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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.

Open access benefits

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

Wiley 2019-

The 2014 Full Collection acquired from Wiley consists of approximately 1,290 journals from different scientific fields. Currently, 21 FINELIB ORGANISATIONS subscribe to the collection.

Wiley is one of the largest and most expensive journal collections of FinELib. Finnish universities and research institutions paid roughly EUR 3 million for Wiley e-resources in 2016 (source: INFORMATION ABOUT PUBLISHING PRICES COLLECTED BY THE ATT PROJECT).

FinELib's current agreement does not include open access. In 2016, the Netherlands signed an agreement with Wiley, including access to paywalled articles and open access in hybrid journals. In addition to Finland, other European countries are negotiating over the inclusion of open access in the agreement.

Negotiations are in a challenging situation, read more in FinELib news released 14.12.2018

Taylor & Francis 2019-

FinELib’s current Taylor&Francis agreement (2017-2018) consists of approximately 1,800 journals from different scientific fields. 19 organizations subscribe to the collection, 4 of them to a smaller sub-collection. The agreement includes the possibility for a 60% discount on T&F APC fees.

Finnish universities and research institutions paid roughly EUR 1,5 million for T&F full text e-resources in 2017 (Source: Academic publisher costs in Finland 2010–2017, Ministry of Education and Culture of Finland)

The goal of the negotiations is to get open access included in the T&F agreement in a way that enables researchers to publish open access without extra fees. For example the Netherlands and Sweden have signed with T&F read and publish agreements, which include both access to articles behind paywall and open access publishing.

The negotiations are in a challenging situation, read more in FinELib news released 14.12.2018

News

season’s greetings and good wishes for the new year

19.12.2018

During holiday season please contact our service e-mail finelib@helsinki.fi in addition to personal e-mail addresses.

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FinELibs avtalsförhandlingar med Taylor & Francis och Wiley – en utmanande situation

14.12.2018

FinELibs nuvarande avtal med Taylor & Francis och Wiley är i kraft t.o.m. 31.12.2018. Eftersom detta datum närmar sig, förbereder konsortiemedlemmarna sig på olika scenarier för att ge forskarna tillgång till nödvändiga artiklar, oavsett vad som händer med förhandlingar.

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FinELib’s negotiations with Taylor & Francis and Wiley: A Challenging situation

14.12.2018

FinELib’s current contracts with Taylor & Francis and Wiley will expire on December 31, 2018. As that date approaches, the FinELib consortium members are preparing for various scenarios to provide scholars access to necessary articles with minimal disruption or delay, regardless of what happens with the negotiations.

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