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« Publishers are demanding increasingly higher fees for reading scientific journals and open access publishing, even though the scientific community can’t sustain even the current costs. The expenses have risen to a level that doesn’t correspond to the benefits received from the services. (…) »

« The updated policy combines the policy component on open research data from 2021 and a brand new component on research methods and infrastructures. The policy emphasises openness as an integral part of research quality and impact throughout the research life cycle. (…) »

« In 2022, Aalto’s researchers published more publications open access than ever before. What are the changes we see in 2023? (…) »

« The monitoring results provide a comprehensive overview of the state of Finnish open science and research (…) »

« The roadmap for national research infrastructures in Finland is a list of research infrastructure services of strategic importance for Finland’s research, education and innovation (RDI) that will be needed over the next 10–15 years. The new roadmap for 2021–2024 describes for the first time the national and international research infrastructure…

« The Academy of Finland (AKA), Finland’s major public research funding agency, uses a Web of Science (WoS) based bibliometric indicator to assess the performance of research it has funded. We use an alternative methodology to compare (1) the research performance and (2) the scholarly communication profile of AKA-funded research to…

« One of the key objectives of EOSC is to ensure that Open Science practises and skills are rewarded and taught, becoming the ‘new normal’. Reproducible research is one of the pillars of Open Science. Josefine Nordling, CSC – IT Center for Science, opened the webinar by presenting how the endeavour…

« The Finnish Literature Society (SKS) was founded in 1831 and has a long tradition of supporting and advancing studies in the Finnish culture and language. It is a learned society, which, among its goals, states its desire for “conveying information about oral and written Finnish cultures and their study” (“About…

« Helsinki University Press (HUP) is a young press, founded in 2017. The first OA book was published by HUP at the beginning of 2020.

It is a fully open access press, publishing both books and journals in all academic disciplines. They publish three OA journals and two book series, alongside…

« Open access (OA) has mostly been studied by relying on publication data from selective international databases, notably Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus. The aim of our study is to show that it is possible to achieve a national estimate of the number and share of OA based on institutional…