Elina Late
About me
I work as a University Instructor in Information Studies and hold the title of Docent of Information Studies at Tampere University.
Responsibilities
I teach the bachelor level course Knowledge Organization and Information Architecture (VIM.IT.210) and the master's-level course Research Methods in Information Studies (IT.250). In addition, I serve as an academic tutor for students.
I also work as the coordinator of Taru, the Research Centre for Communication Sciences at Tampere University: https://research.tuni.fi/viestintatieteiden-tutkimuskeskus/
Fields of expertise
My research focuses on researchers’ information seeking and information interaction, scholarly communication, and open science.
Research fields
Information studies
Selected publications
Latest publications
From policy to practice: Challenges and expertise needs in library research data management services
Late, E. & Kumpulainen, S., 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Librarianship and Information Science.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Adaptive Progressive Fine-Tuning of VLMs for Long-Tailed Multimodal Retrieval
Alijani, F., Late, E. & Kumpulainen, S., 2025, 2025 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2025. IEEE, p. 50-58Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
Collaborative image data interaction in social science and humanities research tasks
Late, E., Matres, I., Sendra Toset, A. & Kumpulainen, S., 29 Apr 2025, CHIIR '25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval. New York, NY, USA: ACM, p. 129 - 139 (CHIIR '25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
Exploring the sources of ideation among visual artists
Ruotsalainen, H., Late, E. & Kumpulainen, S., Dec 2025, In: Journal of Documentation. 81, 7, p. 502-519 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
From data lifecycle to research activity model: research data management in data-intensive social sciences and humanities research
Sendra Toset, A., Late, E. & Kumpulainen, S., 29 May 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Aslib Journal of Information Management.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
HistoryCLIP: Adaptive Multi-modal Retrieval of Imbalanced Long-Tailed Archival Data
Alijani, F., Late, E. & Kumpulainen, S., 15 Sept 2025, Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries: 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2025, Tampere, Finland, September 23–26, 2025, Proceedings. Springer, p. 245-262 ( Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; vol. 16097).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication Across Research Fields, Career Stages and Research Types
Pölönen, J., Late, E., Muhonen, R., Auranen, O. & Pietilä, M., 19 May 2025, p. 156. 158 p.Research output: Other conference contribution › Abstract › Scientific
Tieteellinen julkaiseminen - mitä, miksi, miten?
Late, E., Aug 2025, Informaatiosta tiedon vuoksi: Informaatiotutkimuksen ilmiöitä ja uomia. Kumpulainen, S. & Sihvonen, M. (eds.). Vastapaino, p. 185-210Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Beyond borders: Examining the role of national learned societies in the social sciences and humanities
Late, E., Guns, R., Pölönen, J., Stojanovski, J., Urbanc, M. & Ochsner, M., Jul 2024, In: Learned Publishing. 37, 3, e1609.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Comparing publication profiles of Finnish universities, state research institutes and universities of applied sciences
Pölönen, J., Auranen, O. & Late, E., 2024, 28th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI2024). Zenodo, 10 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Professional