The International Open Access Week seminar day, “Who Pays and Who Is Responsible for Open Knowledge?”, will take place on 22 October in the conference hall of the University of Tartu Library. We invite everyone to listen to presentations on the costs of creating, sharing and preserving knowledge, and to discuss how responsibility and benefits are shared among researchers, universities, the state, publishers and society.
Throughout the day, Estonian and international experts will address open-access publishing practices and funding, research data management, European Union requirements, research visibility and the digital transformation of the humanities. In the hackathon following the presentations, participants will have the opportunity to contribute to the development of the University of Tartu’s open science policy. The day will also include practical workshops on documenting research processes in the humanities and on bibliometrics.
The event will be held in English. Researchers, doctoral students, project managers and all research-support staff are welcome to attend, including research administrators, data management specialists, grant advisors, librarians and research communication specialists.
SEMINAR PROGRAM
09:00–10:45 – HUM Workshop: Making the Research Process Visible: Using and Documenting Workflows (in Estonian). Facilitated by Mark Mets, Kata Maria Metsar and Kaisa Langer
11:00–14:15 – Presentations and Discussions (in English)
11:00–11:10 – Opening Remarks. Mari Moora, Vice Rector for Research, University of Tartu
11:10–11:40 – Developing Open Science Policy. Joeri Both, Vice Director of the University Library at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Chair of the OpenAIRE Board
11:40–12:10 – Implementing Open Science Policy in Helsinki University. Tiina Käkälä, University of Helsinki
12:10–12:30 – Open Science Policy: The Perspective of the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research. Kenneth Tuul, Ministry of Education and Research
12:30–13:00 – Lunch Break, sponsored by EDK.
13:00–13:15 – Open Access Publishing Practices and Trends in Estonia. Marika Meltsas, University of Tartu and Estonian Research Agency
13:15–13:30 – University of Tartu Open Access Publishing Support Scheme. Kalmer Lauk, University of Tartu
13:30–13:45 – ELEVATE-DM: Strengthening Data Management Capacity at the University of Tartu. Heleri Inno, University of Tartu
13:45–14:00 – A Researcher’s Perspective. Martin Pook, University of Tartu
14:00–14:15 – Results of the Survey of Humanities Researchers – The Digitalisation of the Humanities. Kadri Vider, Estonian Literary Museum, ETKAD Project
14:15–14:30 – Coffee Break and Transition to the Hackathon
14:30–16:30 – Open Science Policy Hackathon (in English). Liisi Lembinen, Elena Sipria-Mironov, University of Tartu Library
16:30–16:35 – Stretch Break
16:35–17:20 – How to Find the Best and Safest Journal for Your Research? – Workshop (in Estonian). Kalmer Lauk, University of Tartu Grant Office
Registration to the seminar HERE.
Descriptions of the workshops
Making the Research Process Visible: Using and Documenting Workflows
Every research project consists of many small steps: how you found and selected your materials, how you organized them, which tools you used, what decisions you made during the analysis, and how you arrived at your results. Much of this process often remains invisible in the final version of an article or dissertation.
Open science is not only about making publications and data publicly available. It is equally important to make the research process transparent and understandable, so that others can learn from it, evaluate it, and, where possible, use it as a model or reuse parts of it in their own research. One way to do this is to think of your research as a workflow—a sequence of interconnected steps that takes you from research questions and sources through analysis to results.
In this workshop, we will explore data-intensive research workflows published in the HUM Data Lab’s collection and discuss what makes a workflow clear and reusable. During the workshop, each participant will have the opportunity to sketch out the workflow of their own research project.
The workshop is primarily intended for doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences, but is also suitable for master’s students and practicing researchers whose work involves multiple stages of data collection, processing, or analysis. No prior experience with workflows or programming is required. It is helpful if participants have an ongoing or recent research task whose process they can unpack and reflect on during the workshop.
The workshop is led by Kata Maria Metsar, Mark Mets, and Kaisa Langer from the HUM Data Lab (https://www.etkad.ee/humal/). The workshop is supported by the Estonian Digital Infrastructure for Research and Cultural Data (TARISTU24-TK17).
Open Science Policy Hackathon
What could make open science easier, more impactful, and a more natural part of everyday research at our institution? In this two-hour hands-on hackathon, we will work together to develop concrete solutions for strengthening institutional open science policy. Participants will identify key barriers, design policy measures in groups, and stress-test their ideas through critical discussion with other participants.
The goal is to leave with concrete and actionable proposals that can be further discussed and developed within the institution.
The workshop is led by Liisi Lembinen and Elena Sipria-Mironov, University of Tartu Library.
How to Find the Best and Safest Journal for Your Research?
The session will introduce key tools and resources for finding relevant journals and assessing their credibility. It will also cover common warning signs of predatory journals and publishers. Through practical examples, attendees will gain confidence in selecting the right publication venue to maximize the visibility and impact of their research.
The workshop is led by Kalmer Lauk, University of Tartu Grant Office.
