Research Data Guide

National coordination of open science / Federation of Finnish Learned Societies

- Pages related to research data

• UNIFI is a co-operational organisation for Finnish universities

• Digital transformation in scholarly communication. Event report  Brussels 20 and 21 Nov 2019. Science Europe April 2020
• Future of Scholarly Publishing and Scholarly Communication. Report of the Expert Group to the European Commission (January 2019)
• European Commission guidance to Open Science (publ. April 2018)
• European Commission policies on open data: policies, blog posts, news, events, projects, funding, consultations, reports and studies, laws

Responsible Research in the University of Oulu (published 12/2018)

• Foudations of the  program: quality, transparency, openness, collaboration and impact

Data Specialists in faculties and focus institutes at UOulu

In matters related to data management, please contact your unit’s data specialist or researchdata@oulu.fi
For more information, please contact: Miki Kallio, miki.kallio@oulu.fi, Unit for Strategy and Science Policy

The benefits of managing your data include:

• Meeting funding body grant requirements.
• Ensuring research integrity and reproducibility.
• Increasing your research impact.
• Ensuring research data and records are accurate, complete, authentic and reliable.
• Saving time and resources in the long run.
• Enhancing data security and minimizing the risk of data loss.
• Preventing duplication of effort by enabling others to use your data.
• Complying with practices conducted in industry and commerce.

Read more Data, Scientific; Astell, Mathias (2017): Benefits of Open Research Data Infographic. figshare. Figure. 

researchdata@oulu.fi

• increases researcher and research visibility
• increases impact & citation counts of research
• improves the quality of research
• improves innovativeness
• saves time and resources
• increases opportunities for collaboration across organizational and disciplinary boundaries

Barrier to data sharing can be financial or issues related to data confidentiality or ownership.

The sensitivity of personal information about human subjects cannot be overstated. However, it is entirely feasible to anonymise such data so that it may be freely and safely shared with others. Read more about sharing medical data.