Policy component for open access to journal and conference articles
The policy will take effect on 1 January 2020. The strategic objectives call for immediate implementation of the actions. However, the planned achievement date for several objectives is in 2022 or later.
Definitions
The policy for journal articles and conference publications concerns Finnish and international peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and conference publications (Ministry of Education and Culture publication type classification A, excluding A3), which are sent to a publisher for consideration on or after 1 January 2022, and
- in which all the authors work at or are affiliated with a Finnish research organisation[1] or the authors are funded by a Finnish research funder[2]
or
- in which the corresponding author[3] works at or is affiliated with a Finnish research organisation or is funded by a Finnish research funder.[4]
In this policy, “researcher” refers to a researcher employed or affiliated with a Finnish research organisation or one conducting research funded by a Finnish research funder.
“Immediate open access” refers to the publishing of a peer-reviewed[5] version of an article as an open access document in the publisher’s channel or using a repository route provided by the researcher’s/research organisation without any embargoes placed by the publisher. Immediate open access does not directly address the rights to reuse research data in publications, as these are defined separately.
Objectives and the required actions
Objective 1: New scientific articles and conference publications will be immediately openly accessible.
No later than 2022, all new scientific articles and conference publications will be immediately openly accessible.3
Actions required to achieve the objective:
- FinELib magazines have the right to publish all articles open or parallel at the time of publication.. By 2022, the scientific journal agreements of FinELib must include the right to publish all articles with open access or make them openly accessible via a repository route at the time of publishing.
- Immediate openness in direct contract negotiations. The research organisations will strive to achieve immediate open access in direct agreement negotiations with the publishers that are not included in the agreements concluded by FinELib.
- Approval of reasonable fees for openness. The research organisations may accept reasonable fees that guarantee open access to individual articles when a separate agreement has not been reached with the publisher.
- Research organisations alllow for parallel publishing. The research organisations will enable a repository route through their own open access repositories or those maintained by another party, with the aim of achieving immediate open access in cases where an article cannot be published with open access in the publisher’s channels at a reasonable cost.Publications-footnote-8
- Open access training and support. The research organisations will offer their researchers training and support concerning open access to scholarly publications, ensuring that researchers can easily gain information on publication channels that fulfil the criteria of immediate open access in the fields of research that are essential for each research organisation.
- Management creates conditions for open access. The management of the research organisations and of the research groups will create opportunities for open access to scholarly publications taking into consideration the nature of each organisation.
- Prioritisation of publication channels enabling open access. Researchers will prioritisePublications-footnote-9 sending research to publication channels that enable immediate open access (including open scholarly publishing channels and open access repositories).
- Research funders allow costs to be included in funding. The research funders will enable the costs of open access to be included in funding.
- Definition of measures of reasonableness of article fees. Coordinated by the Open Science Coordination, the research organisations and research funders will determine benchmarks to evaluate how reasonable Article Processing Charges (APC) are. International examples (e.g. Plan S) will be followed when determining the benchmarks.
- Create an operating model for the development of new and new types of open publication channels. The research organisations and funders will create a joint operating model for participating in the development of new and novel open publication channels and supporting the conversion of existing channels into open ones in a sustainable way, as well as helping existing open channels become more established.
Objective 2: The total cost of scholarly publication channels and individual publications is transparent and publicly available
The total cost of scholarly publication channels and individual publications is transparent and publicly available
Actions required to achieve the objective:
- FinELib will publish the scientific journal agreements concluded with publishers including their total cost.. FinELib will publish the scientific journal agreements concluded with publishers including their total cost.Publications-footnote-10
- The Ministry of Education and Culture will continue to collect cost data. The Ministry of Education and Culture will continue to collect cost data on the material directly ordered by the research organisations.
- FinELib will record journal agreements in the international ESAC agreement registry. FinELib will record journal agreements in the international ESACPublications-footnote-11 agreement registry
- The terms of the contract allow the publication of price information. The research organisations will aim for contractual terms that enable them to publish cost data.
- APC data for Finland are included in the OpenAPC. By 2022, the research organisations and FinELib will make sure that the APC data for Finland are included in the OpenAPCPublications-footnote-12.
- The total cost of scholarly publications domiciled in Finland is transparent and publicly available. The total cost of scholarly publications domiciled in Finland is transparent and publicly available.
Objective 3: CC-licence to all new research publications to protect researcher’s rights
By 2022, a CC-licence is applied to all new research publications to provide open access and to protect researcher’s rights.
Actions required to achieve the objective:
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FinELib’s scientific journal agreements include the right to publish all articles open. By 2022, the scientific journal agreements by FinELib must include the right to publish all articles with open access under a Creative Commons (CC) licence.
- a) If a repository route is used as the means for enabling open access, a CC licence that guarantees open access should also be used.
- It is recommended that metadata are made open under a CC0 licence. To ensure the transfer of publication data, it is recommended that metadata are made open under a CC0 licence.
- TSV will coordinate training on licences for researchers and research support services. Federation for Finnish Learned Societies will coordinate training on licences for researchers and research support services in cooperation with the Finnish Association for Scholarly Publishing, the Finnish CC Group and the research organisations.Publications-footnote-13
- Research organisations provide training and support for open licences. The research organisations will offer their researchers training and support for open licences. In addition, they will ensure that researchers can easily gain information on the various licences offered by publication channels in the fields of research that are essential for each research organisation.
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Researchers will prioritise sending research to publication channels that enable a CC licence. Researchers will prioritisePublications-footnote-14 sending research to publication channels that enable a CC licence.
- a) A CC BY licence is recommended as the primary option.
Objective 4: National publication model for immediate open access
The research community creates a jointly funded publishing model that enables immediate open access to research articles published in Finland.
Actions required to achieve the objective:
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The Federation for Finnish Learned Societies will facilitate the creation of a jointly funded and sustainable publishing model. By 2020, The Federation for Finnish Learned Societies will facilitate the creation of a jointly funded and sustainable publishing model.
- a) The Federation for Finnish Learned Societies is responsible for developing and maintaining the Journal.fi service, which is intended for editing and publishing scientific journals, with resources provided by the Ministry of Education and Culture.
- The research organisations and funders will commit to equal treatment with regard to the language of publishing when evaluating researchers. The research organisations and funders will commit to equal treatment with regard to the language of publishing when evaluating researchers.
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Finnish scholarly pub-lishers will ensure the data in their publications in preserved through sustainable means. By 2022, Finnish scholarly publishers will ensure the data in their publications in preserved through sustainable means.
- a) The publishers may outsource the arrangements for data preservation to another trusted operator.
- ↑ Finnish research organisation refers to higher education institutions and public research institutes registered in Finland.
- ↑ Finnish research funder refers to any actor registered in Finland that funds scientific research.
- ↑ The role of corresponding author should be agreed on in accordance with the recommendation of the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity (TENK) entitled Agreeing on authorship – Recommendation for research publications. However, researchers working in or affiliated with Finnish research organisations who participate in joint international projects are encouraged to actively aim for the role of corresponding author, thus promoting the achievement of the objectives of open science.
- ↑ With respect to the information concerning open access, which is included in the information on publications collected by the Ministry of Education and Culture, it should be noted that it covers all publications where one or more of the authors are researchers working in organisations covered by the reporting.
- ↑ Pre-prints, i.e. non peer-reviewed draft publications, that are saved in a publicly accessible databases do not fulfill the criteria of open access. Publications kept in international open access repositories fulfill the criteria of open access after they have been peer reviewed.