Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication

Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication was launched in April 2019 by Federation of Finnish Learned Societies, Committee for Public Information, Finnish Association for Scholarly Publishing, Universities Norway & European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7887059

This presentation includes the main recommendations of the Helsinki Initiative, evidence of multilingual schoarly and science communication practices, global journal landscape and language biases in assessment, policy work recognizing the importance of multilingualism in open science and responsible research assessment, and key take-aways.