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Guide to Open Access: Collecting publication information

Submit information on your publications

When you publish, submit the publication information for the reporting of the Ministry of Education and Culture. Your publication may be an article, a blog post, a book, an artistic or an industrial art activity, an audio-visual publication, or an IT programme or software.

Submit the publication information either with the e-form or by emailing julkaisutiedonkeruu@turkuamk.fi.


Submit the following information on your publications:

  • Author(s) of the publication
  • Title of the publication
  • Title of the book or journal, if the publication is an article or part of a book
  • Name of the Turku UAS research group, if the publication is connected to a research group
  • ORCID identifier(s) of the author(s) if you have them
  • Sum of the article processing charge paid by Turku UAS

Attach the final manuscript version of your publication in PDF format for self-archiving. Turku UAS library will verify the publication’s self-archiving policy from the publisher. More information on self-archiving.

The publication information is checked by the library experts and saved:

NOTE: For Turku UAS publication series or Talk magazine, publication information and self-archived versions are sent to the library automatically, so you do not need to submit them separately.

Please submit the publication information on your publications as soon as they are published. If needed the information can be updated later.

Why is it important to submit your publication information?

The number of publications is a funding indicator at universities of applied sciences, with a weight of 2% in the funding model by the Ministry of Education and Culture. Text-based open access publications in publication categories A-E receive a weighted coefficient of 1.2  when fully open or self-archived, while all other publications receive a coefficient of 1. 

From the beginning of the year 2025 the funding model will change in terms of the publication points:

  • A-D publication types  1 point, plus 0.2 when textbased and OA
  • E-I publication types 0.4 point, plus 0.2 when text-based and OA

Turku UAS reports the details and the number of publications to the Ministry of Education and Culture annually. Information on all Finnish publications is browsable in Research.fi. Statistical data on publications is available in Education Statistics Finland portal Vipunen

The number of publications is also monitored internally in Turku UAS: Faculty-specific quantitative reports are published monthly in Ruori. Cumulative quantitative reports by faculty and research groups for Turku UAS staff are cumulated in excel format in Julkaisuraportit-Teams.

Which publications are eligible for the Ministry's publication points?

Publications must meet the minimum criteria listed below to be reported to the Ministry of Education and Culture.

Please submit information on all of your publications anyway - the library will check if they meet the criteria of the Ministry.

  • Publication is publicly available to anyone, free of charge or subject to a charge, such as a subscription fee.
  • Publication has not been reported previously to the Ministry in the publication data collection.
  • Publication channel has an editorial board, or a publisher that makes decisions on publications published in the channel.
  • Author is employed by Turku UAS when the publication was created.
  • Publication must be related to the author’s work at Turku UAS.

More detailed criteria are listed in the Instructions on publication data collection by the Ministry, see

Author's affiliation information needs to be clearly visible in the publication, read more below: What is an affiliation?

What is an affiliation?

In scholarly publications, an affiliation is mentioned together with the author’s name. Affiliation refers to the author’s home organisation, higher education institution, or research institution, where the author was employed/studied at the time the publication was created.

It is important the articles you publish contain your name and affiliation Turku University of Applied Sciences or Turun ammattikorkeakoulu, because:

  • The affliation ensures Turku UAS gets the publication points in the Ministry of Education and Culture's yearly collection of publication information.
  • Self-archiving is easier when the publication has clear information that it has been created as part of your work at Turku UAS.

NOTE: An affiliation can include more than one organisation. For example, if your employer is Turku UAS and you participate in a project coordinated by another organisation, both organisations can be listed as your affiliations in the publication.

Publication information reports

Qualitative publication reports by quarter

The library produces quarterly qualitative reports on publication information in Julkaisuraportit Teams for the Turku UAS staff to check the information by faculty or research group. Publication reports are downloaded after the end of each quarter in an Excel format. The reports contain publications submitted by Turku UAS authors and verified and deposited by the library staff.

Please submit any missing publications by e-form or by email to julkaisutiedonkeruu@turkuamk.fi. You can send any corrections to publications to the same email. Corrections and missing publications will be added onto the next quarter's spreadsheets. Look for individual publications in the Research.fi service.

About the guide

This guide has Turku UAS's instructions on open access. Among others, the following themes are covered:

  • What does open access (OA) mean?
  • How to publish open access?
  • What are the Turku UAS recommendations on OA publishing?
  • How do I report my publications for the Ministry of Education and Culture's data collection, and self-archive them?
  • How can we promote the visibility and findability of research and publications?

Submit the information on your publication

In Turku UAS, publication information is stored in JUSTUS, see the privacy notice (pdf download).

Contact us to ask about publication data collection

Contact our experts on collecting data on publications by email julkaisutiedonkeruu@turkuamk.fi

We are happy to help!

Finnish Research.fi service

You can find up-to-date information on publications created by Turku UAS staff in the Research.fi service.

Research.fi service has information on text-based publications reported by Turku UAS to the Ministry of Education and Culture from 2012 and information on artistic works from 2018 onwards. So far, it does not include information on audio-visual materials or ICT programs. However, information on these publications is also collected, and if they meet the criteria of the Ministry of Education and Culture's data collection, are eligible for publication points.

Research.fi service also contains publication information reported by all Finnish higher education institutions to the Ministry of Education and Culture.

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