FinELib has finalized new two-year agreements with Elsevier and IEEE. The new agreement with Emerald was signed for the year 2024. The agreements allow open access publishing and access to the publishers' journals.
The new agreements meet the goals of the consortium: they will diminish the costs for reading and publishing in scientific journals while giving the scientific community in Finland a wide access to the necessary articles.
All three agreements allow publishing articles under the CC BY license required by many research funding organizations. Post-cancellation access ensures continuous access to articles published during the agreement term, even if the current agreement is not renewed in the future.
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