Open Access and cooperation are the keys to the success of Finnish research and learning
FinELib is a consortium of Finnish universities, research institutions and public libraries. FinELib promotes availability of e-resources and open publishing.
On these pages, you can monitor negotiations on science journals. On Consortium pages, you can find more information on how the consortium operates.
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
News 
Open Access publishing free of charge for researchers is increasing rapidly. Due to FinELib agreements, 65% more Open Access articles were published during the year 2020 than the year before.
→ Read moreWhat are FinELib’s transformative agreements? What are their benefits to researchers? How do you determine a journal’s Plan S compliance?
→ Read moreThe report summarises the key conclusions of the project while also highlighting some of the actions institutions and stakeholders are urged to take to further promote the monitoring of APCs.
→ Read moreDiscussion 
Take advantage of
open access benefits
During negotiations, open access benefits have been agreed upon regarding the journals of the following publishers:
American Chemical Society | Elsevier | Emerald | IEEE | Oxford University Press | Royal Society of Chemistry | Sage | Science Advances | Springer Nature | Taylor & Francis | Wiley | Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott
More information about publisher- and organisation-specific open access benefits is also available from your own library.
FinELib
FinELib is a consortium of Finnish universities, research institutions and public libraries. Its mission is to secure and improve the availability of electronic resources. The consortiumoffice operates at the National Library of Finland.
Contact information
E-mail address:
finelib@helsinki.fi
Mailing address:
National Library of Finland
FinELib
PO Box 15
00014 University of Helsinki
Finland