Finland

• 27 November 2018
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National Open Access Desk

Helsingin Yliopisto

Contacts

Pauli Assinen |

• Overview
• Statistics
• Open Science Policy
• Infrastructure
• Training & Support
• Funders
• News

• 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 Data
    
    

    Open 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.

• To be updated soon.

  OpenAIRE statistics

  232,657 OA publications in 22 repositories

  • Timeline
  • Graph
  • Repositories
  • Document Types
  • FP7

• 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:

  • The Academy of Finland

• 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
  WDCA

  National 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.

• Look for information about Training and Support in Finland here Open Science and Research Training.

• 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)