
Open Science - Editorial from ERC Scientific Council
Open Science aims to transform current scientific practices into a fully transparent and open system, in which all scientific advances are made available not only to the entire scientific community, but also to society at large. A significant bulk…

Rights retention and open access
Enabling researchers to retain key rights to their publications helps the authors and fosters open access (OA). Policies at funders and universities can make rights retention automatic, and far easier than it would be for authors acting on their own…

Open science needs no martyrs, but we must recognize the need for reform
You’ve been a vocal advocate of the open access movement already in your home country Finland and in various European fora. What’s so great about open science? Why is it supposed to be overall good for society? I think we should first admit that the…

Open science in practice - for new ERC grant recipients
You have just been awarded an ERC research grant as part of the Horizon Europe funding programme. As soon as your research results start to become available, you want to ensure they are properly shared. How do you get them published in the right…