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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 negotiating with Sage about a new Sage Premier agreement starting in 2020. FinELib's aim is to reach an agreement, which would cover both article processing charges (APC's) and access to Sage's journals.

FinELib's current Sage Premier agreement includes access to 950 Sage journals, and an 87,5% discount to Sage hybrid title APC's. FinELib's agreement has 27 subscribers in total. The agreement ends on 31 December 2019.

The agreement between FinELib consortium and Taylor & Francis expired 31 December 2018 and the negotiations for the renewal of the agreement ended without positive results.

FinELib’s goal was to get open access included in the T&F agreement in a way that enables researchers to publish open access without extra fees. The negotiations came to an end because the publisher and the consortium have highly differing views of reasonable costs.

For more information, please see the press release Negotiations with Taylor & Francis hit a wall (28 January 2019).

The Taylor & Francis agreement (2017 - 2018) included access to approximately 1,800 journals from different scientific fields and a discount (-60%) of 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)

Due to the fact that the consortium does not have an agreement with T&F, the Finnish researchers do not have access to most of the T&F e-collections. The consortium members’ libraries and information services assist researchers, teachers and students in searching for articles through open access channels and interlibrary loans.

On the consortium’s common Alternative access web page you can find a list of different tools and channels that can be useful.

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 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 (excluding OA element) is extended with unchanged conditions until 31st December 2019. The negotiations on the new agreement (including OA element) are carried on instantly.

Read more in FinELib news released 5.4.2019.