1. Open Access Journals in Finland Infrastructure and funding
Pekka Olsbo
Oulu University Library

2. University of Oulu Linnanmaa campus, Oulu Kontinkangas campus, Oulu Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory Oulanka Research Station, Kuusamo Kajaani University Consortium Kokkola University Consortium Kerttu Saalasti Institute, Nivala Summer University of Northern Ostrobothnia Oulu, Kuusamo, Pyhäjärvi, Raahe, Ylivieska
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3. Linnanmaa Campus - City of science and innovation
6 Faculties under the same roof
4 Focus Institutes, Thule Institute
Tellus Innovation Arena
Botanical Gardens
Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE)
Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE)
Teacher Training School
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Technopolis
Finnish Food Safety Authority (Evira)
Oulu University of Applied Sciences will move into the same campus in 2020
Student housing
University leadership and services
Nostoja?
Student housing
Student housing
Sports hall Ice skating rink
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4. Contents Publishing activity of Finnish Universities
OA situation in Finland
OA-journals in Finland
Infrastructure for OA-publishing, journal.fi
Funding of OA-journals in Finland
Conclusions: how to ensure the change to open publishing environment and at same time make sure that learned societies can survive.
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5. Publishing activity of Finnish universities - numbers
In 2018 Finnish universities reported publications to the Ministry of Education and Culture.
Out of publications 2/3 published abroad and 1/3 in Finland.
peer reviewed journal articles.
Out of journal articles were published abroad, only in Finland.
(all data from Juuli-portal: )
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6. Publishing activity of Finnish universities - languages
From the total number of publications 64 % were written in English.
25 % in Finnish
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7. Publishing activity of Finnish universities - languages
From the peer reviewed journal articles 81 % were written in English.
8 % in Finnish
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8. Publishing activity of Finnish universities - languages, fields of science
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9. World wide development in natural sciences and social sciences.
(Ammon 2012)
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10. Picture from:
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11. Open Access in Finnish universities
Growth of Open Access has been fast in Finnish universities:
Openness of peer reviewed articles
,9 %
,7 %
,9 %
Open Access in a combination of three OA: OA total
gold 47 % (24 %)
green 31 % (42 %)
hybrid 22 % (11 %)
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12. Open Access in Finnish universities - best universities
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13. Open Access journals in Finland
In Finland 106 Open Access Journals (Björk 2019, doi: /leap.1231)
In Finnish Publication Forum list Finnish scientific journals.
About 30 % of Finnish scientific journals are Open Access.
In 2018, researchers in Finnish universities produced peer reviewed articles in Finnish publication series.
43 % of articles are Open Access.
1148 research articles in Finnish journals.
55 % Open Access (gold, green or other)
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14. National infrastructure for Open Access journals:
Journal.fi opened in January Based on OJS-software (Open Journals System)
Federation of Finnish Learned Societies takes care of maintenance, development, training and information sharing and also PR (funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture)
Some statistics
75 journals and yearbooks (close to 60 OA without embargo)
2 700 issues published
articles published
Articles opened times since opening
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15. Journal.fi Infrastructure Graph by Antti-Jussi Nygård 7/13/2019
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16. Funding of Finnish scientific journals – and Open Access journals
Characteristics of Finnish scholarly publishing environment:
Most Finnish journals are published by small scholarly societies
Most of the journals operate with very little money
The main sources of income for the journals have been subscriptions, membership fees and state subsidy
Individual subscribers and society membership fees have been very important for many journals
State subsidy is distributed by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies, with more than €600,000 a year allocated to journals
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17. Funding of Finnish scientific journals – and Open Access journals
Characteristics of Finnish scholarly publishing environment:
The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies collects data on the policies and financial situation of each journal applying for a subsidy. For the 90 or so journals receiving state subsidy, the total budget is about of €2 million a year. State subsidy about 1/3 of the total budget of journals.
About 48% of the journals get by with less than €10,000 a year, and almost 70% with less than €20,000. The journals with a budget of less than €20,000 often rely on unpaid work, and if the journal has a print version, most of its budget goes on the printing and distribution costs.
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18. The revenues of 94 Finnish scholarly journals in 2015
The revenues of 94 Finnish scholarly journals in Graph from Ilva, J. 2018,
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19. How to find a sustainable solution for OA turn of Finnish peer-reviewed journals?
Technical solution, OJS and Journal.fi:
Needs also funding
Monograph.fi also needed
Technical maintenance, development, support and training
Finances for publishers
How to compensate loss of sales: subscriptions, member fees etc.? Will there be any losses?
Funding should be for immediate open access only
APC?
Consortium funding?
Kotilava-project alreary tried to create a model for consortium funding – Some of the potential members of consortium showed green light but eventually it was rejected.
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20. The pressure for finding a national solution for Open Access is growing. But national languages and locally important research must be kept alive!
Important questions:
Research funders demand immediate openness (Plan S, Academy of Finland), will there be any authors left submitting articles to national journals, if journals don´t turn fully open?
Will national publishers and learned societies survive in fully open publishing environment?
Where will the money come from when there´s no paying subscribers?
In Finland, the government is not willing to fund publishers no more than they already do. Will we find a common understanding inside the scholarly community?
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21. Keeping national languages alive
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22. Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication #InAllLanguages
"In all languages" campaign is a wake-up call for policy-makers, leaders, universities, research institutions, research funders, libraries, and researchers to promote multilingualism in scholarly communication. Participate by posting in Twitter or Facebook a statement or video of your or your colleagues' support for multilingualism in scholarly communication.
The Founding signatories are:
The Committee for Public Information in Finland
European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (ENRESSH)
Federation of Finnish Learned Societies
The Finnish Association for Scholarly Publishing
Universities Norway
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23. Thank You. Contact pekka. olsbo@oulu
Thank You! Contact Gredits Thanks to Jyrki Ilva, Janne Pölönen, Antti-Jussi Nygård and Emanuel Kulczycki
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