Publish Open Access
FinELib licence agreements for scholarly journals include open access benefits. They enable the corresponding authors to publish their articles openly, either free of article processing charges or with a discounted price.
Terms under which the benefits are available and the processes of the publishers vary.
The benefits agreed are listed below. More information is available from your own library or information service.
Instructions to the Corresponding Author
ACM
The agreement allows authors to publish their research open access in ACM’s titles at no additional charge.
Cambridge University Press
Authors can publish their research open access in CUP’s hybrid and Gold journals at no additional charge.
Elsevier
Authors can publish their articles open access without an article processing charge or with a 15% discount on APC’s, depending on the journal.
Elsevier Cell Press
The agreement allows authors to publish their articles open access without article processing charge (APC) in Cell Press hybrid journals.
Emerald
The agreement with Emerald offers authors an opportunity to publish their articles without article processing charge under the CC BY-license with a free open access voucher.
IEEE
The agreement with IEEE offers the opportunity to publish articles open access without an article processing charge in IEEE’s hybrid and fully open access journals.
Medical Journals Sweden
Authors can publish their research open access in MJS journals at no cost to themselves.
Nature Research
The agreement with Springer Nature includes open access publishing in Nature Research hybrid titles without article processing charge (APC).
Open Library of Humanities
Authors can publish open access in OLH journals at no cost to themselves.
Oxford University Press
The agreement allows authors to publish their research open access in OUP’s hybrid journals at no additional charge. A 15 % APC discount is available for articles in OUP’s fully OA journals.
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Authors can publish their articles open access in RSC hybrid journals without additional payment, since the costs have been covered as a part of FinELib consortium’s agreement.
Sage
Authors can publish their research open access in Sage’s hybrid journals at no additional charge. Articles in Sage’s Fully OA (Gold) journals will either receive a 20 % discount on the APC or be fully covered depending on the model chosen by institutions.
Science Journals
Authors from participating institutions receive a 15 % APC discount for articles published in Science Advances. For other AAAS journals, authors may deposit the author accepted version of their article to a public repository under a CC BY license immediately at publication.
SCOAP3
High-Energy Physics articles can be published Open Access in SCOAP3 journals at no cost to authors.
Springer Nature
The agreement includes open access publishing in Springer’s hybrid Compact-collection titles without article processing charge (APC).
Taylor & Francis
The agreement includes an opportunity to publish a limited amount of articles open access without additional payment in Taylor & Francis Open Select standard rate journals and Open Access journal Annals of Medicine.
Wiley
The agreement with Wiley enables the authors to publish their articles open access in Wiley’s Full OA and hybrid journals without additional payment.
Wolters Kluwer Lippincott
The agreement offers an opportunity to publish articles open access without article processing charge for the author in Lippincott journals.
Take advantage of open access benefits
During negotiations, open access benefits have been agreed upon regarding the journals of the following publishers.
More information about publisher- and organisation-specific open access benefits is also available from your own library.