Doctoral Students, Researchers and University Personnel

Open science

  • LIBJ1001 Open Science Resource

Information seeking, managing references and general researcher courses

  • Dissertation start-up

Research data

  • Research data management
  • REDCap trainings
  • Research Data Management for Thesis Supervisors

Publishing

  • Open access publishing
  • Choosing the publication channel

Research  merits, e.g. profiling

  • Research merits

Research methods

  • Openness of Research Methods

Open Education

  •  Open Education

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Dissertation's supervisor guide

 

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

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

Book an education for a group about information seeking or a demonstration of the research support Open Science Centre, the library offers.

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

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 2-6 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: 

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:

Check the video introduction to the training, and join in:  

Introduction to REDCap

JYU REDCap is a versatile software for collecting electronic data. It is especially suited for sensitive data. At JYU, REDCap is available by request for all staff and students. The training offers a tour to the basic functionalities and features of REDCap. Attendees get to start drafting their own survey form on the software. Enrollment and schedules:

Research Data Management for Thesis Supervisors

This training covers research data management from the thesis supervisor’s point of view. What does a student working on their bachelor’s thesis or master’s thesis need to know about for example personal data and data security? What support is there for the thesis supervisor and what resources are available?

We center around the kind of research data where personal data is handled. I hope you come to the training with questions and examples from your work! Enrollment and schedules:

Workshops 

Open data workshop

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. In this workshop, 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 workshop is ideal for researchers who are currently collecting/generating data as well as for those who have existing metadata in Converis that they want to finish and publish.

Enrollment and schedules:

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. 

Self-study material

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 

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

In the Open access publishing training, you will learn about the benefits of making research findings openly available and the practical steps to achieve this. The course covers the basics of self-archiving, sharing articles on various platforms, and publishing in open access journals.

Upon completion of the course, researchers will have the skills to integrate self-archiving into their publishing activities. They will understand what self-archiving involves, what materials can be archived, and the process to follow.

The training also discusses the specifics related to open access journals and teaches participants to identify deceptive publishers, often referred to as predatory journals.

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

Are you looking for a suitable publication channel for your research? How can publication channels be evaluated and with which tools? How can different types of publication channels shape your profile as a researcher? What do you want to communicate through your publications and to whom?

These questions will be addressed in the Choosing the publication channel training. The course offers tips for building your own publication strategy and introduces various tools that help evaluate publication channels and their suitability for your research.

 

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

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

Introduction to responsible researcher evaluation and publication metrics.

This training will give you information on researcher identifiers and profiles which can impact your visibility as a reseacher. The training helps you to set up your ORCID identifier, and gives tips on how it can be used. You will also learn to evaluate publication activity with basic metrics tools. These tools can be used as help when listing publications for recruitment and grant applications, e.g. the Finnish "Template for researchers curriculum vitae".

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.

Research Methods

Courses

Openness of research methods

  • 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:

The recommendations and guidelines of Open Science encourage openness and transparency in research methods. But what does transparency of research methods mean and how can you promote it in your own research? This training will introduce you to practices and tools that can help you open up your own research methods, both at the beginning of the research process and during the publication phase. We will also discuss the challenges that the use of AI as a research method - for example in literature reviews and data analysis - poses for research transparency. You will also get tips on how to find methodological sources, as a well-rounded understanding of research methods is the first step towards methodological transparency.

Note: a similar training has been organised in the past under the title Methodology Guides and Databases.

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.

Self study material

Open educational materials: JYU guidelines

Open education: national policy