Principles of Open Science
In our research actions and activities, as well as in publishing and opening research outputs, we are committed to the guidelines for the responsible conduct of research and for handling allegations of misconduct published by the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity (TENK).
We have signed the Declaration for Open Science and Research 2020–2025 and are committed to
- promote openness as a fundamental value throughout the research community and its activities
- strengthen societal knowledgebase and innovation
- improve the quality of scientific and artistic research outputs and the educational resources based on them, and the fluid mobility and impact of research outputs throughout society.
As a signee of the DORA declaration and as a member of CoARA, we are committed to advancing development of responsible research assessment.
We build and develop our open science services and activities in compliance with the abovementioned national and international guidelines.
The University recommends that
- all researchers create an ORCID identifier, make active use of it, and link it to their profile in the University of Lapland’s research portal LaCRIS.
- open research outputs be licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0.
The University provides to members of the university community training, guidance and support with questions related to open science.
Actions and activities that promote open science and research are part of a researcher’s skill set, and the University values and supports such efforts. They give researchers academic merit and they are considered in recruitment and in assessing career development.
Library’s guide: Responsible Research Evaluation
Contact us:
research.library (at) ulapland.fi
Publication policy
- Our research results are published in high-quality national and international science and art publications and in appropriate channels intended for professionals and the general public.
- Research outputs produced at the University of Lapland will, whenever possible, be self-archived in the University of Lapland’s institutional repository Lauda in accordance with the publisher’s conditions, and in compliance with the author’s copyrights. It is the author’s responsibility to obtain the necessary licenses and permits. Self-archiving also applies to publications that have been published open access.
- The University encourages researchers to publish their work in high-quality full open access journals if available in the discipline or field of art concerned. Reuse of published work should not be limited unless necessary.
- The University does not recommend hybrid publishing, where an author’s work is published in a subscription-based journal and individual articles are opened by paying Article Processing Charges (APC).
- Costs of open access publishing are covered by the faculties, units, and research projects. In case of projects funded by the Research Council of Finland, the costs of open access publishing are covered from overheads.
- Costs of open access publishing must be considered when making research and financing plans.
- Publications produced at the University of Lapland, including theses and doctoral dissertations, are, as a rule, open and the University recommends that they be licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0.
- Members of the university community ensure that their research and artistic outputs are entered into the University of Lapland’s Research Portal LaCRIS.
- Authors are responsible for assessing the quality and impact of their chosen publication channel. The Lapland University Consortium Library will provide support and guidance in conducting the assessment.
Library’s guide: Open Access Publishing
Data Policy
- At the University of Lapland, research data related to publicly funded published research is, as a rule, open and available for reuse. The principle ‘as open as possible and as closed as necessary’ informs opening of research data at our university.
- When opening research data, we consider agreements, research ethical principles, information security, data protection, legal requirements, funder requirements, the best interest of the university community and the research participants, information sensitivity, and commercial interests.
- The University requires researchers to make a research data management plan during the research planning phase. The plan will be updated and revised when necessary during the research process.
- Research datasets are deposited and opened in a reliable discipline- or field-specific data repository or archive that provides a permanent identifier for the dataset and makes it possible to refer to the data in question.
- The University requires researchers to enter the metadata concerning research datasets in the University of Lapland’s Research Portal LaCRIS.
- Ownership, user rights, terms of use, and authorship of research datasets should be agreed on as early as possible.
- Research projects are required to include data management costs in the project’s financing plan.
- Responsible research data management is generally informed by the FAIR principles, according to which research data and the related metadata should be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.
- It is the responsibility of the members of the university community to familiarize themselves with the guidelines and instructions for research data management and opening of data, as well as to plan and implement research data management in their own scientific and artistic work.
- The University is responsible for creating the preconditions for implementing responsible research data management, providing guidelines and instructions for research data management, and providing training and support.
Library’s guide: Open Research Data
Open education and open educational resources
The guidelines are common to the University of Lapland and the Lapland University of Applied Sciences
- We encourage teachers to publish educational resources and organize open online teaching. We use strategic actions to support teaching that aims for full openness.
- We require that educational resources and other digital content comply with accessibility requirements.
- It is the responsibility of the openers of the teaching and educational resources to ensure that they have the necessary rights to publish the resources (e.g. copyright).
- We recommend publishing educational resources using a Creative Commons attribution licence – CC BY. If necessary, a non-commercial use or share-alike element can be added.
- The recommended format for a licence is: © [Author Name], [Name of the organization], [year], CC BY.
- We require that all those who have made a significant contribution to the educational resources, including students, must be properly acknowledged.
- We recommend using the national Library of Open Educational Resources for opening educational resources.
Library’s guide: Open Education and Open Educational Resources