You can create an expert/researcher profile with the Researcher’s Profile Tool in the Ministry of Education and Culture’s Research.fi service. All researchers in higher education and research institutions and those working in expert positions, regardless of their title, are welcome to use it.
With a Researcher profile you can promote your competences and expertise the way you want. Profile information is available to you regardless of changes in affiliations or job titles.
You cannot add information directly to your Researcher profile, because all of it is imported from other sources:
You can choose which information you want to show in your profile in Research.fi.
To create a Researcher profile, you will need an ORCID profile (instructions below). To access your Researcher profile, you must use a strong Suomi.fi e-Identification.
More information in Research.fi research.fi/en/mydata.
More information in Research.fi: research.fi/en/mydata.
The international ORCID researcher identifier is a persistent and unique digital identifier for researchers. It is a 16-digit number that distinguishes researchers from each other.
By creating an ORCID profile for yourself and linking it to your professional information you will ensure that your research outputs are correctly attributed to you. Over time, using an ORCID will reduce the need to repeatedly enter the same personal and publication information into different systems.
Boost your visibility by creating an ORCID and register free of charge:
Scholarly publishers, as well as funders, may require authors and peer reviewers to have an ORCID. Many universities expect their postgraduate students to have an ORCID. ORCID is in a sense a signature that you can attach to your online presence, such as your web pages, blog posts, social media, CV, and email signature.
ORCID is a non-proprietary and community-based registry of unique identifiers for researchers and authors. Community members include individual researchers, authors, publishers (e.g. Elsevier), universities (e.g. MIT), research institutes (e.g. CERN), and scientific associations.
More information on the ORCID researcher identifier:
Research activities are a part of your visibility as an expert. A research activity is an expert task related to RDI, teaching, or other expert activities. It can for example be a conference poster, a lecture, or thesis supervision.
Research activities are often comparable merits to other expert outputs, e.g. publications, so it can be important to collect and show them to promote the visibility of your merit and expertise.
Save your research activity information to the Research activity service in the Turku UAS JUSTUS service. You are responsible for the accuracy of your research activity information.
Activity information saved in the Turku UAS Research activity service can be added in your Researcher profile in the Research.fi service, see above for more detailed instructions. It is up to you to decide which activities you choose to show in your profile.
NOTE! The JUSTUS service also includes publication data and research data information services.
Social networking sites for researchers are platforms like ResearchGate and Academia.edu. However, they are not publishing platforms that meet the criteria of open access publishing and can even decrease the positive effects of open access.
For example, in ResearchGate you can create your profile, link to your publications, follow the latest research in your field, create groups and participate in discussions. It helps you to gain visibility for your research and find collaborators.
Check the publisher policies before uploading your paper into social networking services
Always check publisher policies before uploading articles and publications into e.g. ResearchGate. In most cases, the author's rights to use the publication are described in the publishing agreement or funding decision. Often these agreements restrict the right to share the publication to the publisher/funder. Also, remember to check that the uploaded publication does not have any limitations because of the confidentiality of the material.
Check what you can do with publications found on social networking sites
When downloading publications from e.g. ResearchGate, to share with fellow researchers, remember to check the terms of use of the publication from the original source (e.g. journal/publisher) or, if necessary, ask for permission or more specific information from the person who uploaded the publication into the social networking site.
You can link the self-archived version of your publication in a researcher social network. This way you do not have to worry about publishing agreement limitations.
In self-archiving, the Turku UAS Library and Information Services is responsible for depositing the articles, asking for permissions and embargoes. When using a commercial channel of distribution, like researcher networking services, authors must take care of these themselves when following the instructions of the publisher.
An self-archived version of your publication in Turku UAS’s OA repository Theseus has a permanent URL address. Self-archived publications in repositories are also findable with search engines.
Is sharing the article in ResearchGate and Academia.edu enough in terms of self-archiving?
No.
These researchers’ social media services entail challenges:
Uploading your publication in research networking services is not considered self-archiving in the MINEDU instructions on collecting data on publications, either.
Read more in the article by Irene Ylönen ResearchGate vai julkaisuarkisto - vai molemmat? (in Finnish)
This guide has Turku UAS's instructions on open access. Among others, the following themes are covered:
Contact our experts on collecting data on publications by email julkaisutiedonkeruu@turkuamk.fi
Contact our experts on open access publishing by email openscience@turkuamk.fi.
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