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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.

FinELib is in the process of making a new Sage Premier agreement with Sage for years 2020-2022. The agreement will include access to approx. 950 Sage journals, as well as APC-free open access publishing for researchers in Sage hybrid journals. The details of the agreement will be finalized during January 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.

The 2014 Full Collection acquired from Wiley consists of approximately 1,250 journals from different scientific fields. Currently, 22 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 2019.

FinELib's current agreement (expires 31st December 2019) does not include open access.

The extensive negotiations with Wiley have resulted in significant progress and the new agreement will be most likely reached in early 2020. The agreement for 2020-2022 will include both read access to Wiley journals and element of Open Access publishing.

FinELib and IEEE have signed a 1-year agreement regarding access to the IEL database (consists of scientific journals, conference proceedings and standards from the fields of electrical engineering and computer science). The agreement also covers a small amount of free of charge open access articles in IEEE's fully open access journals.

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.

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.