The University of Helsinki supports open access to research publications

The goal of the University of Helsinki is to

• support open access to research results; the University wants the results of publicly funded research to be openly accessible online and available to anyone interested in them,
• encourage other research funders to also require the results of studies funded by them to be openly accessible,
• increase the visibility, use and impact of the University’s own research publications by offering open access to them through the University’s own open publication repository,
• use various support services to make it easier for researchers to arrange open access to publications.

Since spring 2010, researchers have been required to self-archive their research articles in the University’s open repository.

The University of Helsinki requires researchers at the University to deposit copies of their research articles published in academic journals in HELDA, the open digital repository maintained by the University of Helsinki.
According to the Rector’s decision concerning self-archiving (126 / 2008), this procedure will apply to articles approved for publication since the beginning of 2010. However, implementation of the decision was postponed to spring 2010 and the launch of the TUHAT research information system, which makes it easy to openly archive publications using the same system that researchers and departments use to maintain their register of publications and information about other research activities. [Further information]

The University of Helsinki also recommends open access for older articles and other research publications

The University also recommends that copies of articles published before 2010 be deposited in the University’s open digital repository.
It is also possible to store other types of publications in the repository, such as popular articles, other published documents, the University’s publications as well as monographs and teaching material, if permitted by publishing contracts.

The University of Helsinki recommends the use of open access publication channels!

The University urges its researchers to favour channels that comply with open access policies when publishing their work. These include open access journals of individual disciplines as well as openly accessible serial publications. It is also possible to submit, in conformance with the discipline’s established standards, a research article published elsewhere to one of the discipline-specific, open publication repositories (such as ArXiv for physicists).