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.
The independent scientific academy of the UK, the Royal Society, was founded in the 1660s. Royal Society publishes journals across the entire range of science. From April 1, 2023, the library has made one-year agreement with the publisher for University of Turku allowing the corresponding authors affiliated to University of Turku to publish their articles Open Access with 25 % discount of the APCs.
The agreement between Taylor & Francis and FinELib consortium for the agreement period 2023-24 is complete. The agreement includes both reading rights and open access publishing free of extra charge for the staff and students of University of Turku.
The Library keenly follows how the funds reserved for open access publishing in its license agreements are used. At the moment, the funds in two such agreements is running out. Those of the library’s license agreements that include open access publishing have mainly been negotiated by FinELib, a consortium of Finnish higher education institutions, research institutes and public libraries. However the library has also entered into some such agreements directly with the publishers.