Open science practices at Centria University of Applied Sciences

• Centria is committed to open publishing in accordance with the statement issued by Arene in 2009. The statement recommends that universities of applied sciences adopt an open publishing policy and promote openness through parallel publishing. In addition, all publications by Centria staff must be deposited in Theseus if the publisher gives permission.
• The Ministry of Education and Culture encourages open publishing through its funding model. In the 2021–2024 funding model, open publications of types A–E receive a weighting factor of 1.2.
• According to national policy, all peer-reviewed research and conference articles must be immediately available in open access from 2022 onwards.

In line with the objectives of open RDI activities, open publication channels are used to ensure that different publications reach their target groups as comprehensively as possible.

• Open publishing increases the visibility, impact, and equal access to information of research, and promotes networking among researchers and the likelihood of being cited.
• When a publication is open, it can be read, copied, printed, and linked to in its entirety online.
• It is recommended that open publications also have a permanent identifier. For example, publications stored in Theseus are given a permanent identifier.
• In open access publishing, the copyright remains with the author. The further use of the material can be determined, for example, by open CC licenses. 

Ways of open publishing include

• Gold OA - Publishing in an open publication channel
  • Many scientific journals charge a fee for open publishing
  • Centria's own publication series adheres to gold openness

• Green OA - Parallel archiving in an open publication archive (primarily Theseus at universities of applied sciences)
  • Parallel archiving requires the publisher's permission
  • Checking publishers' permissions and parallel archiving is done at the library
  • Scientific journals usually grant parallel archiving permission for the peer-reviewed manuscript version of an article, but not for the version formatted for publication
  • The publisher may impose an embargo, or quarantine period (e.g., 12 months), during which the article may not be freely published online

• Hybrid OA - Publication in a subscription-based journal, where the author pays a publisher-determined author fee to make the article open access
  • The author fee, or APC (Article Processing Charge), can be thousands of euros
  • The hybrid model is only used by large international scientific publishers, such as Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, Taylor & Francis, and SAGE.
  • Hybrid publications involve double funding, as the publisher collects both subscription fees and author fees.

Centria's guidelines for authors contain more detailed information on open publishing, publication channels, and publication data collection Publisher's Guide

Further information: julkaisutiedonkeruu@centria.fi