Kuopio-konferenssit ovat perinteisesti koonneet yhteen kirjojen varastoinnista ja varastokirjastopalveluista kiinnostunutta kirjastoväkeä eri maista. Kuudes Kuopio-konferenssi järjestettiin tänä vuonna Baselissa ja sen ohjelmaan kuului vierailu robotisoituun varastokirjastoon, Kooperative Speicherbibliothekiin. Suomesta konferenssiin osallistuivat apulaiskirjastonjohtaja Liisa Savolainen ja palvelujohtaja Johanna Lilja Kansalliskirjastosta sekä Varastokirjaston entinen kirjastonjohtaja Pentti Vattulainen ja nykyinen kirjastonjohtaja Johanna Vesterinen.

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This report summarises the papers and discussions presented at the Scholarly Journals and Research Data Seminar organised by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies and the Finnish Association for Scholarly Publishing in February 2017. Stricter policies on storing research data in repositories and opening it are now being implemented. In fact, 27 per cent of research funders now require data archiving, including the Academy of Finland. The seminar brought together funders, researchers and representatives from journals and data archives to discuss how archiving and opening data should be carried out and the role played by journals. The questions asked included: Should journals require their authors to link their text to research data or should they only encourage such action? Should journals guide their authors to use central national or international data archives or should they establish their own separate data repositories, for example in connection with the Finnish national data service IDA?

Examines the international exchange of publications of two Finnish learned societies: the Finnish Literature Society and the Finnish Antiquarian Society from their foundation until the outbreak of the First World War. The exchange of publications had two purposes: it was a means of acquiring international literature for the libraries of the societies and a way of distributing results of research to foreign scholars. In spite of the availability of texts written in the Finnish language and on Finnish subjects, the Finnish societies received many foreign exchange proposals. Relevancy of the received publications was usually not criticized and all the offers were accepted. These two societies trusted in the exchange as a means of distributing their studies internationally, and did not seriously endeavour to find commercial distribution channels for their publications.

This report examines the actions taken for promoting the green OA in Finnish scholarly journals and their effects in 2016 and 2017. A Finnish-language form for suggesting publisher policies to SHERPA/RoMEO database was developed. It was linked into instructions for applying the government subsidy of scholarly publishing. Finally, a resolution on archiving was negotiated with the copyright organization responsible for distributing remunerations of a national license based article database (Elektra). Due to these actions, the number of announced self-archiving policies rose from 27 to 53. 24 policies were collected via the Finnish form and sent to SHERPA/RoMEO. In this connection, some shortages in SHERPA/RoMEO service were noted. First, relaying the publishers' policies to service is not a quick procedure. It took approximately 6-7 weeks to get new policies and updates through to the database. Secondly, the metadata in SHERPA/RoMEO may cause problems because it is not stored in any structured way. Especially, the widely used colour code system is problematic.