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.

Update: Presentations are available in Zenodo (zenodo.org) .

Programme

Wednesday 22 April

9:30 Coffee and registration
10:15 Erja Heikkinen, Director, Ministry of Education and Culture
10:30 Janne Kanner, Director, Services for Data Management, CSC
10:45 Yrjö Leino, CSC: Finnish research in light of OpenAlex data
11:15 Kyle Demes, OpenAlex: The past, present, and future of OpenAlex
12:00 Lunch (self-paid)
13:15 Natalia Manola, OpenAIRE: Powering Next-Generation Research Assessment: Why Open Infrastructures matter – and what you cannot afford to ignore
13:45 Till Bey, SURF: Open Science Commons NL: Dutch initiatives working towards a shared infrastructure vision
14:15 Cameron Neylon, Barcelona Declaration and CoARA Steering Boards: Sharing the load: Building an open research information collective
15:00 Coffee
15:30 Short talks: Nordic organizational experiences in utilising open data sources
– Karin Tegerstedt, Swedish Research Council
– Marja Kuittinen, University of Eastern Finland
– Jens Aasheim, Sikt – Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research
– Anna-Kaisa Hyrkkänen, Chair of the Finn-ARMA Publication Metrics Network, Aalto University
17:00 Day ends
18:00 Optional dinner (self-paid)

Thursday 23 April

8:45 Coffee and registration
9:15 Paolo Manghi, OpenAIRE: Building a Catalogue of Research Products for the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)
10:00 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 Open discussion break
11:00 Panel: National research information systems in the Nordic countries
– Nasjonalt vitenarkiv by Jan Erik Garshol, Sikt – Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research
– Danmarks Forskningsportal by Marija Rakas, Danmarks Statistik
– Research.fi by Joonas Nikkanen, CSC – IT Center for Science
– Swepub by Johan Fröberg, Kungliga biblioteket
12:30 Lunch (self-paid)

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