
Welcome!
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
News 
New agreement on Science Journals is completed.
→ Read moreThe number of articles published Open Access due to FinELib agreements increased by 73 % compared with last year.
→ Read moreNew agreement with Taylor & Francis after one intervening year is finished.
→ 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 | 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.