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HELDA serves as an open full text repository for research articles and institutional series, as well as for teaching and research material produced by the departments and faculties of the University.
The archive ensures long-term storage and provides each item with a permanent web address i. e. Helda offers availability, longevity, and functionality to your digitally stored work.
Researchers at University of Helsinki self-archive their research to Helda via TUHAT.
Open Access Guide for Researchers
You have several options to publish your research Open Access:
The University of Helsinki requires researchers affiliated with the University to self-archive their scientific articles after they have been published in academic publications in the University’s Open Access repository HELDA. This can be done via the research information system TUHAT.
Self-archiving principles of University apply to all scientific scholarly articles. Publishers' policy and embargos to open self-archiving should be checked and actions taken accordingly. Library service deposit is also available.
Also Master´s and licentiate´s dissertations as well as Doctoral dissertations should be published openly. The theses submitted at the University of Helsinki are published in HELDA repository, instructions.
Several research funding providers require research results to be published in accordance with open access principles. You can consult the Sherpa/Juliet service to see your funder’s policy on Open Access publishing.
Academy of Finland requires from the beginning of the year 2016 that Academy-funded projects are committed to open access publishing. Academy also requires projects to make their research data and methods freely available. The application of funding must include, as part of the research plan, both a publication plan and a data management plan. You can get more detailed information of the DMP from our Research Data Management -guide.
European Comission emphasizes public access to publicly-funded research results. Research projects operating under the programme of Horizon 2020 are recommended to act openly. See also: European Commission background note on open access to publications and data in Horizon 2020. In Finland the programme is cordinated by Tekes.
CERN requires commiting to open access publishing for all projects funded by CERN. Recommended oa-platform is SCOAP3.
National Institutes of Health requires all peer-reviewed arcticles of NIH-funded projects to be published within 12 months in PubMed Central.
OpenAIRE is an EC-funded network of more than 700 repositories and OA journals, integrating more than 14 million OA publications and 17000 datasets with 18000 organizations. The portal offers literature-data integration services. The initiative brings together professionals from research libraries, open scholarship organisations, national e-Infrastructure and data experts, IT and legal researchers, showcasing the truly collaborative nature of this pan-European endeavor.
Open Science and Research Initiative
RECODE Policy Recommendations for Open Access to Research Data in Europe
FinnOA A network of people promoting Open Access
Open Knowledge Finland Global community's Finnish branch
FOSTER Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research
OASPA Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
SPARC Europe Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
Budapest Open Access Initiative
Lingoa Linguistics in Open Access (Fair Open Access Network)
PsyOA Psychology and Fair Open Access
Make your research sustainable greener!
Researchers and teachers at the University of Helsinki can order personal librarian to help with Open Access and self-archiving to TUHAT / HELDA.
Please, fill out the form and make an order. If you wish your guidance in Finnish, order here (log in with your UH username and password).
Time will be confirmed later according to your wishes.
♦ Green Open Access: depositing an article or a version of it into the institutional repository. Usually free of charge.
♦ Gold Open Access: publication is immediately provided in oa mode through a high-quality open access publication.The publisher of the oa journal may charge an open access fee (article processing charge).
♦ Hybrid open access: Research articles can be made openly accessible by paying an extra fee in a journal. Journal´s other articles still remain behind a paywall.
♦ Article processing charge (APC) and Book processing charge (BPC) are payments charged by the OA publisher from the author or her/his institution to cover various publishing costs. Both Gold and Hybrid OA based journals can charge APCs.
♦ Embargo: A period of time defined by the publisher, during which the author has no permission to self-archive. Calculated from the publishing date of the original publication.
♦ Double dipping: Institutions (libraries, universities) often have to pay twice for the same content when publishing in hybrid Open Access Journals.
♦ The scientific level of journals can be assessed for instance through Impact factors and through Publication Forum rating.
♦ Impact factors: The journal impact factors are updated annually and can be found from the Clarivate Analytics Journal Citation Reports database. Most of the OA-journals have also an impact factor. You can get more information about impact factors and evaluation in general from Metrics Guide.
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JuFo Search Form - Search journals, conferences and publishers. The search can be targeted at specific fields of research.
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The Scholarly Kitchen
Blog of the Society for Scholarly Publishing.
Peter Suber: Writings on Open Access
Peter Suber is one of the leading authorities on the Open Access movement.
Peter Suber´s Knowledge Unbound: Selected Writings on Open Access, 2002–2011
ACRL TechConnect Blog: Open Access
A moderated blog produced by a group of academic librarians covering innovative projects, emerging tech tools and more.
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