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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

Royal Society of Chemistry 2020-

FinELib and Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) made a new RSC REad & Publish agreement for 2019. The agreement includes both access to 40 chemistry journals published by RSC, and the right to publish one's article open access without additional payment. FinELib's agreement has 10 subscribers in total. The agreement ends on 31 December 2019.

FinELib is negotiating with RSC about a new agreement starting in 2020.

Sage 2020 -

Taylor & Francis 2020-

The negotiations between FinELib and Taylor & Francis have progressed. FinELib and Taylor & Francis have reached a mutual understanding of the main principles in the future agreement: access to journals and open access publishing. The negotiations on the details of the agreement continue. The parties' objective is to complete the agreement during the beginning of this year (2020).

Taylor & Francis has re-established access to journals to those organisations who had subscriptions to T&F journal packages in 2018. We will share full details about the agreement when it has been finalised.

IEL 2021

CellPress 2021 -

FinELib’s current CellPress collection agreement ends in the end of 2020. The negotiations for a new agreement will begin during the current year. CellPress collection, owned by Elsevier, contains more than twenty journals on the fields of biology, medicine and other natural sciences. The consortium member organizations can choose the titles they want from the annually growing collection to their own consortium subscription.

Science 2021 -

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. Negotiations on a new agreement will begin during 2020.

Nature 2021

American Chemical Society (ACS) 2021 -