bus or bike, but you can also take the train and, of course, go by car. We also have a campus in Arvika, where Ingesund School of Music is located.
Getting to Campus Karlstad
Karlstad university on Google Maps
By bus
Several buses stop at the University. Bus 1 is an express bus from the city centre and on weekdays, it departs every ten minutes for most of the day.
Bibliotek
» Lärarstöd
» Bibliotekets stöd till lärare
» Öppna lärresurser
The library indexes many open journals and books in its OneSearch discovery system, but open scientific material can be found in several different ways.
HHK
» Samverkan
» Samverkan vid HHK
» Alumn och partners
In order to ensure that our educations are well adapted to the needs of the labor market, we regularly follow up the alumni who have graduated from the School of Business and Economics.
During the years 2017-2021, 2088 people graduated from the Business School. Of these, 39 percent were men and 61 percent women.
Alerts
Alerts allow you to monitor new research automatically. Most databases and journals have an alert function and alerts can be delivered either in RSS feeds or as emails. If you choose to be alerted via email, you have to create a personal account for the database or on the journal’s homepage.
Bibliometrics referes to the quantitative methods used to examine the production and impact of scientific/academic publications. Bibliometrics is also used to illustrate the patterns of cooperation and scientific fields through analysis of Co-authorship and citations.
Musikhögskolan Ingesund
» Utbildning
» Att läsa på MHI
» Studentliv
SMISK (Sammanslutningen Musikhögskolan Ingesunds Studentsektion) operates as a chapter of Karlstad Student Union.
SMISK goal is to ensure high quality on the institutes programs and courses, to safekeep our student rights and to also arrange social events to our members.
The Union bord consist of students from the institution of MHI, that yearly is elected by the members at our annual meeting in the spring.
Dr Anna Pechurina (PhD in Sociology, University of Manchester) is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Department of Social and Psychological Studies at Karlstads University (KaU).
Dr Pechurina’s research expertise includes: study of identity, culture, material culture and homemaking, migration, mobility, international higher education.
Anna is currently researching the meaning of home, hosts/guests relationships as part of sharing economy, and gender identity, work, and
If you want to use other people's images, photos, illustrations, etc. for example in your essay, you can use images that are free or have a Creative Commons license.
Images you can use without permission
There are many collections of images under different licencing agreements that may be used without first obtaining the permission of the copyright holder. Licences allow for different types of usage.
Did you receive an email from an open access publisher who wonders if you want to publish with them? It may seem flattering, but you should be on your guard. Trustworthy publishers do not usually approach you like that, there are some rogue publishers that exploit the open access business model.
Most commonly the so called predatory publishers will charge for the publication while trying to maximize profits by keeping costs down and to publish large volumes.
Lärarutbildningen
» Forskning
» Konferenser
» TEPE 2023 Conference
Conference fee
Ordinary conference fee: 156 EURO (1750 SEK)
Those who are invited guests will be notified by e-mail.
The conference fee includes:
Welcome reception and lectures from 8 May after 14.00 until lunch on 10 May.
Coffee breaks with coffee are included every day, as well as lunch on May 9 and grab to go lunch on May 10.
Welcome evening with mingling buffet May 8.
Conference dinner at Scandic Winn 9 May.
Travel information
There are very few domestic flights to our destinatio
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» Om Datavetenskap
» Datavetenskap
» Aktuellt hos oss
It’s time for cities to address “privacy fatigue” — they’ll need design help (Medium)
Så farlig är apparnas datainsamling (P4 Värmland)
Appar samlar in onödig data – trots GDPR (Forskning och framsteg)
Apps have develop into safer soon after the EU’s Typical Knowledge Defense Regulation (The Media Hq)
Integritetsbrister i flera appar trots GDPR (TT-article which was published in Svenska Dagbladet + 31 regional and local newspapers like Göteborgsposten, Sydsvenskan and Uppsala nya tidnin
Om universitetet
» Om Karlstads universitet
» Akademiska högtider
Marcus Berg is originally from Umeå, where he also majored in Physics before enrolling as a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin, which at the time was the biggest university in the U.S. in terms of student numbers, and, not least, had two Nobel Prize laureates in the physics department.
How do I read e-books?
All our e-books can be read online without logging in or using special programs. If you would like to make notes, print or download you may also need to create a personal account with the vendor.
Outside campus students and employees need to login with their KauID to use the e-books.
E-books come in different formats, the most common are PDF or EPUB. Both formats can be open or copyrighted.
