Student's guide to responsible and open science: Copyright and ethics

Responsible conduct of research:

• Ethical review of research, research permissions and research integrity in Tampere higher education community.
• Privacy notice templates (like information sheet or consent form) on the intranet.
• For more information on informing subjects, see also the Data Management Guidelines provided by The Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD).

Ethical committees of the Tampere region:

• Ethics Committee of the Tampere region provides ethical reviews on non-medical research in the field of the human sciences.
• The Regional Ethics Committee of Tampere University Hospital provides ethical reviews of medical research conducted on humans, human embryos and foetuses in the Pirkanmaa, Kanta-Häme, Päijät-Häme and South Ostrobothnia Hospital Districts.

Responsible Research portal

The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity (PDF)

See the guidelines for writing a thesis in your faculty, unit or subject (intranet). TAMK students can consult the Instructions for Written Work guide on the intranet. 

With reference management software, you can save and organize your references and automatically create citations and bibliographies in your text.

For more information, see library's guide Reference management .

Student: Always check the citation style used in your thesis with your supervisor or from your department.

In ImagOA - Open Science and Use of Images Guide you will find information about (for example)

• how to cite images  
• a selection of image databases
• Creative Commons licenses
• permitted uses of images in theses, teaching material etc.
• how to use images in social media
• photographs as personal information  

Set the terms of use for your publications under a Creative Commons licence.

With the Creative Commons copyright licenses you can share your copyright and make your work open for users. Using a Creative Commons licence does not mean you have to give up your rights, but that you give other people the right to use your work according to the conditions you have stipulated.

• Fully Open Access or hybrid journal articles are often published under Creative Commons licenses. In some cases it is the authors who choose under which CC license  the article will be published.
• All Creative Commons licenses requires that the authors are credited.
• The CC0 license is used when the creators need no credit. This is the reason why CC0 is not used in scientific publications.
• More information about CC licenses.
• Check out or make your own cc license.

Use a licence for your research data to enable a better open process for the whole research lifecycle.

Creative Commons license selection process is based on Tarmo Toikkanen's image, 2014, CC0, and inspired by ImagOA - Open Science and Use of Images guide by Jenni Mikkonen, Mari Pesola, Maria Rehbinder, Marika Sarvilahti, Metropolia, Valovirta Design, Jorgos Hatzikelis, Ulla Timonen ja Mikko Multanen.