« In autumn 2015, under the leadership of the Rector, the University of Helsinki decided to launch a project to update the university’s research data infrastructure. The Project Mildred project started in spring 2016 and continued until spring 2018.
The aim of Project Mildred was to provide researchers with a…
« Negotiations between the FinELib consortium and Taylor & Francis ended with no positive results. The end of the negotiations means that access to Taylor & Francis journals will end on 1 February 2019. (…) »
« The University of Helsinki’s own open access publisher Helsinki University Press (HUP) has refined its publishing and service processes and is preparing to publish its first books this year. HUP will also publish scientific journals in the future. (…) »
« This paper presents a series of projects where one of the main sources for toponomastic research in Finland, the corpora of 2.7 million place names in the Names Archive database of the Institute for the Languages of Finland, was digitized, and how the resulting database was converted, enriched and published…
« The license negotiations with scholarly publishers must advance the transition to open access publishing, the Finnish university rectors demand in a statement published today. Universities Finland UNIFI gives its full support to FinELib consortium’s negotiation goals. (…) »
« Inspired by the Research Data Alliance (RDA) national node meeting in June, CSC – IT Center for Science, the coordinator of RDA in Finland, organized an open event « Research Data Breakfast » at Tiedekulma in Helsinki. This event brings together research data actors and practitioners in an informal way to…
« This document presents a roadmap for the Finnish research community for implementing research datacitation practices. The roadmap consists of an evaluation of the current situation, description of the target state and recommendations on measures that would lead from the current situation to the target state. It also presents an information…
« The interim review of the strategy and roadmap for Finnish research infrastructures 2014–2020 was conducted in 2017–2018. The interim review report has now been published.
The objective of the interim review was to investigate the topicality of the research infrastructure strategy and its procedures, as well as…
« The report Opening academic publishing. Development and application of systematic evaluation criteria summarises the development of a standardised scorecard for evaluating the openness of academic publishers. The assessment was completed in January 2018 as part of the Open Science and Research Initiative of the Finnish Ministry of…
« The FinELib consortium and Elsevier have signed a 3 year agreement regarding the Science Direct Freedom Collection. The agreement offers researchers also an opportunity to publish their articles open access with a discount on article processing charges (APC). (…) »
