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Principles

Principle 1: Cost management

The total cost for scholarly publications will not exceed the current overall cost when transitioning to open access. The estimate of overall costs reflects all present costs and the total volume of research.

Ensuring the realisation and monitoring of the principle:

• Review of the initial situation: During 2020 the Finnish National Library will conduct an assessment in cooperation with the research organisations to estimate the overall cost of open access to scholarly publications for the research organisations. Additionally, the Finnish National Library will estimate the cost of open access for Finnish scientific publishers. The review will account for the costs of open access that have already been incurred.
• Continuous monitoring: The Finnish National Library will annually monitor the overall costs of access to scholarly publications and changes in the cost structure in cooperation with the research organisations.

Principle 2: Equal opportunity to publish

All researchers have an equal opportunity to publish their research through open access, regardless of field of research, funding basis, or career stage.

Ensuring the realisation and monitoring of the principle:

• Review of the initial situation: During 2020, the Open Science Coordination will review the specific challenges related to equal opportunities.
• Continuous monitoring: The Open Science Coordination will monitor developments in equal opportunities in cooperation with the research organisations, and will initiate dialogue on ways to increase equal opportunities.

Principle 3: Independent assessment

When assessing scholarly publications, the quality and openness of individual research publications are considered independently.

Ensuring the realisation and monitoring of the principle:

• Review of the initial situation: During 2020, there will be a review on how open access to publications is currently taken into account in the systems for assessing researchers at higher education institutions and other research organisations.
• Continuous monitoring: Coordination of a regular review of how open access to publications is taken into account in the systems for evaluating researchers at higher education institutions and research organisations.

  a) The Publication Forum will monitor the open access publication channels and impact of open access on the average level of quality of the publication channels.

  b) The Responsible Evaluation of Researchers recommendation defines in more detail the importance of open of research practices in researcher assessment.Publications-footnote-1

Principle 4: Dynamic assessment

The assessment of researchers and research takes into account new and changing forms of publishing reflecting open science.

Ensuring the realisation and monitoring of the principle:

• Review of the initial situation: During 2020, a review will be conducted of how new forms of open scholarly publishing are taken into account in the systems for evaluating researchers and research at higher education institutions and other research organisations.
• Continuous monitoring: There will be regular reviews of how new forms of open scholarly publishing are taken into account in the systems for evaluating researchers and research at higher education institutions and research organisations.

  a) Research organisations and research funders commit to taking open access into account in their evaluations. The Responsible Evaluation of Researchers recommendation defines research outputs, including data and research methods, open access and evaluation in more detail. More details on open access to research material are outlined in a separate policy.

The publication in its entirety is available on the Internet free of charge and without restrictions to read, print and copy at least for non-commercial use.

Opening up education or Open Education means extending access to and participation in education to larger audiences and target groups by lowering barriers to education and increasing accessibility, unrestrictedness, offering and learner-centeredness. It diversifies the possibilities of teaching, learning and building, joint development and sharing of knowledge and combines the pathways of formal and nonformal learning. Although open education is often carried out using digital technologies, open education is not the same as digital education or digitalisation of educational resources.