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Open science promotes practices that bring research knowledge more largely available to researchers and all other interested parties, making it easier for them to contribute to research. A central aim is open access to research outcomes, such as research publications, materials and methods.

The ministry collected openness-related data from universities previously in 2016, when JYU reached level 4. The maturity level of open science and research is described, for example, by the promotion of open access and use of scientific publications by means of policies and principles, the utilisation of open source code and open standards, high-quality documentation of research processes, and growing competences related to open access.

Openness is pivotal in the strategy of JYU

The ranking reviewed the openness of science in four different areas: strategic steering, policies and principles, the support and monitoring of openness, and the development of openness-related competences. The ranking was based both on publicly available information about the research organisations and on a separate survey. JYU got full points both for strategy work and for competence development.

“The result reflects the University’s new strategy, in which openness has gained more importance,” says Head of Research Development Timo Taskinen.

The Open Science Centre of the Ģ��ֱ�� has played a key role in developing the openness culture both at the University and in national working groups.

“Competence development was a whole new assessment area. It is great that JYU reached top scores in this domain,” says Taskinen.

The results of the maturity ranking also comprise a list of recommendations as to how the effectiveness of open science should be further increased in each university. These include, for example, training on how to interpret research results and increase their effectiveness. According to the recommendations, it is necessary that researcher and services can reserve time for interpreting research results and scientific publications for shared use. The guidelines of open science must be defined uniformly across the academic community, which calls for cooperation between universities and financers.
“Focus on researchers”, a research development programme of the Ģ��ֱ��, guides the implementation of the recommendations for open science as well as the development of services provided for researchers. For a researcher, open science offers an opportunity to increase the visibility of one’s own research and, through new open-access research data, discover novel scientific perspectives.

Further information:

Head of Research Development Timo Taskinen, Research and Innovation Services, JYU, tel. 0400 648 504, timo.taskinen@jyu.fi

Service Manager Irene Ylönen, Open Science Centre, JYU, tel. 050 428 5259, irene.ylonen@jyu.fi