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 
The following agreements have now been published as a response to the FOI request: Emerald agreement 2018-2020 and IEL agreement 2018.
→ Read moreThe FinELib-consortium and Wolters Kluwer have reached a 5-year agreement (2018-2022) regarding access to the Lippincott Total Access minus Neurology collection.
→ Read moreThe FinElib-consortium and Emerald have reached a 3-year agreement (2018-2020) regarding access to the Emerald Premier collection.
→ Read moreDiscussion 
Take advantage of
open access benefits
During negotiations, open access benefits have been agreed upon regarding the journals of the following publishers: Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Sage. Emerald, 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
Kansalliskirjasto
FinELib
PL 26 (Kaikukatu 4)
00014 HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO
Finland