Image adapted from the How to be an open researcher image on the Council of Australian University Libraries website (CC BY 4.0, Open Research Toolkit).
Conduct research responsibly
- Follow and comply with the principles of responsible research, responsible conduct of research, and research ethics.
- Be mindful of responsible conduct throughout the research process in all your activities.
Comply with open research policy
- Recognise the key policies for open and responsible research.
- Follow the open science and research policies of the Tampere Universities community as well as the key national and international open science and research policies.
- Pay attention to the open science recommendations of funders and publishers.
Make your outputs FAIR
- Make sure that the data, methods, and research outputs of your research are FAIR, i.e. findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.
- Take FAIR into account already at the planning stage of the research project.
Apply the CARE principles
- If necessary, pay attention to the CARE principles that define the rights of indigenous peoples to research data.
- Always give local communities and indigenous peoples the right to decide on the use of research data that concerns them.
- Follow the ethical principles of research throughout the research process.
Use Creative Commons licenses
- License your research outputs, such as publications, research data, and metadata with Creative Commons licenses.
- A CC license allows you to define how others are permitted to use your work.
Ensure your work has a persistent identifier
- Favour publication channels that provide a unique, permanent identifier for research outputs such as publications, research data, metadata, and code.
- A persistent identifier facilitates the discoverability, citability, and reuse of research outputs.
- By using the ORCID researcher identifier, you ensure that your research output is linked to you.
Make your outputs openly accessible
- Self-archive both your peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed publications in the higher education community’s institutional repositories.
- By self-archiving, you ensure the openness and digital preservation of your publications.
- Make use of the agreements made by the Library when publishing open access.
Make your data openly accessible
- Make sure your research data is as findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) as possible.
- When making data open access, follow the principle of “as open as possible, as closed as necessary”.
- Plan the opening of your data already at the planning stage of the research project.
Make your code openly accessible
- Always publish source code and software open access when necessary.
- Publish code and software in a service that issues a persistent identifier. This allows you to cite your code and software in publications.
- License your code and software.
Maintain your current awareness
- Stay up to date with the latest issues and developments in responsible and open research.
