Results of Monitoring on Open Science and Research in Finland: Perspective of the UAS Sector

Federation of Finnish Learned Societies and IT Center for Science have published open data on monitoring the implementation of open science policies in Finnish universities and research organisations. This talk introduces the monitoring results in the context of Universities of Applied Sciences in Finland (UAS).

The monitoring revealed that Finnish UASs are committed to the Declaration of Open Science and Research and have worked to promote open science practices in national and organisational level. The monitoring was based on various indicators and survey targeted to research organisations. A five-level model to determine the degree of openness (1-5) was created based on the key indicators and the number of points given.

In overall assessments of openness 39% of UAS were on the highest level (level 5) and 39% on the level 4, only three organisations were on the level 3 and two on level 2. Besides that, organisational open science and research profile – a set of organisational degrees of openness was calculated based on open science and research indicators in four areas: culture for open scholarship, open access to scholarly publications, open access of research data and methods, and open education and open access to educational resources.