Finland
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UNIFI, the Finnish universities’ council of rectors has started 2018 Open Science and data - action programme for Finnish scholarly community. The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies is coordinating the programme. Main objective is: Finland is an Open Science trendsetter. In Finland, Open Science is part of the daily life of science at all levels.
This programme continues the work done in the past four years (2014-2017) in the Open Science and Research Initiative funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture. The objective was for Finland to become one of the leading countries in openness of science and research by the year 2017 and to ensure that the results of Open Science will be widely utilised in our society.Support and landscape
There are several national level services offered for the Finnish research system (https://openscience.fi/services).
For discover and use:
- research data »Etsin
- data from Finnish Social Science Data Archive »Aila
- language corpora »Language Bank of Finland
- open research data »AVAA
- vocabularies and ontologies »Finto
- publications and theses »Publication archives
- infrastructures »Finnish Research Infrastructures
For manage and preserve:
- data management plan »Tuuli
- research data »IDA
- Finnish Social Science Data Archive Services »FSD
- language resources »Language Bank of Finland
For open and share:
- research data with its metadata »Etsin
- open data »AVAA
- data preserved by the Finnish Social Science Data Archive »Aila
- vocabularies and ontologies »Finto
- text and speech corpora »Language Bank of Finland
Under development:
digital preservation of research »Digital preservation
tools for putting linked data to work »ATTX
describing data »Metadata Tool for Research DataOpen Science and Research training is given in HEIs and RIs. An online course on open science and The open science and research handbook are available. Presentation slides about Open science and research training in Finland. (See also https://openscience.fi/training)
National initiatives
UNIFI, the Finnish universities’ council of rectors has started 2018 Open Science and data - action programme for Finnish scholarly community. The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies is coordinating the programme. The main objective is: Finland is an Open Science trendsetter. In Finland, Open Science is part of the daily life of science at all levels.
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OpenAIRE statistics
593849 OA publications in 42 repositories -
National policy
There is no national Open Science Policy in Finland, but the Research and Innovation Council, an advisory body chaired by the Prime Minister, has adopted a vision and roadmap for 2030. One of the short-term objectives for cross-sectoral RDI activities and education is “Finland’s status as a pioneer in open science and research increases the attractiveness of the RDI environment.”
Institutional policy
In 2017, most of the Finnish universities have published their data policies.
Summary of the policies of higher education institutions and funding agencies: https://openscience.fi/policies.
For more information about Finnish Institutional Policies please look at ROARMap and OpenDOAR.
Funder policy
Funders with an Open Access Policy:
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Key networks and aggregators
FinnOA - Unofficial network of the people interested in enhancing open science.
Open Knowledge Finland - “Open Knowledge Finland (OKFI) is a registered not-for-profit association and part of the wider international Open Knowledge -network. We promote opening and usage of open knowledge and advance development of open society in Finland. The association was founded in 2012 and has more than 400 members who present widely the Finnish ‘open’ -scene including individuals, companies and other organizations.”
RDA in Finland - ” This is a working area dedicated to the support and updates of RDA activities in Finland. This activity is supported by CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd., which is an organizational member of RDA, and hence actively acts as a mediator and promotes RDA in Finland and also abroad. This working area connects researchers working with research data in Finland, and enables them to interconnect with broader RDA activities through e.g. RDA Working and Interest Groups.”
Data repositories
EMEP
The European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme
Kielipankki
The Language Bank of Finland
RADAR Luke
Luonnonvarakeskuksen tutkimusaineistokuvausten hakupalvelu
Finnish Social Science Data Archive
Data Service Portal Aila
Etsin Research Data Finder
Etsin - tutkimusaineistojen hakupalvelu
IDA Research Data Storage Service
IDA - Tutkimusaineistojen säilytyspalvelu
ECCAD - the GEIA database
Emissions of atmospheric Compounds & Compilation of Ancillary Data
CanGEM
Cancer GEnome Mine
World Data Center for Aerosols
WDCANational publishing initiatives
Journal.fi is designed to meet the needs of authors, readers, publishers and funders in the context of Open Access journals. The service is using the Open Journal Systems 3.0 software.National agreements with publishers
FinELib is a consortium of Finnish universities, research institutions and public libraries. It negotiates e-resource license agreements for the Finnish scholarly community. Read more on the negotiations here.OA books
No information available.
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Look for information about Training and Support in Finland here Open Science and Research Training.
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Funding Agencies
Finland has 1 major funding agency which is listed here:
Integrated in OpenAIRE
Finland has 1 funding agency integrated in OpenAIRE:
The Academy of Finland (6.615 projects)
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