Open Access Publishing After the Turn of the Year

19.12.2024

FinELib is currently negotiating the continuation of scientific journal agreements that expire at the end of 2024. Free open access publishing under FinELib agreements may be put on hold if a new agreement is not ready by the turn of the year.

If a new agreement is not finalized by the end of the year, open access publishing under FinELib agreements may be paused starting from January 1, 2025, in the journals of the following publishers:

  • Association for Computer Machinery (ACM)
  • Cell Press
  • Emerald
  • Lippincott
  • Nature
  • Sage
  • Taylor & Francis
  • Wiley

The article quotas included in the agreements with Taylor & Francis and Wiley have already been exhausted. Some organizations have continued open access publishing even after this, so please check the situation with your organization’s library or information service.

I’m about to publish my article in a journal from one of these publishers – what should I do?

What happens with the open access publishing of your article depends on the date of acceptance of your article

If the publisher/journal accepts your article during 2024, it can be published open access as part of FinELib's current agreement. provided there are remaining article quotas in the agreement.

If the acceptance of the article falls into 2025, open access publishing can’t be covered by the current agreement. FinELib’s aim is that articles from early 2025 could be retrospectively published open access, if an agreement is reached later in 2025. However, this depends on the final negotiation outcome and cannot be guaranteed.

If no new agreement would be reached with some publishers, open access publishing as part of the FinELib agreement with those publishers would end on December 31, 2024. However, negotiations are still ongoing with all publishers. New agreements will be announced once they are signed.

Please also check FinELib’s guides for open access publishing under existing FinELib agreements, and contact the library of information service of your own organisation if you need additional guidance.

I want to read journals from these publishers – how can I do that?

As negotiations with the publisher continue, access to journals is often granted during negotiation period, even if the old agreement period has ended. Access to journals will thus mostly continue as usual, even if negotiations extend into 2025.

Open access publishing for other FinELib agreements continues as usual

The FinELib consortium also has open access publishing agreements with the following publishers:

  • Cambridge University Press
  • IEEE
  • Elsevier (ScienceDirect Freedom journals)
  • Oxford University Press
  • Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
  • Springer Nature (Springer Compact journals)

These agreements will continue until the end of 2024, and open access publication with these publishers will continue as normal.