Open access accelerates and broadens the dissemination of research results, leading to more readers, potential collaborators, and citations. Such publications achieve greater visibility than those restricted by subscriptions. By reaching a wider audience, your research is more likely to benefit society as a whole.
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Familiarize yourself with Aalto University's Open Science and Research Policy, along with our services and resources supporting open access.
Open science means open access to scientific publications, research data, methods, software codes, educational resources, and infrastructures. It is a key instrument for increasing the impact of the research conducted at Aalto University.
ACRIS and Aaltodoc form Aalto University's open publication archive, and the university also offers other resources to support open access.
Get to know funders' open access policies and read more about Plan S open access initiative.
Explore the open science requirements set by major research funders.
Plan S is an open access initiative launched by research funders.
Learn more about open access publication channels and self-archiving at Aalto University.
Get to know open publication channels
Instructions on self-archiving and prior licence model (Rights Retention Strategy, RRS)
Aalto University's prior licence model supports researchers' rights to their peer-reviewed manuscripts.
Open access fees are article processing charges (APC fees) set by publishers for making articles open access. With the help of the open access agreements, researchers can publish their articles open access without these fees or at discounted rates.
Article processing charges (APC fees)
Publish without APC fees
Search for the journals included in Aalto University open access agreements
What needs to be taken into account when choosing a publication channel and submitting the manuscript? In addition to choosing a publication, authorship, and researcher identifiers, it is important to consider issues related to export control.
What needs to be taken into account before submitting your manuscript?
Prioritize the openness, reliability, and quality of a journal to enhance the impact of your research.
Guidance and documents available to help you to agree on authorship.
Researcher identifiers aim to reduce the problems caused by ambiguity in researcher names.
In general, publication of an article or giving of a presentation is not problematic from the export control law point of view.
Learn more about open Creative Commons licenses and what needs to be taken into account when signing a publishing agreement.
Creative Commons (CC) licenses let authors grant advance permission for how others can use, share, or adapt their work
Copyright ownership, authorship and terms for open access publishing are defined in publishing agreements.
For any questions, please don't hesitate to contact Open Science and ACRIS team (acris@aalto.fi) or your school liaison:
International Open Access Week 2025 was held 20-26 October. During the week, we published brief, theme-related news at aalto.fi.
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