This event continues the yearly Nordic Spring Meetings bringing together bibliometricians, research information providers and policy analysts working on developing open infrastructures for bibliographic data and research information supporting policy and research. 

The aim of this meeting is to explore collaboration opportunities and identify key steps for creating sustainable and viable open infrastructure within a Nordic context. The Spring Meeting 2026 focuses on the architecture required to support openness and existing infrastructures enabling the use of bibliographic data and research information on a national and institutional level.  

Programme

Wednesday 22 April

9:45 Coffee and registration
10:15–10:45 Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture: Welcoming words
10:45–11:30 Kyle Demes (OpenAlex): The past, present, and future of OpenAlex
11:30–12:00 Yrjö Leino (CSC – IT Center for Science): Finnish research in light of OpenAlex data
12:00–13:00 Lunch (self paid)
13:00–13:30 Natalia Manola (OpenAIRE): Powering Next-Generation Research Assessment: Why Open Infrastructures matter – and what you cannot afford to ignore
13:30–14:00 Till Bey (SURF): Open Science Commons NL: Dutch initiatives working towards a shared infrastructure vision
14:00–14:45 Cameron Neylon (Barcelona Declaration and CoARA Steering Boards): Sharing the load: Building an open research information collective
14:45–15:00 Coffee
15:00–16:30 Organisation-level experiences of using open datasources in the Nordic countries

Thursday 23 April

8:45 Coffee and registration
9:15–10:00 Paulo Manghi (OpenAIRE): Building a Catalogue of Research Products for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)
10:00–10:30 Peter Aspeslagh (ECOOM, University of Antwerpen): The Flemish Organization Registry. Creating a local extension of a global database as identification instrument for a broader number of actors in the Flemish research landscape.
10:30–11:00 Open discussion break
11:00–12:30 National research information systems in the Nordic countries
12:30–13:30 Lunch (self paid)

This meeting is free of charge. For more information please contact Joonas Nikkanen, joonas.nikkanen@csc.fi.