Doctoral Students, Researchers and University Personnel
Open Science Centre, the library, offers courses, guidance, tailored information sessions and tailored education for all members of the university. You can also find self-study material from these pages.
Doctorate students in the Humanities and Social Sciences faculty (HYTJ2500 Collect, Manage and Publish Information) and in the School of Business and Economics (JSBJ1610 Data Acquisition, Command and Publishing) get 2 credits when they take part in
- Dissertation start-up, Open access publishing, Research data management
- And at least one other training from this list: Methodology guides and databases, Open Education, Choosing the publication channel (former name: Choosing the publishing channel), Research Merits
- If you are using the antecedent curriculum of the Humanities and Social Sciences faculty the trainings for the HYTJ2200 course are Dissertation start-up, Open access publishing and at least one other course from this list: Research data management, Methodology guides and databases, Choosing the publication channel (former name: Choosing the publishing channel), Research Merits
- When you have participated to the compulsory courses, please, ask the course registration from the library’s research course coordinator via email
More information: Marjo Vallittu
Open science
Courses
LIBJ1001 Open Science Resource (1 credit)
- Online course about open science, particularly for doctoral students
- For all disciplines
- Check out the suitability for your curriculum from your faculty’s web pages
- LIBJ1001: signing-up and schedules are in Sisu
- National online resource in Findocnet (link and enrollment key are in Sisu)
- Equivalent to the course JSBJ1120 (JSBE)
This resource is an introduction to open science and research principles and practices for doctoral students and other research active members new to Open Science and Research.
Open responsible science is a contemporary way of planning the research process. Participants will explore different aspects of open science and consider the advantages to their own research.
Open science is about the whole research process from planning your research to data management to publishing and scientific communication. Advantages of open science include increased visibility for the research and improved accessibility.
At every step the material can be related to the research you are working on and aims to support your progress as a researcher. Participants will work on a reflective open science handbook.
Language of learning is English.
Course is recommended for first or second year of your study.
Tailored education
Book an education for a group about Open Science.
Tailored information sessions
Creative Commons licenses (30 min)
Creative Commons (CC) licenses provide an easy way to license any kind of material intended for open-access distribution: articles, books, learning materials and data. The session deals with the content of CC licenses and gives tips how researchers can benefit from such licenses in their publishing and teaching projects.
More information or book a workshop about licenses.
Self-archiving to JYX (30 min)
What is self-archiving and why is it worthwhile? The information session deals with JYU practices for self-archiving and looks at what can already be self-archived today. We will also go through the publishers’ conditions for self-archiving, for example, the right version of the article and the embargo (publishing delay).
More information or book a workshop about self-archiving.
Open learning: open educational resources (the length of the session according to agreement)
How to open up your education? How to produce, find and utilize open educational resources?
More information or book a workshop about open educational resources.
Self-study material
- Open Science web pages gather national plans and current discussions.
- Local Open Science web pages by OSC gather information about our university’s practices and guidelines. Information about e.g. publishing, self-archiving, research data and educational resources.
- UNESCO: Open Access curriculum (2015).
Information seeking, managing references and general researcher courses
Courses
Dissertation start-up
- For all disciplines
- Offered in English 2 times per year and in Finnish 4 times per year
- In general classroom education but a hybrid format is also available: ask the course teacher if necessary
- Signing-up and schedules are in Kongressi
Familiarize yourself with the information environment and library practices in the University of Jyväskylä. Learn to know databases, e-journals, and other electronic resources in your discipline.
Reference Manager Zotero
- General course: not part of the doctoral curriculum but available for everyone at the university
- For all disciplines
- Offered monthly during the academic year
- Signing-up and schedules are in Kongressi (search with the course name)
Learn to use Zotero, a reference management program that allows you to generate in-text citations and bibliographies in a variety of citation styles.
In the Zotero workshop you’ll learn how to export and manage references with Zotero. You’ll also learn how to use Zotero and Microsoft Word to create in-text citations and bibliographies in various styles. With Zotero, you can do all this with just a few clicks of a button, so that you’ll have more time to concentrate on your research.
Reference management software (Koppa).
Personal guidance or a group consultation
Book a guidance or a consultation about information seeking.
Tailored education
Tailored information sessions
Infos about our researcher courses and services (the length of the session according to agreement)
What kind of services, support and education Open Science Centre, the library, offers for the university researchers and staff?
Book a tailored information session for doctoral students, researchers or other members of the university personnel. Suitable e.g. doctoral student infos or seminars or for new members of the personnel and research projects.
Turnitin: the system to recognise plagiarism
Practical guidelines how to utilize the Turnitin system to recognise plagiarism in your own course. The aim for the system is to be a tool for guidance and academic writing, not so much a way of tracking plagiarism.
Book an information session on Turnitin.
Self study material
Are the university’s databases new to you or has it been a while since you made your master’s thesis?
The Library Tutorial helps you to orientate yourself to the basics of information seeking.
Check out also the discipline specific themes and characteristics in information seeking and the library user’s guide in necessary.
You can also get help to self-study from the library’s coordinator of the researcher courses.
Responsible research (TSV)
Tips: JYU offers other courses and guidance
- JYU’s doctoral school, more information about research skills
- Training by the digital services, e.g. the surfaces for data processing, SSPS statistics
- Also check out
- Research and Innovation Services, e.g. current information about research funding
- AURORA funding database
Research data
Courses
Research data management
- For all disciplines. especially suited for fields that process personal data and need to take data privacy matters into consideration
- Offered in English and in Finnish 4 times per year
- Research data management training is offered as two alternative modules:
- Research data containing personal information focuses on specifics in planning and managing data privacy and protection issues as part of the lifespan of the research project
- Research data not containing personal information focuses on specific issues in managing research data in projects that do not involve handling of personal data under the GDPR
- Organised as classroom training or remote training. Hybrid option is not available
- Enrollment and schedules:
- Data containing personal information
- In English: 30.11 (classroom training only).
- In Finnish: 6.10. (classroom training only) and 21.11. (remote training only).
- Data not containing personal information
- In English 26.10. (remote training only).
- In Finnish 15.11. (classroom training only).
- Data containing personal information
The training focuses on research data management in the dissertation and research processes. The aim is for participants to recognize the characteristics of their own research data and to get a knowledge package of best practices in managing them properly during the research project. In addition, the aim is to promote understanding of the importance of opening research data as part of Open Science and research policies. In the training, attendees start to draft a data management plan (DMP) for their dissertation or research project according to the University's and funders' requirements. Attendees also learn how to open the metadata of their datasets by using the University's Converis.
Key tools and documents for research data management at JYU:
- Guide to research data management
- Ethical review in human sciences (TENK) and JYU’s data privacy and research ethics instructions
Check the video introduction to the training, and join in:
Workshops
Make your data visible to the world - A Metadata Clinic
Making research data and their descriptive basic metadata findable and open is a fundamental skill for a researcher. it is required by all major funders as well as the university. On this clinic, you will get hands-on instruction in how to open the metadata of your research datasets using Converis, thereby making your data as FAIR as possible. The clinic is ideal for researchers who are currently collect or generate data, as well as for those with already existing metadata in Converis who wish to finalise and publish it.
Organised as classroom training or remote training. Hybrid option is not available. Enrollment and schedules:
- In English: 9.11. (remote training only).
- In Finnish: 27.9. (classroom training only) and 7.11. (classroom training only).
Consultations and on-demand workshops
Personal consultation in research data management (45-60 mins or according to agreement)
Any questions about how to practically implement your DMP? Any doubts about data privacy measures in your upcoming project? How to file the metadata of your dataset in Converis to make it openly available? Any other practical worries about how to manage your data? Book a consultation!
Group consultation for research teams (90 mins or according to agreement)
Is it time to put the data management plan (DMP) of your research group in practice? How to follow best practices and create FAIR data workflows in your project? How to make sure that the data can be opened at the end of the project? Book a consultation for your team!
A DMP workshop (duration according to agreement)
In DMP (Data Management Plan) workshop you get to process the problematic points of your DMP with experts. Note, however, that just before and during the most hectic application periods, there is great demand for our advice services, so please collect several questions for a workshop request within your unit. In quieter times of the year, we will have more time for workshops, even for individual plans. As DMPs are made for actual research work and not just for funding applications, any time is good for improving it! Book a workshop here.
Data Converis clinic (90 mins or according to agreement)
- How to open the metadata of your new research dataset according to the principles of findable and reusable FAIR research data? Can we help in getting your metadata entry started, or in finishing an existing metadata draft for publication? Book a Converis clinic to the researchers of your unit or department!
The clinic is suited for all units and departments, and is ideal for groups of 4 to 8 participants per session.
Open data clinic (90 mins or according to agreement)
- Do you have a ready data package that you want to publish? Or is your dataset next to ready but you wonder if there are still preparations to be done? In Open data clinic, you get walked throught the final steps to open your data in the University's JYX data archive with a suitable license and usage terms. Book a clinic to the researchers in your unit or department!
The clinic is suited for all units and departments, and is ideal for groups of 4 to 8 per session.
REDCap trainings
Introduction to REDCap (120 mins, online in Zoom). 16.11. at 12.00-14.00. Register here.
- An introductory overview to the REDCap survey software and its basic functions, suitable for beginners. Remotely in Zoom. The training will be recorded. Language: English.
Self-study material
- The JYU Guide to Research Data Management
- JYU guidelines to data privacy and ethical questions in research data management
- Data management guidelines (FSSDA)
Online Course for Data Management for Social and Health Sciences
Expert tour guide on Data Management in Social Sciences and Humanities
- This tour guide was written for social science researchers who are in an early stage of practicing research data management. With this tour guide, CESSDA wants to contribute to increased professionalism in data management and to improving the value of research data.
- If you follow the guide, you will travel through the research data lifecycle from planning, organising, documenting, processing, storing and protecting your data to sharing and publishing them. Taking the whole roundtrip will take you approximately 15 hours. You can also just hop on and off.
Online resources to find open datasets
- Etsin (Fairdata)
- Aila (FSD)
- CESSDA (Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives)
Publishing
Courses
Open access publishing
- For all disciplines
- Offered in English 2 times per year and in Finnish 4 times per year
- In general classroom education but a hybrid format is also available: ask the course teacher if necessary
- Signing-up and schedules are in Kongressi
Basic information kit of open publishing: by what means can research results be made openly available? In this course, we will go through the basics of self-archiving, sharing articles in various channels and publishing in open access journals.
The course gives the researcher the abilities to integrate self-archiving with his or her publishing activity. You will get the basic knowledge of what self-archiving is, what can be self-archived and how it is done. The course will also examine other ways of sharing research results, e.g. with the help of scientific social networks such as Research Gate, Academia.edu and Mendeley. What are they? What does the researcher need to know about copyright matters when sharing articles in them?
Could you think of publishing your article preprint, i.e. the non-peer reviewed manuscript? The course will also consider how, and on what conditions, the different article versions can be published open access and what the differences are between fields of science.
Choosing the publication channel
- For all disciplines
- Offered in English 2 times per year and in Finnish 4 times per year
- In general classroom education but a hybrid format is also available: ask the course teacher if necessary
- Signing-up and schedules are in Kongressi
Do you recognize the relevant publishing channels? How and with which tools can publishing channels be assessed? How can different types of publishing channels direct the researcher profiling? What do you want to communicate with your publications and to whom? This course deals with the researcher’s own publishing profile and suggests how to build it. We also ask how the researcher can take advantage of openness in his or her own publishing strategy. Various databases and tools are used to evaluate publishing channels. Former name of this course was Choosing the publishing channel.
Tailored education
Book an education for a group about publishing.
Tailored information sessions
Open access publishing (40 min)
A concise package of basic knowledge on different forms of open access publishing. The session deals with self-archiving and the basics of publishing in open access journals. We will discuss the pros and cons of hybrid publications and introduce a possibility to publish preprints, that is, non-peer-reviewed articles. Furthermore, we will also discuss field-specific possibilities for open publishing of monographies.
More information or book a workshop about open access publishing.
The quality of open access journals and selecting the publishing channel (40 min)
When researchers are looking for an open access publishing channel, they often need to think about the quality and effectiveness of the channel as well. This information session gives tips for assessing the quality of a publishing channel and selecting tools for the assessment.
More information or book a workshop about publishing channels.
Self study material
- ©-info
- Fair Cite: towards a fairer culture of citation in academia
- Creative commons licences
- About citations, e.g. Cite Them Right book
- ImagOA: open science and images (University of Aalto)
- Journal ranking tools - Journal impact factors Journal Citation Reports (ISI) and SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), read article in Nature
- Information on journals, e.g. on referee practice, Ulrichsweb.com
- Journal abbreviations (ISI) and Medline
Research merits, e.g. profiling
Courses
Research merits
- For all disciplines
- Offered in English 2 times per year and in Finnish 4 times per year
- In general classroom education but a hybrid format is also available: ask the course teacher if necessary
- Signing-up and schedules are in Kongressi
Create your own Researcher ID, get to know the Template for researcher’s curriculum vitae and learn to evaluate your own scientific activity with basic bibliometric tools.
Tailored education
Book an education for a group about profiling.
Tailored information sessions
ORCID is a register of unique identifiers for researchers. It is open, public, international and community based. The researcher identifiers solve confusions related to name changes, identical names of different persons or differently written names of the same person. The ID decreases the need to enter your personal and publication data multiple times in different systems. The University of Jyväskylä encourages researchers to use the ORCID identifier. If they wish, researchers can authorise Converis to update their new approved publications to their ORCID profile. In the workshop, you create a unique ORCID profile and learn how to update it.
More information or book a workshop about ORCID identifier.
Methodology guides
Courses
Methodology guides and databases
(Former name of the course: Guides to methodology as research support)
- For all disciplines
- Offered in English 2 times per year and in Finnish 4 times per year
- In general classroom education but a hybrid format is also available: ask the course teacher if necessary
- Signing-up and schedules are in Kongressi:
How to find sources on research methods? And how to open up your research process? This training provides ideas and tools for information seeking in research methods as well as for methodological transparency. The training suits doctoral students who are at the early stages of their dissertation or researchers planning a new research project. It also benefits data management planning.
Tailored education
Book a training in research methods and information seeking tailored for your group.
Self study material
Methodology database Sage Research Methods Online
SRMO is a database dedicated to research methods, covering especially humanities and social sciences. SRMO assists you in selecting the best method for your research design as well as in applying that method. The database includes books, handbooks, encyclopedias, videos, and podcasts on methods, and it provides tools for planning your research project.
Open Education
Courses
Open education
- For all disciplines
- Offered in English 2 times per year and in Finnish 4 times per year
- In general classroom education but a hybrid format is also available: ask the course teacher if necessary
- Signing-up and schedules are in Kongressi:
This Open education training includes the basics of openness in education and learning. It focuses on open educational resources:
- How can you open your own educational resources?
- What should be taken into account when opening educational resources?
- How can you use educational resources opened by others?
Tailored education
Book an education for a group about methodology guides.