Status and Plans in Finland Sami Niinimäki Senior Advisor NordForsk / NeGI Open Access Workshop Thursday, 14 August 2014

Selected higher education facts about Finland

• Population of 5,4 million • Higher education institution

network covers the populated parts of the country

– 14 universities (four in the great Helsinki area)

– 24 polytechnics

• 18 research institutes and 5 university hospitals

• Student enrollment altogether ca. 316 000

University (blue) Polytechnic (green) Research institute (red)

Investment in R&D and Talent 2013

Open Science and Research 2009-2017

Research Data Survey Project 2009-2011

National Research Data Project 2011-2014

Open Science and Research Initiative Roadmap 2014

• Open access • Open data • Open methods

• Roadmap

• Services • Metadata • International

collaboration • Awareness

Open Science and Research Initiative Target 2017

• National and international collaboration

• Change of culture • Open Science Handbook • Services for preservation • Services for metadata • Services for access • Tools e.g. for identification

The Open Science and Research Initiative

• The Ministry of Education and Culture has launched the Open Science and Research Initiative, for the promotion of information availability and open science for years 2014–2017.

• The Initiative will implement the national political agenda in a way that increases the competitiveness and quality of the Finnish research system.

• The Initiative will promote the reliability, openness and societal impact of science and research.

• The aim is to provide researchers with practical knowledge in how they as individuals can implement open science.

• Promoting open science promotes also innovations. • The goal is that by 2017, Finland will become a leading country in the

openness of science and research.

Recent actions

• A handbook on open science is published and by the end of the year it will be updated with the output of several working groups dealing with:

• Policies of openness in research environments

• Promotion of open access to publications

• A common data model for higher education and research

• Impact assessment

• A model for copyright agreements

Structures of the Open Science and Research initiative

Three entities

1. Research publications – Publication storage – Publication metadata service – Publication access services

2. Research data – Data storage – Metadata service – Data access services

3. Research methods – Method storage – Metadata services – Method access service

Supporting change

4. Research environments – Research infrastructures – Test/development environments (e.g.

JulkICTlab) – Environments requiring authorisation

(sensitive data)

5. Tools – Access control, identity management and

rights management

6. Competence – "Open science manual" – Courses and tutoring – Data management skills as part of university

education

Collaboration structure of the Open Science and Research Initiative

Open science and research strategy group (management of universities, scientific institutes and research

institutes, ministries, funding bodies, etc.)

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Service user forums

Workshops and targeted surveys

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Open Science and Research 2014-2017 (ATT)

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Programme

Research Institute Reform

Horizon 2020

Planning Data gathering

Data gathering

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Utilisation of the results

Networks (Open Science

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Citizen's science

Education and Research

National Digital Library

Opening Science in Finland

Targets set by EC

• By 2014, policies for open access to scientific articles and data will have been established in all Member States at all relevant levels.

• By 2016, the share of publicly-funded scientific articles available under open access EU-wide will have increased from 20% to 60%.

• 100% of scientific publications resulting from Horizon 2020 will be available under open access.

Source: Towards better access to scientific information: Boosting the benefits of public investments in research. Commission 17.7.2012.

Actors for Open Science and Research in Finland

• Ministry of Education and Culture – Open Science and Research Initiative (ATT)

• Research councils and funding agencies – Academy of Finland and TEKES

• Higher education institutions – As an example, University of Helsinki is a leading player in OA in Finland

• Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD) – A national resource center of social science research and education. Archives, promotes and

disseminates digital research data. Funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture.

• Other actors – CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd. develops and provides IT services for research, education,

culture, and administrative purposes – The National Library of Finland provides centralized repository platform services – Federation of Finnish Learned Societies supports publishing activities by providing

distribution and storage services and consultation – FinnOA is a group of professionals from academia, libraries and data management,

promoting open access to scientific information

Information on the Open Science and Research initiative

• Background information on the project: http://openscience.fi/

• Please contact – Riitta Maijala, chair of the strategy group, Ministry of education and culture

riitta.maijala@minedu.fi – Juha Haataja, Ministry of education and culture juha.haataja@minedu.fi – Sami Niinimäki, Ministry of education culture sami.niinimaki@minedu.fi – Pirjo-Leena Forsström, chair of the expert group, CSC pirjo-

leena.forsstrom@csc.fi

• Email: avointiede@postit.csc.fi

• Twitter: @AvoinTiede

• Facebook: facebook.com/avointiede

Thank you

Photo: Sara Djupsund