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The FinELib consortium and the American Chemical Society have an agreement on ACS journals for 2018-2020. The agreement offers authors an opportunity to access and use ACS journals and publish their articles open access for free using granted credits. Negotiations on a new agreement have started in May.

FinELib has a three year agreement (2018-2020) on Science Direct Freedom Collection journals with Elsevier. SD Freedom Collection is a large interdisciplinary scholarly journal package. The agreement offers users an opportunity to access and use SD Freedom journals and authors possibility to publish their articles open access with a discount in Elsevier journals.

FinELib has also a one year agreement (2020) on Cell Press collection containing journals on the fields of biology, medicine and other natural sciences. Agreement allows users to access and use Cell Press journals but does not include open access element.

The negotiations for a new agreement that covers both journal packages have started in June.

FinELib has a 1-year agreement regarding the computer and electrical engineering database IEL. Negotiations about a new agreement term are ongoing between FinELib and IEEE. Access to the database and open access publishing are both under negotiation.

The negotiations between FinELib and OUP started in the spring of 2020.

FinELib is finalizing a new agreement with Royal Society of Chemistry for 2020-2021. The agreement covers reading rights to RSC's 40 chemistry journals, as well as the right to publish articles open access without additional payment. FinELib's agreement has 10 subscribers in total.

The FinELib consortium and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) made a one year agreement on the Science Journals for 2020.

The fields of the journals are mainly medicine and natural sciences. The journals contain also articles on other fields such as economics, education, philosophy and history of science and sociology. The consortium member organizations can subscribe to one or several titles. There are less than ten journals to choose from.

Publisher's quote has been presented to the consortium members and the binding enrolment period is over. The agreement text is being finalized.

Negotiations between FinELib and Springer Nature regarding access to Nature journals and Springer Compact collections are ongoing. In addition open access publishing is part of the negotiations regarding Compact.