Welcome to research skills training by the Open Science Centre!

How to handle research data? How to choose a publication channel? How to utilize JYU's publication agreements? How to publish a doctoral dissertation? How is academic information seeking done? Can artificial intelligence be utilized, for example, in information seeking? What is open science and research? These questions, among others, are discussed in the Open Science Centre's (OSC) researcher and staff training, which is open to all JYU staff.

Regular group trainings are held mostly online:

Dissertation Start-up in English 23.10. and in Finnish 2.10. and 12.11.

Research data management: several trainings both online and on campus for both data containing personal data and data that do not include personal data.

Also other trainings for research data management, for example Open data clinic

Open access publishing in English 31.10. and in Finnish 11.10. and 20.11.

Choosing the publication channel in English 23.10. and in Finnish 9.10. and 14.11.

Open education in English 31.10. and in Finnish 11.10. and 20.11.

Openness of research methods in English 25.10. and in Finnish 9.10. and 15.11.

Research merits in English 25.10. and in Finnish 8.10. and 14.11.

It is also possible to get credit for doctoral studies courses from these research trainings:

LIBJ1001 Open Science and Research course (1 credit) suitable for completing the open science section of JOPS.
LIBJ2002 Collect, Manage and Publish Information course (2 credits).

There are general trainings, which are aimed at both staff and students, too. For example, learn how to manage references with Zotero training: Schedule and sign-up in Kongressi (change the language in upper right corner and search Zotero).

Learn more about training, schedules and sign up on JYU research site.

You can also contact Open Science Centre to book a customized training and personal or group consultations.

Further information: Marjo Vallittu

This staff training is part of staff development at JYU. For all scheduled staff training, please see the staff training calendar. To see all the ways JYU supports the development of your competence, go to the Uno Staff Portal and select the Learning and Wellbeing tab.