Guide to Publishing: Open access publishing

Library´s journal subscription packages include the right for free or discounted OA publishing for Haaga-Helia´s personnel. The excel list provides a selected collection of these journals and filtering by journal title, JUFO-rank or research field.

Below, you can browse all the journals included in the OA-contracts by publisher.

Open access publishing in Haaga-Helia
Haaga-Helia is committed to the Finnish Declaration on Open Science and Research 2020-2025 and its guidelines, one of which is open access to research publications. Openness is part of responsible research and one of the core values of science and research. Immediate open access to results of research aims to raise the quality of science and increase its societal impact. The policy on open access
to research publications is designed to serve these fundamental research objectives. Open access increases the visibility, use and impact of publications. Many research funders require that research publications produced in the research projects they fund are open access. Haaga-Helia recommends following the guidelines set by the funders. It is always advisable to check these guidelines on the funder's own website.

Principles of open access publishing

1. Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences requires its staff to publish the results of RDI activities openly whenever possible. A restriction on open publication may be imposed by the terms and conditions of the funder, partners or publisher, or by the fact that the results contain protected material or material owned by a third party.
2. The results of RDI activities shall be published in publication channels that meet the publication criteria of the Ministry of Education and Culture. The author of the publication will choose the appropriate and reliable publication channel.
3. Haaga-Helia ensures the openness of publications by self-archiving them in the Theseus Publication Archive, unless otherwise specified by the publisher's terms and conditions or by third-party proprietary material in the publication.
4.  Articles published in scientific journals, serial publications and conference proceedings or other collective works will be self-archived as a matter of priority. Articles published in professional journals will also be self-archived if the publishers allow. All articles published on Haaga-Helia's eSignals platform and publications in Haaga-Helia's publication series will be self-archived. Open access or hybrid publications published by staff will also be self-archived in Theseus as permitted by the publishing agreement.
5. If an article is published openly on a publisher's service and the open publication involves article processing charges (APC) charged to authors by the publisher, Haaga-Helia staff have the possibility to apply for funding for these APC charges. This funding is primarily intended for articles that do not receive APC funding from the project and are published in channels not covered by the library's open access agreements. In publicly funded RDI projects, the funding body often accepts publication costs as part of the project costs (e.g. Business Finland, the Academy of Finland and Horizon 2020).
6. Haaga-Helia does not recommend publishing in hybrid journals except when open access publishing is part of Haaga-Helia's transformative contracts (Elsevier, Emerald, IEEE, Sage).
7. Open access publications are recommended to use the CC BY 4.0 license.
8. Researchers are recommended to obtain the international researcher identifier ORCID.
9. Theses produced at Haaga-Helia are stored in the open or restricted collection of Theseus.
10.  Research and Library and Information Services provide support and guidance for open access publishing.

Open access publishing means uploading a research paper or article on the Internet and granting the scientific community and the general public rights to read, copy, print and link to the entire publication. Open access publishing means free dissemination of scientific information. In many cases the openness of the publication is guaranteed by a Creative Commons -license.

Publishers have different open access business models and a publication can be open in varying ways.

Publication can be open immediately in the publishers platform, without charge or for a APC-fee. All publications within the publication channel can be open, or just specific articles, bought open separately.  A publication can alos be open access if the Version of Record or an earlier manuscript version of the article is archived in an open repository.

Open access benefits:

The flipside of open access publishing are "predatory" open access publishers take take advantage of open access business models based on article processing charges or other author fees.

These publishers operate on pay-to-publish model where there are no actual peer-review processes or editorial processes in place, even though the publisher may claim to adhere to principles of scientific publishing and peer-review. In practice, anything get´s published if the usually quite low cost APC is paid.

The publishers or journals can adopt a misleading name and title, imitating or copying reputable and prestigious journals. Journal titles and aims and scope can also be all-encompassing.

When a journal or publishers contacts you by email solicitating manuscript submissions based on your conference presentation or previous research article, pay attention to style and language, who is the undersigned, what is the email address where the message came from. Usually predatory publishers are quickly spotted, but some can be quite convincing, and it might be a good idea to search some more information about the publisher and journal in question.

Is the journal website professional? Is the information there correct? Do the articles they have previously publish demonstrate good editorial standards?

You can contact Haaga-Helia library if you need a second opinion on any offers to publish you may get.