Scholarly journals, politics, and freedom of speech

Venue: The House of Science and Letters, lecture hall 104 (Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki, Finland)
Date: June 2nd 2017, 9:30–15:15

 

9:30–10 Coffee

Head of publications Johanna Lilja from The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies will act as moderator for the day.

10–12 Value of Open Access for civil societies

  • Opening words, Johanna Lilja
  • KEYNOTE: OpenEdition, Pierre Mournier, manager of international affairs + comments from Kirsi Pauliina Kallio PhD
  • KEYNOTE: The Hungary case, Edit Herczog, Managing Director, Vision & Values + comments from Emilia Palonen PhD

12–12:45 Lunch (at own expense)

12:45–14 Publications in a chain of open science and research

  • The role of Finnish scholarly journals in the civil society, Riitta Koikkalainen, information specialist from the National Library of Finland
  • The role of Finnish scholarly journals in the funding of universities, Janne Pölönen, coordinator in The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies
  • The value of domestic academic journals for researchers; Johanna Vuorelma, postdoctoral researcher, Network for European Studies, University of Helsinki & Tuukka Tammi PhD, editor-in-chief, National Institute for Health and Welfare

13:45–14 Coffee break

14–14:45 Scholarly journals, politics, and freedom of speech

Panel moderated by associate professor Mikael Laakso from the Hanken School of Economics.

Other participants: Edit Herczog, Pierre Mournier, senior advisor Sami Niinimäki, Ministry of Education and Culture; Emilia Palonen PhD, chair of Finnish Association of Scholarly Publishing

15–15:10 Closing words, Sami Niinimäki

 

Seminar is produced by the Kotilava project (Finnish academic journals towards immediate open access).

Free entrance, registration here!

For more information, please contact riitta.koikkalainen [at] helsinki.fi

Our speakers

Edit Herczog
Managing Director, Vision & Values; MEP (Hungary) 2004–2014, Horizon 2020
http://apcoworldwide.com/about-us/our-people/bios/edit-herczog
https://be.linkedin.com/in/editherczog
http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/

Kirsi Pauliina Kallio
Academy of Finland Research Fellow; editor-in-chief of Fennia – International Journal of Geography; Chair for the Society for Regional and Environmental Studies that publishes the journal Alue & Ympäristö http://www.uta.fi/jkk/yhteystiedot/hallintotiede/kallio_kirsi.html

Riitta Koikkalainen
information specialist at the National Library of Finland, Kotilava project
http://www.kotilava.fi

Mikael Laakso,
associate professor, Hanken School of Economics. https://www.hanken.fi/en/person/mikael-laakso

Johanna Lilja,
head of publications, The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies. http://www.tsv.fi

Pierre Mournier
manager of international affairs, OpenEdition
OpenEdition brings together four platforms dedicated to electronic resources in the humanities and social sciences. http://www.openedition.org/

Sami Niinimäki
senior advisor, Ministry of Education and Culture.  http://openscience.fi/

Emilia Palonen
PhD, chair of Finnish Association of Scholarly Publishing; Senior Lecturer, Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki. http://blogs.helsinki.fi/epalonen/

Janne Pölönen, coordinator in The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies

Tuukka Tammi, PhD, editor-in-chief of Yhteiskuntapolitiikka, National Institute for Health and Welfare

Johanna Vuorelma, postdoctoral researcher, Network for European Studies, University of Helsinki

 

Tags: