Many research funders have an open access policy, where the funder defines how the research project it funds must take into account open access for research publications in its activities. When preparing your funding application, familiarise yourself with the funder's open access policy and guidance on the publication plan.
Check the research funder's up-to-date open science policy and guidance on its own website and on the possible funding decision.
A publication plan must usually be included with a research funding application. The publication plan often asks to describe how the applicant intends to implement the research funder's open access policies when publishing their research results.
Read the funder's call for applications and the related guidance carefully.
When drawing up your publication plan, take into account
Some research funders pay the costs associated with open access publishing when they have been prepared for when applying for research funding. In these situations, take the article processing charges into account in the budget proposal.
During the research process, make sure that your publication activities meet the funder's requirements and recommendations. For example, when choosing a publication channel, find out whether it meets the funder's requirements in terms of open access.
The Research Council of Finland requires the following from peer-reviewed journal articles for projects it has funded partly or fully
A journal that complies with the Plan S principles uses the CC BY 4.0 license and also
Please note that self-archiving a publication in a repository may be the only way to make an article open access in accordance with the Research Council of Finland's policy on open access for scientific publications. It is also possible that the publication channel you have chosen is not Plan S compliant. Before submitting a manuscript to a journal, always make sure that the publication channel you choose complies with the Research Council of Finland's policy if your project is partly or fully funded by the Research Council. The Journal Checker Tool service helps you identify a Plans S-compliant publication channel.
The Research Council's open access policy for scientific publications applies to projects that received a positive funding decision in the call for applications opened after 1.1.2021. The funding conditions attached to the funding decision include a separate section regarding open access for scientific publications.
Before submitting a manuscript to a journal, always make sure that the publication channel you choose complies with the Research Council of Finland's policy if your project is partly or fully funded by the Research Council.
Check the research funder's up-to-date open science policy and guidance on its own website and on the possible funding decision.
The library pays the costs involved in open access publishing for peer-reviewed journal articles in Research Council funded projects when the publication channel complies with the Research Council’s policy. You can also take advantage of the library's agreements with various publishers on open access publishing where there are no fees for researchers, as the agreements comply with the Plan S principles.
The library does not pay any other publishing costs in addition to the article processing charges. OA support funding cannot be applied for e.g. image or page fees, or fees arising from manuscript submission.
Projects that received a positive funding decision in the Research Council of Finland funding calls opened before 1.1.2021 comply with the funding terms in force at the time of the decision. The costs of open access publishing for scientific journal articles in these projects are primarily paid from the funding granted to the project.
Horizon Europe requires the following from peer-reviewed journal articles for projects it funds
Before submitting the manuscript for peer review, make sure that the channel you have selected complies with Horizon Europe's funding terms. The suitability of a scientific journal for Horizon Europe's funding terms can be checked using the Journal Checker Tool service.
Horizon Europe's guidelines for research funding:
Check the research funder's up-to-date open science policy and guidance on its own website and on the possible funding decision.
Research funding granted by Horizon Europe can be used to pay article processing charges for fully open access publication channels. The Journal Checker Tool service provides information on whether the journal's possible APC is something that can be paid from Horizon Europe's funding.
The library pays the article processing charges for peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, monographs, and conference proceedings published in other than fully open access publication channels when the publication channel complies with Horizon Europe's requirements. Remember to take advantage of the agreements made by the library with various publishers where open access publishing is free of charge for the researchers, as well as discounts that are applied to article processing charges.
Open Research Europe is a fully open access publication channel where research articles are published without article processing charges. The publication channel is intended for research publications stemming from projects that have received Horizon 2020 or Horizon Europe funding. You can also publish there when the relevant Horizon project has already ended. Open Research Europe meets Horizon Europe's requirements for open access publishing, and it uses open peer review.
According to the Plan S principles published by the cOAlition S consortium established by research funders, research publications must be immediately open access and available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY) license. The journal used must also comply with the Plan S principles. The Research Council of Finland is one of the members of cOAlition S, and its policy on open access for scientific publications takes into account the Plan S principles.
Research funders' open science policies can be searched in the Sherpa Juliet service.
