Publications

A complete list of works (242 titles) is available here: Complete list of works

A selected list of books and edited anthologies (8) and scientific articles (51):

Books, edited anthologies (8):

Vaagan, R. (Ed) (2008). New Media, Mediated Communication and Globalization. Intercultural Communication Studies, XVII (3). (ISSN 1057-7769)

Vaagan, R. (2005). Bibliotekene og det flerkulturelle Norge. En delrapport i Bibliotekutredningen 2006. ABM-skrift nr. 22. Oslo: ABM-utvikling. ISSN 1503-5972; ISBN 82-8105-0276. (Libraries and multicultural Norway. (104pp.) Report commissioned by Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority PDF

Vaagan, R. (red) (2003). Det multikulturelle bibliotek - visjon og virkelighet. HiO-rapport 2003 nr. 31. (184s.) (The Multicultural Library - Vision and Reality. HiO report 2003 nr. 31. (184pp.). ISSN 0807-1039; ISBN 82-579-4293-6.

Vaagan, R. (Ed) (2002). The Ethics of Librarianship: An International Survey. Munich: IFLA/Walter De Gruyter Inc (344 pp). ISBN 3598218311 (3-598-21831-1)

Vaagan, R. (2000). Boris Pilnjak. Fortellinger i utvalg 1915-1929 (Boris Pilnjak. Selected stories 1915-1929) 9 short stories translated from Russian, with introductory article; 142pp. (unpubl. manuscript)

Vaagan, R. (1999, 2000). Iskusstvo videt' prekrasnoe. The Literary Aesthetics of Aleksandr Voronskij 1921-1928 (Dr.philos.dissertation. Acta Humaniora, 53, Faculty of Arts, University of Oslo 1999). Revised version: Unipub forlag, Oslo 2000. (463pp.) ISSN 0806-3222; ISBN 82-7477-025-0

Vaagan, R. (1996). Pojmat' zhivoe. Antropomorfismer i Boris Pasternaks Doktor Zhivago, Meddelelser,76, Slavisk-baltisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo, Oslo 1996 (99pp.) ISSN 0803-2505; ISBN 82-90250-71-1 PDF

Vaagan, R. (1982). The USSR and Egypt. Soviet-Egyptian Relations 1967-1976, NUPI report No.68, April 1982, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo 1982 (155pp.)

Scientific articles and book chapters (51)

2010

"TV news and 'white' voices: Dagsrevyen coverage of the Gaza War". (Co-authored with Frøydis Johannessen and Marie Walsøe) (forthcoming)

"Cyber rhetoric, TV coverage and geopolitics: framing the Georgian-Russian War, August 2008" (forthcoming)

2009

"Transcultural exchange and communication" (45pp). Preface and introduction to Robert St.Clair & Wei Song. (2009). The Many Layers of Culture within Each City: A Theory of Cultural Geography. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press (ISBN 978-0-7734-4646-5)

"Presidential Web sites and the Georgian-Russian War, 8-16 August 2008". First Monday, 14 (9), 7 September 2009 (ISSN 1396-0466) OA: http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2621/2280

"Kina - harmoni bak muren?". In Eide, E. & Simonsen, A.H. (Eds.) Dekke verden! Lærebok i utenriksjournalistikk. Kristiansand: IJ-forlaget (ISBN 978-82-7147-309-9),
pp.209-225

2008

"Media, market, state and politics in Norway". Informacijos mokslai (Information Science) 47 (4), pp. 22-36 (ISSN 1392-1487) PDF

"Preparing for terrorism: Exercise Oslo 2006 and crisis communication". Intercultural Communication Studies, XVII (1), pp. 170-188 (ISSN 1057-7769) PDF

"New Media and Globalization: Norway and China". In R.Vaagan (Ed.) (2008). New Media, Mediated Communication and Globalization. Intercultural Communication Studies, XVII (3), pp. 1-12 (ISSN 1057-7769)

"The Development of Digital Television in China and Norway" (Co-authored with Dr. Wangyu). In R.Vaagan (Ed.) (2008). New Media, Mediated Communication and Globalization. Intercultural Communication Studies, XVII (3), pp. 169-184 (ISSN 1057-7769)

2007

"Open Access scientific, electronic publishing and Bakhtinian dialogism". Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 4(2), pp. 85-99 (ISSN 1744-6716 online, 1744-6708 print) PDF and OA at: http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/page-1715

"Digital television in China and Norway" (Co-authored with Dr. Wangyu). Collections. 2007 China Communication Forum. Beijing: National Center for Radio and Television Studies at The Communication University of China, pp.101-119

"Ownership and minorities in Norwegian media: from monophony to polyphony". Intercultural Communication Studies, XVI (2), pp. 237-252 ( ISSN 1057-7769) PDF

"Open standards in scientific communication and publishing". Nordicom Review, 2007, 28 (1), pp. 111-122 (ISSN 0349-6244) PDF and OA at: http://www.nordicom.gu.se/? portal=mr&main=info_publ2.php&ex=247&me=2

2006

"Open Access and Bakhtinian dialogism". In Martens, B & Dobreva, M. (2006). Digital Spectrum: Integrating Technology and Culture. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Bansko, Bulgaria 14-16 June 2006, pp.165-174 (ISBN 978-954-16-0040-5)

"Websites and internationalization. A survey of Norwegian academic, research and special libraries" (Co-authored with Dr. Maria-Carme Torras) Libri , 56 (1), March 2006, pp. 28-37 (ISSN 0024-2667) PDF

"Konfidencial'nost' informacionnoj dejatel'nosti, dostovernost', intellektual'naja sobstvennost' i svoboda dostupa: chetyre kljuchevykh voprosa dlja bibliotechno- informacionnoj dejatel'nosti v XXI veke". In Yu. R. Melent'ieva, I.A. Trushina & V.R.Firsov (Eds.) (2006). Sovremennye problemy bibliotechnoj i informacionnoj etiki. St. Peterburg: Izdatel'stvo Rossijskaja nacional'naja biblioteka, pp.106-115 (ISBN 5-8192-0256-2) PDF

2005

"The digital divide and multiculturalism".In Susanne van Ijsel Smits-Hupperts, Aimee Kersten, Willem Lamberix, Jelke Nijboer (red.) (2005). Hubregtse in herdruk. Over romatische ironie, bibliofilie, informatieongelijkheid en Sjaak Hubregtse. Amsterdam: Willem Lamberix Projectuitgeverij/Instituut voor Media en Informatie Management, pp.159-164 (ISBN 90-809775-1-9)

"The value of professional arts and culture performances in Norwegian primary schools. A study of Den kulturelle skolesekk ". Childhoods 2005, Oslo 29.6-3.7.05. Program and abstracts, pp. 379-380 (ISBN 82-569-6352-2)

"Multicultural children, youth and Norwegian media ". (Co-authored with Margareth Sandvik and Anne Fogt). Childhoods 2005, Oslo 29.6-3.7.05. Program and abstracts, pp. 100-101 (ISBN82-569-6352-2)

"Trends in Norwegian scholarly publishing". In Dobreva, M. & Engelen, J. (Eds.) (2005). From Author to Reader. Challenges for the Digital Content Chain. Proceedings of the 2005 ELPUB Conference. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 8-10 June 2005. Peeters Publishing, Leuven, pp.83-89 (ISBN 90-429-1645-1) PDF

"The LIS infoethical survival kit", Scandinavian Public Library Quarterly, 38 (1), 2005, pp. 20-23 (ISSN 00365602)

"Intellectual property rights vs. public access rights. Ethical aspects of the DeCSS decryption program" (Co-authored with Dr.Wallace Koehler). Information Research - an international electronic journal, 10 (3), 2004/2005 (ISSN 1368-1613). OA at: http://informationr.net/ir/10-3/paper230.html

"Professional values in Norwegian librarianship" (with Sigrid Holm), pp.140-144 in: Linda Ashcroft (Ed.) (2005). Coping with continual change - change management in SLIS. Proceedings of the European Association for Library and Information Education and Research (EUCLID) and the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Joint Conference, Potsdam, Germany, 31 July - 1 August 2003. Emerald Group: Bradford 2005 (ISBN 1-84544-156-7). (See also 2004 below)

2004

"Climbing the knowledge pyramid: R&D programs at Oslo University College". In Marianne Hummelshoj (Ed.) (2004). Knowledge and Change. Proceedings, XII Nordic Conference on Information and Documentation, Aalborg. Aalborg: Royal School of Library and Information Science, pp. 227-238 (ISSN 0902-2848; ISBN 87-88524-76-0). Also published as Biblioteksarbejde, skriftserie nr. 14, 2004. (ISSN 0106-2514).

"Developing the multicultural school library: Vahl primary school, Oslo". (Co-authored with Gry Enger). New Library World, 105, (1204/1205), 2004, pp. 337-344 (ISSN 0307-4803) PDF

"Professional values in Norwegian librarianship" (Co-authored with Sigrid Holm), New Library World, 105 (1200/1201), 2004, pp. 213-217 (ISSN 0307-4803) PDF

2003

"The multicultural library - quo vadis?", Scandinavian Public Library Quarterly, 36 (4), 2003, pp. 18-19 (ISSN 00365602 )

"Intellectual freedom in libraries: the role of ethics". Proceedings, Intellectual Freedom and Modern Libraries, International conference, Belgrade, 24-28.9.03.

"Ethics of librarianship in the Nordic countries". Presentation at joint FAIFE/LTR workshop on ethics, IFLA General Conference, Berlin 7 August 2003

"Initiatives of the international library community to promote free access to information and freedom of expression", pp.1212-1215, and "Librarians and terrorism: the ethical principles of information access ", pp.1219-1223, both in Vol.3, Conference Proceedings, Libraries and Associations in the Transient World: New Technologies and New Forms of Cooperation, 10th Jubilee International Conference Crimea 2003 (2nd International Conference on Government Information and Democracy/2nd IFLA GIOPS Eastern Europe Seminar on Government Information for the People) Sudak, Crimea , 9-13.6.03

"LIS education - repackaging infopreneurs or promoting value-based skills?", New Library World, 104 (4/5 - 1187/1188) 2003, pp. 156-163 (ISSN 0307-4803)

"Multiculturalism or integration? European public libraries and ethnic, linguistic and cultural minorities", pp.289-296, Proceedings, 11th International BOBCATSSS Symposium on Library and Information Science, Torun, Poland, 3-5 February 2003. ISBN 9080607320. (Also pp.129-141, Proceedings, UPAE - United Projects Access Economy: Information Policy for Minorities, First Annual Conference Proceedings, , Torun 3-5 February 2003 (Funded by the European Social Fund of the European Commission under the Community Initiative EQUAL) PDF

2002

"How to Respond when Intellectual Freedoms are at Stake". In Libraries, Conflicts & the Internet, IFLA/FAIFE World Report Series vol.II: IFLA/ FAIFE Summary Report 2002, pp. 53-58

"Norwegian librarianship, ethics and ABM". In R.Vaagan (Ed.) The Ethics of Librarianship: An International Survey, IFLA/K.G.Saur Series No.101, Munich 2002, pp.192-208

2001

"Norwegian Librarian Ethics Revisited: The Case for Reconsideration" Proceedings, 11th Nordic Conference on Information and Documentation, Reykjavik, Iceland, 30 May-1 June 2001, Reykjavik 2001 PDF

"Trenger vi nasjonale bibliotekaretiske retningslinjer?" DF-revy, 2, March 2001, pp. 59-61

"Research Libraries: New Ethical Challenges and Possibilities in A Digital Environment", pp.369-375 in: Proceedings, 9th International BOBCATSSS Symposium on Library and Information Science, Vilnius, Lithuania, January 29-31, 2001 PDF

"The Enigma of the Moon in Povest' nepogashennoj luny", Russian Literature, Vol. L-II, 15 August 2001, pp.185-196 (ISSN 0304-3479) PDF

"Freedom of Expression: The Case of Pushkin" (G.Kjetsaa et al. (Eds.), Translating Culture. Essays in Honour of Erik Egeberg, Solum forlag, Oslo 2001, pp. 251-262 PDF

2000

Russian as a Literary Language in 4 former Soviet republics (29pp.) (in co-operation with The Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen)

"Svalbard, Spitsbergen or Grumant? The naming and politics of Norway's northernmost territory" (13pp; unpubl.)

"Communication across boundaries: two love poems by Robert Burns and Fyodor Tyuchev" (forthcoming 2009 in Russian Journal of Communication, ISSN 1940-9419 (print) ISSN 1940-9427 (online)

"Boris Pilnjak and Spitsbergen", (10pp.) Paper at XV Nordic Slavist Congress, Tromsø 10-16 August 2000. (Abstract published in congress programme, Institute of Russian Studies, University of Tromsoe, Tromsoe 2000, pp. 62-63.

1999

"The Story of the Unextinguished Moon by Boris Pil'njak. Some Reflections on Context and Subtext". Trial lecture (chosen topic) in partial fulfillment for the degree doctor philosophiae, University of Oslo, 18 June 1999 (20pp.) (unpubl.)

"The Role of the Poet in Pushkin". Trial lecture (appointed topic) in partial fulfillment for the degree doctor philosophiae, University of Oslo, 18. June 1999 (15pp.) (unpubl.)

1998

"Blizost' i otdalennost'. Voronskij i Gor'kij", (5pp.) (Paper at the 28th international Gor'kij conference (Maksim Gor'kij na poroge XXI stoletija. XXVIII Gor'kovskie chtenija), Nizhnij Novgorod 27-28 March 1998 PDF

1997

"PS: What is to be done with the novel? Voronskij, Zamjatin and My", Scando-Slavica, Vol.43, Munksgaard, Copenhagen 1997, pp. 39-51 (ISSN 0080-6765) PDF

"Aleksandr K.Voronskij: His Literary Portraits 1921-28". (6pp.) (Paper at XIV Nordic Slavist Congress, Helsinki 17-23 August 1997. Abstract published in congress programme, Helsinki 1997)

1993

"Fjodor Tjuttsjevs poetikk: Denisieva-syklusen og diktet "Poslednjaja ljubov' (1853)", (8pp, unpubl.)

1988

"Hvor går Irak?" ("Whither Irak?") (10pp.). In Irakere, H.Skogseid (Ed.), The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration, Oslo 1988 PDF

1982

"Egypt uten Sadat" ("Egypt without Sadat"), in: Hvor hender det?, 9, 19 October 1981, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo 1982

1981

"Egyptisk nasjonalisme ca. 1875-1882". In Øyvind Østerud (red.), Nasjonalisme og nasjonalitet, Working papers No.1, University of Oslo, Institute of Political Science, Chair in Conflict and Peace Research, Oslo 1981, pp. 49-56 PDF