References and further reading

Open and responsible science – general principles, guidelines and services

• ALLEA All European Academies. 2017. The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity.
• Chiware, E.R.T. & Skelly, L. 2022. Open Science in Africa: What policymakers should consider. Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics 7: 950139.
• Coordination for Open Science, Publication Forum, The Committee for Public Information (TJNK), and Finnish National Board on Research Integrity (TENK). Responsible Research – Promoting responsible research at the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies. Publications, news and events.
• Fecher, B. & Friesike, S. 2014. Open Science: One Term, Five Schools of Thought. In: Bartling, S. & Friesike, S. (eds). Opening Science. Springer, Cham.
• Finnish National Board on Research Integrity (TENK). 2019. The ethical principles of research with human participants and ethical review in the human sciences in Finland.
• Finnish National Board on Research Integrity (TENK). 2023. The Finnish Code of Conduct for Research Integrity and Procedures for Handling Alleged Violations of Research Integrity in Finland.
• FOSTER consortium. FOSTER Open Science courses. Currently available on OpenPlato.
• Masuzzo, P. & Martens, L. 2017. Do you speak open science? Resources and tips to learn the language. PeerJ Preprints 5.
• Mežinska, S., Neiders, I. & Rubene, Z. ENERI Classroom: Responsible Open Science. ROSiE training materials.
• Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland. Finnish Open Science Online Resource. Findocnet.
• Morais, R. et al. 2021. From principles to practices: Open Science at Europe’s universities. 2020-2021 EUA Open Science Survey results. European University Association.
• Open Science Coordination in Finland, The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies. 2025. The Declaration for Open Science and Research 2025–2030.
• Pontika, N. 2015. Open Access: What’s in it for me as an early career researcher? Journal of Science Communication 14(4).
• Pontika, N. 2017. Open Science: tools and platforms. SlideShare.
• Research.fi. Search for information on research in Finland.
• Resnik, D. 2020. What is ethics in research & why is it important? National Institute of Environmental Health Science.
• UNESCO. 2021. UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science.
• University of Eastern Finland (UEF). 2024. UEF Open Science and Research Policy.
• ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics. Open Science Tools Catalogue.

Citizen science

• Aisling, I. 2018. No PhDs needed: how citizen science is transforming research. Nature 562: 480-482.
• CitieS Health project. CitieS Health Citizen Science toolkit.
• Duke, M. 2012. How to Write a Lay Summary. DCC How-to Guides. Edinburgh, DCC.
• ECSA – European Citizen Science Association.
• Pettibone, L. et al. 2016. Citizen science for all – A guide for citizen science practitioners. Bürger Schaffen Wissen (GEWISS) publication. German Centre for integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig; Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Museum für Naturkunde (MfN) – Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin.
• Stilund Hansen, J. (ed.) 2021. Citizen Science Skilling for Library Staff, Researchers and the Public. In: Citizen Science for Research Libraries – A Guide. The LIBER Citizen Science Working Group.
• Svahn, E., Rabb, V. & Rosti, T. 2022. Kansalaistieteen opas tutkijalle (Citizen science guide for a researcher, only in Finnish). National Open Science and Research Coordination, Federation of Finnish Learned Societies.
• Tweddle, J.C. et al. 2012. Guide to citizen science: developing, implementing and evaluating citizen science to study biodiversity and the environment in the UK. Natural History Museum and NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology for UK-EOF.
• Veeckman, C. et al. 2023. D3.3. Citizen Science Starter Kit (Online Citizen Science Training Materials) (Version 3). Zenodo.
• Vohland, K. et al. (Eds.). 2021. The science of citizen science. Springer Nature.

Open access publishing

• Aponte, J. 2018. Predatory Publishing and Organizers: What Scholars in Academia Need to Know. Hispanic Health Care International 16(2): 54–55.
• Björk, B.-C., Kanto-Karvonen, S. & Harviainen, T. 2020. How Frequently Are Articles in Predatory Open Access Journals Cited. MDPI Publications 8(2): 17–.
• Brainard, J. 2020. Articles in “predatory” journals receive few or no citations. Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 367(6474): 129–.
• Grudniewicz, A. et al. 2019. Predatory journals: No definition, no defence. Nature (London), 576(7786): 210–212.
• IOP Publishing. 2016. Ten questions for authors to consider when publishing on an open access basis.
• Kearney, M. 2015. Predatory Publishing: What Authors Need to Know. Research in Nursing & Health, 38(1): 1–3.
• Linna, A.-K., Pylvänäinen, E. & Pölönen, J. 2023. Diamond future of open access. Publication Forum News.
• Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland. Finnish Open Science Online Resource – Open Access. Findocnet.
• Ross-Hellauer, T. 2017. What is open peer review? A systematic review. F1000 Research 6: 588–588.
• Ross-Hellauer, T., Deppe, A. & Schmidt, B. 2017. Survey on open peer review: Attitudes and experience amongst editors, authors and reviewers. PloS One 12(12): e0189311–e0189311.
• Schmidt, B. et al. 2018. Ten considerations for open peer review. F1000Research 2018(7): 969.
• Wolfram, D. et al. 2020. Open peer review: promoting transparency in open science. Scientometrics 125: 1033-1051.
• Xia, J. et al. 2015. Who publishes in “predatory” journals? Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 66(7): 1406–1417.

Open data

• CESSDA Training Team (2017–2022). CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide. Guide for social science researchers who are in an early stage of practising research data management. Bergen, Norway: CESSDA ERIC.
• Digital Curation Centre (DCC). Disciplinary metadata. Search metadata standards by discipline.
• Laine, H. 2018. Tracing data: Data citation roadmap for Finland. Finnish Committee for Research Data (FCRD).
• Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland. Finnish Open Science Online Resource – Open data. Findocnet.
• Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD). Data Management Guidelines.
• Fuchs, S. & Kuusiniemi, M.E. 2018. Making a research project understandable – Guide for data documentation (1.2). Zenodo.
• OpenAIRE. Guiding you in Open Science. Guides for researchers.
• Elixir. The Research Data Management toolkit for Life Sciences.

Open education

• Inamorato Dos Santos, A., Punie, Y. & Castaño Muñoz, J. 2016. Opening up Education: A Support Framework for Higher Education Institutions. EUR 27938. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.
• Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland. Finnish Open Science Online Resource – Open education. Findocnet.
• Open Science Coordination in Finland, Federation of Finnish Learned Societies. 2022. Open education and educational resources. National policy and executive plan by the higher education and research community for 2021–2025. Policy components 1 (Open access to educational resources) and 2 (Open educational practices). Helsinki: The Committee for Public Information (TJNK) and Federation of Finnish Learned Societies (TSV). Responsible research series 18:2022, 4th volume.
• UNESCO. 2019. Recommendation on Open Educational Resources (OER). Paris: General Conference 40th Session.

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