Open Access in Finland

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The DRIVER Inventory Study found that six to seven universities have at least one digital repository for research output. Many of these repositories have only very recently been set up. The main focus of the coverage lies on the grey literature: reports and theses. Only one digital repository focuses on research articles from peer-reviewed journals.

Last year a national project – funded by the Ministry of Education - started with the aim of promoting institutional repositories among the universities. It is expected that if the project is continued, most of the other universities will start to build digital repositories for research output in the coming year. The main driving factor behind the digital repositories is to preserve the research output of the institute. This is also the reason why the focus lies on publications, which are not published elsewhere, thus mainly grey literature.

The report continues by saying that in Finland, the national library plays traditionally a very important central role. With regard to institutional repositories, this has led to a debate on whether there should be one national repository or whether each institution should maintain its own institutional repository.

On the European level the situation in Finland would be best helped with the provision of guidelines, best practices and standards. It is seen as very important that in the development of best practices and guidelines all European Union countries should be involved to include the various cultural differences.

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