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Open access to research data

This national policy component is the Finnish research community’s1 shared guideline for the advancement of open access to research data. The policy component does not include research methods as these will, in accordance with the policy structure, be discussed in a separate policy component. The policy component on open access to research data primarily concerns research data that has been produced or used as part of a research or development process as of 1 July 2021 and

• where the researcher is working in or is affiliated with a Finnish research organisation and/or working with funding by a Finnish research funding organisation
  

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• where the research or development project involving the compilation or use of the research data takes place in a Finnish research organisation and/or is funded by a Finnish research funding organisation.

The objectives below do not take a position on how organisations decide matters, which means that research organisations are tasked with planning according to their own starting points.

Objective 1: Data management plans

No later than 2023, data management plans have been drawn up as part of quality management for all starting research and development projects, taking into account the needs of different fields of science and the lifecycle of the research data.

Actions required to achieve the objective:

1. Higher education institutions offer instructions, practices and training in data management planning. No later than 2022, higher education institutions will offer instructions, practices and training in the field of data management planning for students, researchers and other personnel.
2. Data management plans covering the entire data lifecycle. No later than 2023, research organisations will include creation and maintenance of data management plans in their research and service processes at each stage of the data lifecycle.
3. Thesis supervisors are able to evaluate and comment on data management plans. No later than 2024, higher education institutions will ensure that thesis supervisors are able to evaluate and comment on data management plans as part of their supervisory work.
4. Research organisations support research planning in data management. No later than 2022, research organisations support research planning so as to ensure preparedness for sufficient resourcing and costs of data management and its support.
5. data management training included in curricula. Higher education institutions include data management training in their curricula for basic and further education when curricula are updated.
6. Monitoring to ensure good and responsible data management practices. No later than 2024, research organisations have developed monitoring to ensure implementation of good and responsible data management practices.
7. Regularly updated data policies. No later than 2022, research organisations have regularly updated data policies.

Objective 2: Operating models for all rights, terms and licenses

No later than 2022, research organisations apply operating models with which all rights, terms and licenses related to the use of research data can be clearly agreed between all participants in research work.

Actions required to achieve the objective:

1. Recommendations on the legal questions in agreements. During 2021, the Open Science Coordination will produce a report on the legal questions related to open science. Recommendations on the content of agreements will be created in co-operation with the Finnish research community.
2. Basic principles for the agreements on the rights and responsibilities. In 2021, research organisations have basic principles concerning the agreements on the rights and responsibilities related to research data. Advice and guidance are available for special cases.
3. Instructions on licensing and commercialisation. In 2021, research funding organisations and research organisations will instruct researchers either to appropriately license research data to be opened or to guarantee the societal impact of the research outputs through commercialisation.
4. Guidelines for the reuse of research data produced with public funding. In 2021, research funding organisations and research organisations will instruct researchers on licensing according to the requirements of legislation on the reuse of research data produced with public funding.
5. Education and/or training and advice on rights and licences. In 2021, research organisations will offer education and/or training and advice on rights related to research data and open science licenses.

Objective 3: Documentation supports FAIR research data

No later than 2022, research data produced in starting research and development projects have been documented so that the documentation supports the opening, re-use, findability, interoperability and accessibility of research data.

Actions required to achieve the objective:

1. Research organisations support researchers in metadata production. No later than 2022, research organisations support researchers in the production of metadata through support services and incentives.
2. Training and support for documenta-tion of research data. No later than 2022, research organisations will offer training and support as well as tools for documentation of research data to various target groups, taking into account the skills development of the target groups, the needs of various fields of science, and the lifecycle of the research.
3. Prepareations for the documentation costs. In 2021, research organisations support research planning so that research projects are able to prepare for the documentation costs of research data.
4. Specification of indicators for open science. No later than 2022, the working group for open science and research monitoring will specify indicators for open science.
5. Research organisations utilise suitable indicators. No later than 2023, research organisations will utilise suitable indicators with which they monitor their progress in good data management as part of the quality system.

Objective 4: Storage solution, infrastructure, and services

No later than 2022, a storage solution, infrastructure, and services have been created for research data. These are appropriate for good data management and take into account the lifecycle of research data.

Actions required to achieve the objective:

1. Revision of the existing services as part of the national architecture work and initiatation of development measures in organisations. In 2021, Finnish research organisations will review the existing services as part of the national architecture work. The organisations will, on their part, initiate necessary development measures and promote the use of national and international services.
2. Instructions and sufficient support services in data managemetn. No later than 2022, research organisations, in co-operation with national and international operators, will produce and provide instructions and sufficient support services for researchers and research groups in order to enable data storage and publication in accordance with the principles of good data management.
3. Not for profit-oriented research data infrastructures. The research community will ensure that the key open research data infrastructures are not pro-fit-orientedMaterials-footnote-10.

Objective 5: Operating model to utilise expertise and multi-professional cooperation

No later than 2022, research organisations apply an operating model according to which expertise and multi-professional cooperation is utilised for the development of training, skills, and required data management services. The operating model cannot be restricted to the research data to be opened. Good data management requires the management of the entire lifecycle, regardless of the end result.

Actions required to achieve the objective:

1. Skills and services development in national and international cooperation. The research community develops the structures and content for skills and services in national and international cooperation.
2. Impartial training in good data management in research organisations. In 2021, research organisations will offer, independently or in co-operation, training in good data management according to the needs of their community for researchers, teachers, supervisors and support personnel at all career stages.
3. Description of required expert roles. No later than 2023, research organisations will describe required expert roles in co-operation on a national level and create possible career paths for them.
4. Expert training development as part of students' course selection. Higher education institutions will develop expert training as part of their course selection for students.

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