National Open Access Desk

Courses for researchers (webpage in Finnish)

• Open Science: tutkijoiden ja tutkimushallinnon peruskurssi verkko-opiskeluna (In Finnish)
• MOOC: Avoimen tieteen verkkokurssi (in Finnish and in English)

DECLARATION FOR OPEN SCIENCE AND RESEARCH 2020-2025
The Finnish research community has jointly created a Declaration for Open Science and Research. The declaration was approved by the National Open Science and Research Steering Group on 10th of December, 2019.

The declaration provides a common direction for the development of the research community. The declaration outlines a vision, where open science and research are seamlessly integrated in researchers' everyday work. The joint mission is to promote openness as a fundamental value of science, to strengthen the relevance of research in society and to increase the mobility and impact of research.
The declaration defines four objectives that specify how openness will become part of the daily life of researchers and scientists. The goals are defined by the research community for:
• research culture
• open access to research publications,
• open access to research data and methods; and
• open education and educational resources as promoted by the research community.

The declaration can be downloaded here in PDF format in English, Finnish and Swedish

Policies of Open Science and Research in Finland 

Policies of open science and research in Finland outline in detail the strategic principles, objectives and action plans necessary to achieve the objectives set out in the Declaration for Open Science and Research.

Published
o Policy for Open Access to Scholarly Publications
At drafting and/or planning stage (April 2020)
o Policy for Open Access to Scholarly Publications: policy components on monographs, professional publications and non-textual research publications
o Policy for Open Scholarship
o Policy for Open Access to Research Data and Methods
o Policy for the Open Education and Educational Resources

The Finnish National Board on Research Integrity (TENK), appointed by the Ministry of Education and Culture, promotes the responsible conduct of research, prevents research misconduct, promotes discussion and spreads information on research integrity in Finland.  
- Responsible Research
- TENK website Responsible Research brings together coordination for Open Science, Publication Forum, The Committee for Public Information (TJNK), Finnish National Board on Research Integrity (TENK) and the Responsible Research Articles. Website is funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture in Finland.

The evaluation of the openness of Finnish research organisations, research-funding organisations, academic and cultural institutes abroad and learned societies and academies, completed by the Ministry of Education and Culture to assess the openness of operational cultures and to evaluate progress for the organisations evaluated in previous years. Results of the evaluation are published in Atlas of open science and research in Finland 2019 : Evaluation of openness in the activities of higher education institutions, research institutes, research-funding organisations, Finnish academic and cultural institutes abroad and learned societies and academies. Final report. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-263-689-8

Quote from the Atlas:

"About 80 % of the higher education institutions have principles which recommend or
encourage the use of open-access channels for publishing and more than 60 % require
the use of open-access channels. Nearly all (93 %) of the universities and 88 % of the
universities of applied sciences have recommendations on self-archiving publications
in institutional or other repositories. Of the HEIs, 60 % require self-archiving research
publications and has a support process place for it.

Compared to the previous evaluation, there has been significant improvements in
developing the principles for the openness of research methods (including algorithms
and code). Openness of research methods is surprisingly well managed in policies and
almost all of the universities and more than 70 % of the universities of applied sciences
have policies and principles for this. Almost half of the universities and about 40 % of the
universities of applied sciences require openness of research methods.

The availability, use and licensing of research data is also very well managed. Every
university has a data policy and implementation plan recommending openness of
research data, whereas eight universities of applied sciences have not yet set principles
for open research data. Ten out of thirteen universities and almost half of the universities
of applied sciences require open licensing of research data and use of agreed open
repositories."