« SPARC Europe is honoured to support the Council for National Open Science Coordination (CoNOSC) in their efforts to advance national European Open Science policies. The CoNOSC mission is to help countries create, update and cooordinate their national open science policies by sharing valuable insights from the network.
« This article analyses the impact and visibility of scholarly journals in the humanities that are publishing in the national languages in Finland, Norway and Spain. Three types of publishers are considered: commercial publishers, scholarly society as publisher, and research organizations as publishers. Indicators of visibility and impact were obtained from…
« POLICY COMPONENT 1: OPEN ACCESS TO RESEARCH DATA
This policy consists of policy components. The first policy component concerns research data and is completed in the spring of 2021. The policy component on research methods, including code and software, is estimated to be completed in 2022. On a general…
« The Finnish Heritage Agency has made more than 200,000 high-resolution pictures, i.e. large and print-quality collection picture files, freely accessible through the Finna service. The intention is to make cultural heritage materials as accessible, open and usable as possible. (…) »
« Starting with calls to be opened after 1 January 2021, the Academy of Finland will introduce a number of reforms concerning open access to scientific publications and responsible researcher evaluation. Through the reforms, the Academy wants to further strengthen its long-established policies on openness of scientific outputs and responsibility in…
« Finto AI is a service for automated subject indexing. It can be used to suggest subjects for text in Finnish, Swedish and English.. It currently gives suggestions based on concepts of the the General Finnish Ontology YSO. (…) »
« Research.fi is a service offered by the Ministry of Education and Culture that collects and shares information on research conducted in Finland. The service improves the location of information and experts on research and increases the visibility and societal impact of Finnish research.
The service…
« This is a recommendation for the responsible evaluation of a researcher. In this context, a researcher is a person who is a member of the teaching and research staff of a Finnish university or research institute or is primarily engaged in research or applying for research funding.This recommendation has been…
« 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
(…) This evaluation examines the key indicators chosen to assess the performance on openness. Key indicators are used to provide some insights…
« Universities across Europe are tackling the same open science challenges with constantly diminishing resources. The need for improved open publishing services is obvious if the universities are to meet the ambitions of the European Union to publish 100% openly by the year 2020. Sometimes making a game plan might seem…
