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FinELib is a consortium of Finnish universities, research institutions and public libraries. It negotiates e-resource license agreements for the Finnish scholarly community. On these pages, you can monitor the progress and results of these negotiations.

Our Goals

→ Prices of scholarly publications must be reasonable.

→ Information must be openly available.

→ Transition to open access must be possible without any additional costs.

→ Terms of use for articles must be appropriate and easy to understand.

Status of
Negotiations

Ongoing negotiations

American Chemical Society (ACS) 2021 -

Elsevier 2021 -

FinELib has a three year agreement (2018-2020) on Science Direct Freedom Collection journals with Elsevier. SD Freedom Collection is a large interdisciplinary scholarly journal package. The agreement offers users an opportunity to access and use SD Freedom journals and authors possibility to publish their articles open access with a discount in Elsevier journals.

FinELib has also a one year agreement (2020) on Cell Press collection containing journals on the fields of biology, medicine and other natural sciences. Agreement allows users to access and use Cell Press journals but does not include open access element.

The negotiations for a new agreement that covers both journal packages have started in June.

IEEE 2021

Springer Nature 2021

Oxford University Press (OUP) 2021 -

Royal Society of Chemistry 2020-

Science 2021 -

The FinELib consortium and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) made a one year agreement on the Science Journals for 2020. The fields of the journals are mainly medicine and natural sciences. The journals contain also articles on other fields such as economics, education, philosophy and history of science and sociology. The consortium member organizations can subscribe to one or several titles. There are less than ten journals to choose from. FinELib has received a quote from the publisher and the negotiations are under way.