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 
Why aren’t we purchasing access to scholarly publications at any price necessary? Check here to find out more about the FinELib negotiations and reasons why Taylor & Francis journals are behind a paywall.
→ Read moreNegotiations between the FinELib consortium and Taylor & Francis ended with no positive results. The end of the negotiations means that access to Taylor & Francis journals will end on 1 February 2019.
→ Read moreDuring holiday season please contact our service e-mail finelib@helsinki.fi in addition to personal e-mail addresses.
→ 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, Sage, Emerald, Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott, American Chemical Society, Springer Nature.
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