Now in its 20th year, the Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing attracts librarians, research administrators and researchers from the Nordic countries and beyond. The Munin Conference offers an opportunity for publishers and other organizations to raise their profile among this specialist audience. Sponsor contributions will be used to cover conference fees for waiver participants and the costs of the conference reception.
This year's sponsors
Springer Nature
Springer Nature is one of the leading publishers of research in the world. We publish the largest number of journals and books and are a pioneer in open research. Through our leading brands, trusted for more than 180 years, we provide technology-enabled products, platforms and services that help researchers to uncover new ideas and share their discoveries, health professionals to stay at the forefront of medical science, and educators to advance learning. We are proud to be part of progress, working together with the communities we serve to share knowledge and bring greater understanding to the world. For more information, please visit about.springernature.com and follow us on X and Bluesky.
Frontiers
Frontiers is one of the world’s largest and most impactful research publishers, dedicated to making peer-reviewed, quality-certified science openly accessible. With over three million published authors across 222 community-led journals covering approximately 1,700 academic disciplines, we provide researchers with a trusted, cutting-edge, AI-powered open science platform to rigorously review their findings and maximize the dissemination of their discoveries.
As an open access pioneer, we actively drive the global transition to open science, working with researchers, universities, educators, policymakers and businesses. For more information, please visit us at https://www.frontiersin.org.
Elsevier
Elsevier is a global leader in information and decision support, advancing science and healthcare through innovative, evidence-based content and AI technologies. With over 140 years of experience, we support researchers, healthcare professionals, and educators worldwide. Elsevier’s portfolio includes 3,000 scientific journals and key reference titles like The Lancet and Gray’s Anatomy. We work with the Elsevier Foundation to promote inclusion in science and healthcare globally. As part of RELX, we provide analytics and decision tools for professionals. Learn more at www.elsevier.com.
Crossref
Crossref runs open infrastructure to link research objects, entities, and actions, creating a lasting and reusable scholarly record that underpins open science. Together with our 22,000 members in 160 countries, we drive metadata exchange and support nearly 2 billion monthly API queries, facilitating global research communication, for the benefit of society. Learn more at crossref.org and you can also find us at linktr.ee/crossref.
Cottage Labs
Cottage Labs is a partnership of software and data experts. We use open source technologies tailored to meet the exact needs of knowledge organisations to enable them to gather, manage and share data to meet the diverse demands of their users.
We are responsive, adaptable, and can co-create software for you, which supports your evolving knowledge management and sharing needs. We excel in building Data Repositories, Open Access infrastructure, as well as bespoke data search and visualisation tools. Whatever your data needs are, from capturing at source, to tools for management, analysis and insight, right through to making your data available and useful for others, Cottage Labs can help you.
Emerald Publishing
For nearly 60 years, our mission has been to publish research that has real-world impact, where all voices are heard and represented. We’re driven by the belief that social science research can – and should – change people’s lives.
Building on our longstanding strengths in management and business, our publishing program now spans a wide range of applied social science via 400+ journals, over 4180+ books, and 3100+ business cases. Read more at emerald.com/publishing.
MDPI
A pioneer in scholarly, open access publishing, MDPI has supported academic communities since 1996. Based in Basel, Switzerland, MDPI has the mission to foster open scientific exchange in all forms, across all disciplines.
Our 488 diverse and open access journals, including 479 peer-reviewed journals and 9 conference journals, are supported by more than 295,000 academic experts who share our mission, values, and commitment to providing high-quality service for our authors.
Burgundy
Providing support to our Publishers through subscription management, open access agreements, and proactive promotion into new markets.
Burgundy represent the following publishers in the Nordic Region
- AMS. Providing access to the MathSciNet database, Journals and eBooks
- BioOne. A database of over 200 titles in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. In 2026 we launch a Subscribe to Open pilot.
- Mary Ann Liebert. Leading academic titles in biotechnology and the life sciences, specialized clinical medicine, public health and policy.
- SIAM. Journals and ebooks focused on applied mathematics, computational and data science.
- SPIE Digital Library. The most extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing access to Journals, Conference Proceedings and Presentations, and eBooks.
Interested in sponsoring Munin 2025?
The price of a sponsorship package for the 2025 conference is NOK 25,000 (incl. VAT). Sponsors will receive:
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- acknowledgements on the conference website and on social media
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- exhibition space at the conference venue
The exhibition space will be set in the poster hall outside of the conference auditoria (see Participant Guide for information on the conference venue and how to get there). The exhibition space will include a poster stand, a desk and a chair.
At least one sponsor representative must be present at the exhibition space during breaks and sessions in the poster hall. Note that the sponsorship package does not include complimentary participant registrations – sponsor representatives will have to register as regular participants.
If you would like to seize an opportunity to sponsor the Munin conference in 2025, please get in touch with the organizing committee at muninconference@ub.uit.no. Please prepare the following:
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- Sponsor logo in PNG or JPEG
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- A text of up to 100 words that presents the sponsor
The deadline for sponsors to confirm their contributions is 16 October 2025. Sponsors will be sent an electronic invoice from UiT The Arctic University of Norway. In order to send an electronic invoice, UiT needs the following information:
- VAT number
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- Formal name of the sponsoring organization
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- Physical address
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- Name of the contact person
- VAT number