Open science and research news
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Overview of Aalto's open access publications 2022
In 2022, Aalto’s researchers published more publications open access than ever before. The overview of the year 2023 will be published by the end of February 2024.
Staff Scientist Mika Jalava promotes RDM in his research group
Jalava uses his background as an Aalto Data Agent in his new role.
What’s new in ACRIS
ACRIS, Aalto University Research Information System, is constantly being developed.
Datasets of Aalto University researchers are collected to ACRIS
Data Monitor tool integrated to ACRIS research information system harvests research data, software, and code of Aalto University’s researchers from more than 2000 repositories. If we missed your published data, software, or code, please let us know! Openness of data will be considered in the Open Science Monitoring in 2024.
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Register for training in research data management and open science in spring 2023
Registration is open for the spring 2023 training!
Re-evaluation of Publication Forum (JUFO) levels 2 and 3 completed
The Publication Forum (JUFO) panels decided on a total of about 1500 new upgrades to levels 2 and 3. The classification of book publishers will tighten from 2024.
Increase your visibility by creating a profile on the national Research.fi portal (beta)
The new profile tool of Research.fi portal is open for beta access. You can choose what information you want to display in your profile from ORCID, your home organization and research outputs in Research.fi.
Aalto University’s open science monitoring results are in line with most of the other Finnish universities
Open science coordination arranged the first monitoring of open science and research activities and services in 2022. In addition, the costs of scientific publishing for 2021 were collected.
Quality together – University supports open access in science and research
Support, training and information available for researchers on open science practices
How can the Aalto Data Agents help you?
Data Agents extend Aalto University's data support services with discipline-specific expertise.
Open Science requirements of Horizon Europe focus on immediate open access and licenses
Publishing with an embargo or self-archiving without a CC license no longer meet the requirements of Horizon Europe. In addition, only the publication fees of fully open access journals are accepted as project costs. New open access requirements apply to funding calls opened 1.1.2021 onwards.
Maintenance break in ACRIS on 18 October 2022
Maintenance break in ACRIS in October from 10am to 8pm.
New ACRIS activities categories for recording the achievements of Aalto’s researchers
Activities categories in ACRIS have been updated.
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New and improved ACRIS instructions were published
Instructions pages were reorganized to make finding instructions related to different content types easier.
New open access agreement with ACM
Publish open access in ACM journals and proceedings without APC fee
The Most Downloaded Open Access Publications in research.aalto.fi portal
Aalto University's research portal, research.aalto.fi, offers a free open access publication platform. The list of the most downloaded open access articles will be updated once a year.
