Welcome!
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
News 
New agreement with Taylor & Francis after one intervening year is finished.
→ Read moreFinELib Consortium finances DOAJ, Sherpa/RoMEO and SPARC Europe
→ Read moreWiley and SAGE have agreed that their agreements with FinELib can be published. The texts of the 3-year agreements can now be read freely.
→ Read moreDiscussion 
Take advantage of
open access benefits
During negotiations, open access benefits have been agreed upon regarding the journals of the following publishers:
American Chemical Society | Elsevier | Emerald
IEEE | Royal Society of Chemistry | Sage
Science Advances | Springer Nature | Taylor & Francis | Wiley
Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott
More information about publisher- and organisation-specific open access benefits is also available from your own library.
FinELib
FinELib is a consortium of Finnish universities, research institutions and public libraries. Its mission is to secure and improve the availability of electronic resources. The consortiumoffice operates at the National Library of Finland.
Contact
National Library of Finland
FinELib
PO Box 15
00014 University of Helsinki
Finland