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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.

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 2018.

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

The agreement with Wiley expired on 31st December 2018. The negotiations are still going on and the subscribing institutions have access to the journals for the time being.

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 negotiation ended with no agreement, read more in FinELib news.

News

Agreement between Royal Society of Chemistry and FinELib promotes open access in chemistry

25.2.2019

FinELib and Royal Society of Chemistry have made a new RSC Read & Publish -agreement for 2019.

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FinELib’s negotiations with Wiley continue

21.2.2019

The previous agreement between FinELib and Wiley came to an end on December 31, 2018. Prolonged negotiations haven’t yet affected the daily life of researchers and students.

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Questions and answers about FinELib’s negotiations

7.2.2019

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.

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