• Open Science

    Open Science allows for more efficient use of research findings by the society.
    Open Science makes knowledge more democratic
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Open Science

Open science is a resource for society

Publicly funded research belongs to both the academic community and society at large. At the University of Helsinki, we increasingly make our research openly available to all of society to be used as a shared knowledge base. On these pages, you can explore interviews with researchers to find out what open science can accomplish, get to know our strategy and services for openness, as well as search for open data from different sources.

Benefits of open science

Open science is a way of advancing science and its impact on society. By adhering to the principles of open science, we make our research findings more easily available to other researchers, save resources, and increase the quality of science. Open science can be citizen science, which provides an opportunity for anyone to partake in high quality research. In the information society, openly available data and research produces new insights and services. Open science can be used for example in bettering public health, protecting the environment or studying historical material in new ways.

Open science in the researcher’s daily work

For researchers, opening up research data and publications brings more visibility and more citations. In practice, openness means that research material, methods and publications are made available online with no restrictions whenever possible. Extensive accessibility, usability and transparency of the entire research process benefits everyone.

The researchers guide to open access publishing

The University library's manual in open publishing, including principles and services for University of Helsinki researchers.

The researcher's guide to data management

This manual by the University of Helsinki library provides tools for better data management.

Using the University of Helsinki research portal

The University Library's instructions for using the University research portal.

Open data and publishing

Open publications and openly available data repositories are accessible for all, which increases the public’s trust towards research and public institutions. Openness is implemented in a systematic, strategic and responsible manner. Ethical and legal aspects are considered when opening research data. As a rule, dissertations, research publications and resources generated at the University are open access.

University of Helsinki open access publications

Explore the open access publications by researchers at the University of Helsinki.

Etsin: open data and metainformation

With the Etsin tool, you can search for research data and their metainformation from Fairdata services.

Research data services

You have data. The University Data Support helps you to store, secure and share it.

Self-archiving

Send your manuscript to the University of Helsinki Library and ensure its openness, findability and long-term storage.