The Finnish research community is invited to give their views on the update of the policy components for educational resources and research data by 21 March 2025.

The guidelines for describing research data are now available as an English translation. The guidelines are particularly intended to assist researchers in producing descriptive information about research data.

Open Science and Research Winter Conference 3–4 December in Turku saw exploring and experimenting with multilingualism and open science.

The Criteria for a Good Knowledge Base and How to Become a Citizen Scientist: A Beginner's Gudie have been translated to Swedish and English.

RDA plenary meeting 2024 was hosted by the University of Costa Rica in November. Read a travel blog from the 23rd Plenary Meeting.

Multilingual scholarly communication and open science are intertwined in impact, transparency and equality. Read a summary of the Winter Conference programme for 2024.

The 2024 Open Science and Research (OS) monitoring results indicate a significant commitment from Finnish research organisations towards promoting openness.

A draft for a road map for funding open science has been subjected to a public round of comments from 28 October to 5 December 2024.