Aalto Open Science Award Winner 2023 – Aalto Materials Digitalization Platform (AMAD)
We interviewed the AMAD team, winners of the first Aalto Open Science Award.
Open science and research
Open science and research
Open science is an important way to promote science and ensure that it will benefit the whole society and enable collaboration and innovation.
Aalto University supports open science in its research community and by doing so aims at gaining the benefits of openness: the societal impact of research increases, the speed of innovation grows, the high quality and transparency of science are ensured, and research results are openly accessible in helping to solve global problems.
Open Science support contacts
Aalto Open Science Award 2023
Aalto Open Science Award Honorary Mention 2023 – Professor Riikka Puurunen leads by example to foster sustainable open science
We interviewed professor Riikka Puurunen, head of Catalysis research group at the School of Chemical Engineering, who received an honorary mention in the first Aalto Open Science Award.
Aalto Open Science Award Third Place Awardee 2023 – Intelligent Robotics Research Group with the Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects project
We interviewed the Intelligent Robotics Research Group with the Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects project, 3rd place awardees of the first Aalto Open Science Award.
Open science and research policy & results
Aalto University Open Science and Research Policy
The goals of open science are responsible research and societal impact.
Open science means open access to scientific publications, research data, methods, software codes, educational resources, and infrastructures. It is a key instrument for increasing the impact of the research conducted at Aalto University.
Aalto University Open Science and Research Results
Discover the results of Aalto University's open science activities coordinated by Open Science and ACRIS team. The figures are from February 2024.
Aalto University Open Science and Research Cases
Explore how open science and research is embedded in the work of Aalto University researchers.
Aspects of openness
Open Access Publishing
Open access ensures that scientific publications are accessible to everyone free of charge.
Research Data Management (RDM) and Open Science
Properly managed research data creates competitive edge and is an important part of a high-quality research process. Here you will find links to support, services and instructions for research data management.
Culture of Open Scholarship
Culture of Open Scholarship refers to e.g. responsible researcher and research assessment, services needed for open science and research and citizen science.
Open Education and Open Educational Resources
Open education and open educational resources are part of open science. Aalto University has a policy on open educational resources. There is also a national policy regarding open educational resources as well as open educational practices. In addition, the UNESCO Open Science Recommendation contains a number of recommendations for open education.
Open science and research news
Read & Publish agreements under renewal: how this affects open access publishing in early 2025?
ACM, Cell Press, Emerald, Nature Research, SAGE, T&F and Wiley are under renewal
Changes to Publication Forum (JUFO) ratings
The level ratings of 271 journals from MDPI and Frontiers will be downgraded to level 0 from the beginning of year 2025.
Tips on ACRIS: RCF publication list and information on the publication data collection
Do you need a publication list to attach to your Research Council of Finland (RCF) application? Are you interested in learning more about the Ministry of Education and Culture's publication data collection, which affects university funding? Explore the new ACRIS (Aalto Current Research Information System) instruction pages!
Last chance to nominate for 2024 Aalto University Open Science Award
The deadline for submissions is 3 Dec, 2024.Open science and research events
Aalto Data Agents' weekly support hour on Zoom
A weekly Zoom room to come and ask us anything about research data and open science: data management, data storage, data analysis, data sharing, reproducibility, responsible conduct of research, data privacy, ethics.
Aalto Data Agents' weekly support hour on Zoom
A weekly Zoom room to come and ask us anything about research data and open science: data management, data storage, data analysis, data sharing, reproducibility, responsible conduct of research, data privacy, ethics.
Aalto Data Agents' weekly support hour on Zoom
A weekly Zoom room to come and ask us anything about research data and open science: data management, data storage, data analysis, data sharing, reproducibility, responsible conduct of research, data privacy, ethics.
Aalto Data Agents' weekly support hour on Zoom
A weekly Zoom room to come and ask us anything about research data and open science: data management, data storage, data analysis, data sharing, reproducibility, responsible conduct of research, data privacy, ethics.More on open science and research
Researcher identification and research profiles
Researcher identifiers aim to reduce the problems caused by ambiguity in researcher names.
Research.fi and Researcher's Profile Tool
The National Research Information Hub and Research.fi portal offer a single source access to information on science and research in Finland.
Services and resources supporting open access
Aalto University open publication archive consists of ACRIS Research Information System and Aaltodoc publications archive. Moreover, Aalto University offers other resources to support open access.
