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Find open publications

Open publications include

Open Access (OA) journals whose content can be accessed freely (scientific and professional journals)
Individual OA articles in scientific journals beyond a paywall
OA articles, theses and other publications stored in repositories, including self-archived articles
Publications of public research institutes and authorities

Scientific OA journals

DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals
Provides information about over 10,000 high-quality, peer reviewed OA journals. Contains full-text articles that have appeared in publications of different fields. Includes articles published from 2002 on. The search service is maintained by Lund University in Sweden.
Journal.fi: Finnish Scholarly Journals Online
Journal.fi is a publication portal for Finnish scientific journals that can be accessed openly online.
TiSci - Online Scholarly Journals in Finland
The publication portal contains scientific online journals and other online publications of scientific communities published in Finland. The portal accepts online journals with peer-reviewed scientific articles that can be accessed openly (with a maximum delay of two years after publication).
UAS Journal
UAS journal is the joint online journal of Finnish universities of applied sciences. It is published by the Rectors' Conference of Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences Arene with the support of all Finnish UASs. UAS journal is an Open Access publication.
PLOS One
Open Access scientific journal

Publications of the public administration and research institutes

Publications of the Social Insurance Institution (Kela)
Kela’s research and statistical publications
Julkari - Repository for the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health's administrative branch
Julkari is the shared open repository for publications of organisations in the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health's administrative branch. Julkari also serves as the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare’s publication repository.
Valto - Institutional Repository for the Government
Valto contains works published in the ministries’ publication series in PDF format starting from the beginning of 2016, including some earlier publications.
VTT's Research Information Portal
Publications of VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

Search engines, databases and other tools for finding and publishing open access information

Academia.edu
A communal service for researchers for sharing your publications, reading other researchers’ publications and communicating with network members. Requires login.
Alternative access to articles
This website compiled by FinElib lists services that provide open access to publications as well as browser add-ons that automatically search for OA versions of articles.
BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
A search engine maintained by the German Bielefeld University's library that searches for scientific OA material online.
CORE Connecting Repositories
The service collects articles and theses from international repositories and contains more than 125 million publications.
DOAB - Directory of Open Access Books
Peer reviewed scholarly books freely available online.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar targets searches at scientific literature: scientific articles, theses and doctoral dissertations, books, abstracts, technical reports and even patents. Google Scholar searches also cover licensed databases and social media channels used by researchers. A Google Scholar search allows you to determine if OA versions of an article beyond a paywall are available. When you are logged in, you can save search results to "My Library" by clicking on the star in the link description. Click on the quotation marks to get ready-made citation templates.
Google Books
The Google Books service allows you to search for and use books and journals scanned and described by Google. Google restricts the viewing of the scanned books based on copyright terms.
Google advanced search
Mendeley
An online service for networking, citation management and presentation of one’s publication activities. Requires login. Research service that can be used for networking and reference managing. Requires login.
The OAIster® database
An Open Access collection maintained by OCLC that contains over 50 million documents.
Open Access Button
Open Access Button is a browser extension (add-on) that helps you find scientific peer reviewed OA articles. The link takes you to instructions for use prepared by FinElib, which contain a link to the website of the actual service.
OpenDOAR - The Directory of Open Access Repositories
A directory of OA publication archives. Global Directory of Open Access Repositories.
PubMed
A comprehensive international reference database of health sciences. Also contains OA articles.
ResearchGate
ResearchGate is a communal service on which researchers can share their publications, read other researchers’ publications and communicate with other network members. Requires login.
SSRN - Social Science Research Network eLibrary
Contains both references and full-text OA material.
Unpaywall
Unpaywall is a browser extension (add-on) that helps you find OA versions of scientific articles. The link takes you to FinElib's instructions for using Unpaywall. The instructions provide a link to the website of the service.

Publication repositories – articles, theses and self-archived OA publications

Aaltodoc
Electronic publications of Aalto University, including theses.
DHanken
Digital repository of Hanken School of Economics
Helda
Digital publications of the University of Helsinki
Jultika
Repository of the University of Oulu
Juuli
Information about Finnish research organisations’ publications (universities, universities of applied sciences, government research institutes)
JYX
Jyväskylä University Digital Repository
Lauda
Repository of University of Lapland
LUTPub
Publication repository of LUT University
Osuva
Repository of University of Vaasa
Theseus
Theses and publications from Finnish universities of applied sciences.
Trepo
Repository of Tampere University
UEF Electronic Publications
Electronic publications of University of Eastern Finland
UTUPub
Repository of University of Turku