Co-created by the research community, the new Declaration defines the guiding principles, vision, and shared commitments for responsible open science — encouraging organisations to actively engage with them.

Collaborative research projects between elevator manufacturer KONE and Tampere University have resulted in doctoral dissertations, scientific articles, and popular texts for wider audiences with impact that reaches across society.

The rise of article processing charges (APCs) for open access scholarly articles has also attracted fraudsters. Responsible research assessment and free open access publishing could help eliminate incentives for dishonest practices.

The updated user guide takes into account the new recommendations for responsible research assessment and prohibit the use of the Publication Forum classification in the evaluation of individual researchers.

A draft version of the FIN-CAM (Finnish Career Assessment Matrix) assessment tool, designed for the diverse assessment of individual researchers, is open for comments until Feb 7th.

The Criteria for a Good Knowledge Base and How to Become a Citizen Scientist: A Beginner's Gudie have been translated to Swedish and English.

Open Science is one of the key aims of European science policy. Increasing openness of research outputs is supported by recommendations and regulations.

The 2024 Open Science and Research (OS) monitoring results indicate a significant commitment from Finnish research organisations towards promoting openness.

The Publication Forum steering group appointed new panels for the term 2025-2028 on 30 September 2024. A total of 294 experts were selected for the panels.