Joint commitments strengthen the scientific community
The development of science requires common objectives and cooperation across organisational and national borders. The commitments also guide the TSV’s own operations. They support the work we do to develop open science, responsible research assessment, science publishing and science policy together with the scientific community in Finland and internationally.
Commitments and declarations
TSV endorses joint national and international commitments and declarations that promote scientific development and cooperation in the scientific community. The commitments support common operating methods and strengthen the openness, quality and responsibility of research.
Declaration for open science
The declaration for open science defines common objectives for the promotion of open science in Finland. The declaration guides research organisations in developing an operating culture that supports the openness of research and the accessibility of research data.
Read the declaration for open science (in Finnish)
Barcelona Declaration
The Barcelona Declaration aims to ensure that information on research and its publication is open in principle. Such information includes information on publications, researchers and research organisations. The signatories to the declaration commit to promoting transparency in the production and use of research data.
Read more about the Barcelona Declaration
CoARA Agreement
CoARA (Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment) is an international agreement on the reform of research assessment. The signing organisations commit to developing assessment practices that better recognise the quality, openness and diverse merits of research.
DORA declaration
DORA (San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment) promotes responsible assessment of research. The declaration encourages to stop using impact indicators of publication channels in the assessment of individual researchers and studies and emphasises the quality of research content as the starting point for the assessment.
Read more about the DORA declaration
Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication
The Helsinki Initiative promotes multilingualism in scientific communication and research assessment. Its aim is to protect the status of national languages in the production of science and the societal impact of research data.