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Calls opened after 1 January 2021 

Applicants must include a publication plan and a description of measures to ensure open access as part of their research plan.

1. Peer-reviewed articles shall be made immediately open access under open licenses
   • CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC0 or CC BY-ND
2. Peer-reviewed articles must be deposited to a trusted repository that guarantees long-term storage and free open access to the publication (ACRIS/Aaltodoc in Aalto University)
   • Personal websites and databases, publisher websites, as well as cloud storage services, Academia.edu, ResearchGate etc. are not considered as trusted repositories.

Research Council of Finland also urges researchers to publish conference articles and monographs with open access.

Options for open access publishing

1. Publish article in an open access journal under a CC BY license
2. Publish article in a subscription journal under a CC BY license by using Aalto's open access agreements
   • Peer-reviewed articles produced in RCF-funded projects may not be published using the so-called hybrid model, where individual articles published in subscription journals are made open access on payment.
3. Publish article non-open access in a subscription journal and self-archive the peer-reviewed manuscript open access in a trusted repository (ACRIS/Aaltodoc in Aalto University) under a CC BY license
   • Aalto University has adopted a prior licence model (Rights Retention Strategy, RRS) that enables self-archiving and immediate open access of peer-reviewed manuscripts under a CC license required by the funder, regardless of any restrictions set by the publisher.
   • More information: Self-archiving | Aalto University.

Calls opened before 1 January 2021 

Open access of peer-reviewed scientific articles is required, but embargoes (publication delay periods) are allowed:

• Humanities and social sciences: 12 months
• Other fields: 6 months 

Calls opened after 1 January 2021 

• Open access fees of open access journals can be covered by basic funding / included in the overheads of sites of research. Please consult your department controllers in advance regarding the fee.
• Aalto's open access agreements may cover the open access fees.

Calls opened before 1 January 2021 

• Open access fees (article processing charges, APC fees) may be included in the research costs of the project.
• Aalto's open access agreements may cover the open access fees.

• The research data must be opened whenever possible.
• Research data shall be managed and made available following the FAIR principles.
• It is possible not to open the research data, if there is a justified reason for that, for example if the data contains trade secrets or if there is personal data that cannot be anonymized. If the data cannot be published, create a description of your data and publish the metadata in a data archive/finder. In Aalto the suitable system is ACRIS.
• In case the research data can be exploited by commercialization, it may be possible to open the data after the commercialization activities. Read more on commercialization and opening the research results: Publishing and commercialization, can I have both? 

• Scientific publications and research data produced with RCF funding must always indicate that the research has been conducted with funding from the Research Council of Finland. The number of the funding decision must also be mentioned. 
• Publications produced with funding from the Strategic Research Council (SRC) must always include the number of the funding decision and a mention of the fact that the research has been conducted with funding from the Strategic Research Council established within the Research Council of Finland. 
• If the publication or data are electronic, the acknowledgement must be included in the metadata.

1. After a positive funding decision, you must write the a data management plan (DMP)
   • See below for guides and Research Council of Finland DMP templates.
   • Aalto's general guidance on Data Management Plans.
   • Help and guidance are available from researchdata@aalto.fi.
   • The consortium has a joint data management plan, and only the consortium PI will submit the plan when approving the funding.
2. Send the DMP to researchdata@aalto.fi for review in Word format
3. Research Services must accept the DMP before it can be submitted to the Research Council of Finland. The acceptance will be given by e-mail after Research Services has reviewed the DMP.
4. Submit the final accepted DMP to the Research Council of Finland SARA system and accept the funding in SARA.

1. Guide for Data Management Plan (.pdf)
2. Data Management Plan template (.docx)
3. Data Management Table example for DMP (.docx)

1. Guide for Research Infrastructure Data Management Policy (.pdf)
2. Template for Research Infrastructure Policy (.docx)