Researcher's guide to responsible and open science

Welcome to the library's researcher and research support guide. In this guide, we have compiled answers to questions you may have at different stages of your research. You will find a table of contents on the left-hand side of the page and links directly to the topics below.

Please contact our service address:

	Contact us for questions related to the TUNICRIS research information system, such as profile maintenance, uploading of publication data.
	Contact us for publication metrics, researcher profiles (including ORCID) and publication evaluation.
	Contact for open access publishing issues, including article support funding, self-archiving, sharing of publications, use of Creative Commons licences for publishing.
	Contact us on issues related to data management, such as planning and design of a data management plan, storage, description, sharing and opening of data, data protection and security, data management services.
	Contact us for information on how to apply for an ISBN.
	Contact us if you are interested in publishing a peer-reviewed monograph or an edited volume.

The Tampere higher education community guidelines

• Tampere University’s Open Science Policy (2024)

• Open science and research in the Tampere higher education community, (2018  concerns TAMK) (PDF)
• TAMK's Open Science Action Plan (only in Finnish) (PDF)

Policies of open science and research in Finland

• Declaration for Open Science and Research 2020–2025
• All open science policies of the National Open Science and Research Coordination (AVOTT)

International policies

• UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, 2021 (PDF)

• Data management Policy for Open Research Infrastructures at Tampere University, 2020 (PDF)
• Open research data and methods. National policy and executive plan.
• The FAIR principles, 2016
• OECD Principles and Guidelines for Access to Research Data from Public Funding, 2007 (PDF)

• Open Access to scholarly publications: Policy component for Open Access to journal and conference articles  (2019)
• Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002)
• cOAlition S Plan S Principles for journal articles (2018)
• cOAlition S Statement on Open Access for academic books (2021)
• Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication (2019)

• DORA (San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, 2012) - The Tampere University has signed the international DORA Declaration.
• CoARA (Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment, 2022) - The Tampere University has signed the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment.

• Good practice in researcher evaluation. Recommendation for the responsible evaluation of a researcher in Finland
• User guide for the Publication Forum classification