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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

SPRINGER NATURE

Springer has developed a model for its hybrid jounrals (SpringerCompact) which combines license fees and open access article processing charges. Some countries (for example the Netherlands, Sweden and UK) have signed these kind of agreements with Springer.

FinELib has received multiple offers for a SpringerCompact agreement.

As a temporary solution we have signed a traditional license agreement without an open access element for the time period 1.1.2018-3o.4.2018.

Negotiations for a Springer Compact deal are still ongoing.

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.

During the current round of negotiations, Wiley has presented an offer which includes open access in hybrid journals. Negotiations are still ongoing.

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 negotiations for a new agreement term are ongoing. The goal for 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.

News

University rectors demand scholarly publishers to transition to open access

25.9.2018

The license negotiations with scholarly publishers must advance the transition to open access publishing, the Finnish university rectors demand in a statement published today. Universities Finland UNIFI gives its full support to FinELib consortium’s negotiation goals.

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New FinELib agreements published

9.8.2018

FinELib agreements with Wiley, Wolters Kluwer and the American Chemical Society have now been published as a response to the FOI request.

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FinELib signed an agreement with American Chemical Society

9.8.2018

The FinElib-consortium and the American Chemical Society (ACS) have signed a 3-year agreement (2018-2020). The agreement covers access to ACS journals and free credits for open access publishing.

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