Many funders, including the Research Council of Finland and European research funders, expect the publications produced in projects to publish open access. Also academic publications and theses produced at the University of Helsinki are openly available by default.
Openness can be achieved either by publishing the article in a research channel that is committed to open access publishing, or by self-archiving the publication. The use of open publication channels must usually be indicated already in the publication plan. For funding to be granted, applicants may be required to publish their research results as open access.
For funders' open publication requirements and guidelines, see the Open policy finder database.
The Helsinki University Library offers self-archiving service and open access as well as licensing support. Library also helps with research data management planning.
The University Library offers a self-archiving service and support with research data management planning and licensing issues.
In addition, he Library is involved in the information sessions organised by UH research funding services in where, as a researcher at the University of Helsinki, you can find out more about the open science requirements.
You can also send us your publication or research data management plan for commenting:
European Comission emphasizes public access to publicly-funded research results. Research projects operating under the programme of Horizon Europe are obligated to act openly.
Open access publishing requirements for Horizon Europe and European Research Council (ERC) can be found in the Open policy finder database.
Research results should be disseminated as widely as possible and as early as possible (e.g. through pre-prints).
During the project phase, all peer reviewed scientific publications must be immediately self-archived under Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY) or a license with equivalent rights in a repository.
Monographs, licenses with restrictions for derivatives and commercial use, are allowed (CC BY-NC and CC BY-ND). The version must be either an accepted author manuscript (final draft, post-print) or a publisher's version (final published version, version of record) of the publication.
Open Research Europe is fully open access chanel for publishing articles that have received European Comission funding.
The Research Council of Finland requires that funded projects commit to open access publishing. It supports the objectives of Plan S and The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA).
Peer-reviewed articles shall be made immediately open by publishing in Open Access journals or by self-archiving e.g. in an institutional repository.
Additionally, all publications must be deposited either into a institutional or into international discipline-oriented repository.
You can check the publisher's requirements for self-archiving from Open Policy Finder-database.
For Plan S-compliancy it must be immediately available with CC BY-license (recommendation, alternatives CC BY-SA, CC0 or CC BY-ND).
You can check the publisher's requirements for self-archiving from Open Policy Finder-database (funder's requirements).
If no information cannot be found, use Pre-submission letter template by cOAlition S to ask for permission to self-archive the article without embargo and with the required license. If the answer is "yes", use Submission cover letter template when submitting the article (you can find a user guide from the same webpage).
f the publisher does not give permission to Plan S-compliant self-archiving, the Research Council of Finland does not for the time being require self-archiving according to Rights Retention Strategy by cOAlition S (natural science 6 monts/humanities and social sciences 12 months), but the principal investigator can at will apply it (or ask the library to self-archive the article according to it, the responsibility remains with the PI).
If necessary, the Research Council will require that a peer-reviewed article published behind a paywall be made available in accordance with our practices guaranteeing open access to research publications.
The Research Council of Finland also urges researchers to publish monographs, book chapters and conference proceedings with open access but this is not compulsory. These costs should be included in the research costs.
The costs of making peer-reviewed articles immediately available are included in the overheads of the sites of research. Helsinki University Library manages the article processing charges.
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