Open access (OA) publications can be articles, journals, books, theses, reports, etc. On this page, you will find information sources (repositories, search services) where you can search for different types of OA publications. You will also find tips on effective searching methods (e.g. browser extensions). For open access publications, it is important to assess their reliability and scientific quality.
Tieteellisten seurain valtuuskunnan tarjoamassa palvelussa kotimaiset tieteelliset seurat voivat toimittaa ja julkaista lehtiään. Suurin osa lehdistä on välittömästi avoimia eli heti ilmestyttyään ilmaiseksi luettavissa. Osa tulee avoimiksi viiveajan jälkeen.
The service, provided by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies, allows Finnish scientific societies to submit and publish their journals. Majority of the journals are available immediately after publishing, some after an embargo.
Thesis from other Finnish universities in electronic form can be found in each university's own institutional repository.
Preprint refers to the first submitted manuscript version of an article that has not yet been peer reviewed. Preprint enables the quick publication of research results and comments from the scientific community to improve the quality of the manuscript. Preprint publishing is important in fields of science where the publishing processes of scientific journals takes a long time or where new research is produced in a rapid cycles. A preprint can increase the visibility and impact of publications and research and reach readers who do not have access to subscription-based scientific journals. Publishers often take a positive stand to publishing preprints in a preprint repository and may even recommend using a specific preprint repository.
Preprint repositories were initially established mainly for natural and medical disciplines, nowadays they are available in almost all disciplines. Examples of preprint repositories:
Browser extensions (add-ons) help you find openly available versions of articles. Most add-ons work in different browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Internet Explorer, etc.). For example, you can download one of the ones below.
More information on Federation of Finnish Learned Societies' peer-reviewed label.
Are you looking for support for your learning, your studies or do you want to develop your skills? You can make use of various open libraries of learning materials, where you can search for materials by subject, discipline or type of material.
