Physics in Finland: Open science in the making

Annually, almost all of the three hundred peer-reviewed research articles written by HIP researchers are published in open channels. Thus, HIP is one of the leading institutes in open publishing in Finland. In the field of high energy physics, making articles globally available has long traditions, as already a quarter of a century ago open databases of articles in the field flourished. The great benefits of easy access to all articles were globally understood. Tightly connected to the HIP’s experimental group, HIP’s Open Data and Education is a showcase project contributing to Open Science. It is a strong actor in the open data project of the CMS experiment, bringing huge amounts of data for wider use in the scientific community and for school education. It has organised several courses to high-school teachers on the use of open data in education in Finland, as well as some training sessions at CERN. The project also organises visits from Finnish high schools to CERN. These kinds of outreach activities are an integral part of HIP.