
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 
Agreements with Wiley and Sage seem possible for next year. With Taylor & Francis the situation is challenging.
→ Read moreFinELib consortium continues to negotiate with several publishers to advance open publishing.
→ Read moreIn 2018 more than 1,000 open access articles were published in the journals of various publishers under agreements negotiated by the FinELib consortium.
→ 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 | Royal Society of Chemistry | Sage | Science Advances | Springer Nature | Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott
More information about publisher- and organisation-specific open access benefits is also available from your own library.