1. Open Science and Research Initiative in Finland and Services for Research Data Management
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2. Open Science and Research Initiative 2014-2017
Ministry of Education and Culture initiative for the promotion of information availability and open science
Goal to make Finland a leading country in openness of science and research
Scope of the initiative includes publications, research data, and methods
Provides researchers with practical knowledge in how they as individuals can implement open science
Several services offered by the Ministry to researchers

3. Open Science and Research vision
Open research leads to surprising discoveries and creative insights
Reinforcing the intrinsic nature of science and research
Strenthening openness-related expertise
Ensuring a stable foundation for the research process
Increasing the social impact of research

4. Open Science and Research services
Open Science and Research Handbook, Data management guide
Services
Etsin research data finder
IDA research data storage service
AVAA open data publishing platform
Aila data service portal
Language Bank of Finland
Doria & Theseus publication archives
FINTO ontology service

5. Research lifecycle and Open Science services
Planning
Implementation
Storage
Publishing
Discovery
Reuse
Open Science and Research Handbook
Data management guide and checklist

6. Etsin is a research data finder service
Etsin forms a metadata catalogue for research data
Provides an URN identifier for data sets
Enables meriting researchers based on datasets
Independent of storage services, contains only metadata
Offers information on possibility of reuse of data
etsin.avointiede.fi

7. Research data storage for projects in Finnish universities, universities of applied sciences and the Academy of Finland
Secure storage procedures with data replication
Open source iRODS technology, several user interfaces
Data owner decides on the openness and data usage policy
Will form part of the long-term preservation system of data
avointiede.fi/ida

8. AVAA is a platform for publishing open research data
Enhances accessibility of research data in a reusable format
Offers generic and specialized applications for utilizing data, e.g. download, analysis and visualizations
Independent of data storage location
Pilot cases of research data sets and related access tools under devopment in the portal
avointiede.fi/avaa

9. Aila
Aila provides access to datasets archived at the Finnish Social Science Data Archive and their study descriptions in Finnish and English
All users can browse and search data, read study descriptions and download open access data
By registering, users can download data which have access conditions, free of charge
Haka authentication possible
services.fsd.uta.fi

10. Language Bank of Finland
Language Bank of Finland is a collection of services for language research by the FIN-CLARIN consortium
The services consist of an extensive array of text and speech corpora as well as applications to study them in a potent computational environment
Research units deposit their data in the Language Bank for maintenance and distribution to researchers around the country

11. Publication archive services
Technical platform for the preservation, cataloguing and distribution of digital collections, for publication archive use
Doria is a multi-institutional repository including records from universities and the National Library
Theseus is an institutional repository platform for the Finnish universities of applied sciences
Based on open source DSpace software

12. FINTO
Finto is a Finnish thesaurus and ontology service maintained by the National Library
The service enables both the publication and browsing of vocabularies
The service also offers interfaces for integrating the thesauri and ontologies into other applications and systems
finto.fi
api.finto.fi

13. More information and contacts
Service websites
Service overview
openscience.fi/services
Open science contact address