Hijacked or cloned journals are fake websites that imitate legitimate academic publishers. These scams use the names, ISSNs, and other details of real scholarly journals to trick researchers. The goal is to take advantage of the original journal's reputation, convincing researchers to submit their articles and pay article processing charges (APC) to the fraudulent publisher.
Part of FinELib’s negotations on scientific journal agremeents with open access benefits are still ongoing.
The library offers assistance with issues related to open publishing and the management and opening of research data for the Research Council of Finland Winter Call 2025.
The Research Council of Finland requires researchers and research projects it funds to make research outputs funded by the Council immediately open upon publication.
The library has signed two new open access publishing agreements for the University of Turku with publishers of medical journals. In addition, the agreement from last year with the Radiological Society of North America, allowing for publishing in the publisher's four journals, has been extended until the end of 2024. The agreements provide authors with the opportunity for free open access publishing.
The FinELib Consortium for acquisition of e-resources is still in the middle of negotiations with several publishers of scientific journals. Apart from the journals of the ACS, users can so far read the newest journals of these publishers although the new agreements are not finished yet. During the negotiations, open access publishing varies by publisher.
Negotiations between the FinELib Consortium for acquisition of e-resources and seven scientific journal publishers are still going on. Different publishers are at different stages – some progress is promising but it is still uncertain whether agreements will be concluded.
In Research Council of Finland’s winter call 2024 the library is there to help you to describe how you are going to open your research data and publications.