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Negotiations between FinELib and ACS are starting shortly.

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.

Negotiations between FinELib and IEEE are starting shortly.

Negotiations between FinELib and Springer Nature are starting shortly.

The negotiations between FinELib and OUP are due to start in the spring of 2020.

FinELib is finalizing a new agreement with Royal Society of Chemistry for 2020-2021. The agreement covers reading rights to RSC's 40 chemistry journals, as well as the right to publish articles open access without additional payment. FinELib's agreement has 10 subscribers in total.

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 early 2020.

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.

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.