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The FinELib consortium centrally acquires electronic materials products and services for its member organisations. The consortium Consortium members are include Finnish universities, universities of applied sciences, research institutes and public libraries (see the list of consortium members). Each member evaluates what materials to order decides independently what products/services to subscribe to through the consortium. The consortium’s service unit, the FinELib office, is located in the National Library, . The FinELib office negotiates the agreements and pricing, collects orders from consortium members, signs the agreements and charges licence on behalf of the consortium members and invoices license fees from consortium members.

Important considerations for consortium acquisitions

Note the following  considerations to be taken into account regarding materials acquired by FinELib consortium include:

• Each consortium member makes the an independent decision on about their own ordersubscription.
• Ordering parties acquire the materials for use by Each subscriber acquires the e-resources for the entire      organisation, not for eg. single departments.
• Authentication takes place is based on IP addresses.
• Higher education institutions and research institutes must be      provided with the right for remote use.
• Materials acquired by the consortium must fulfil the licensing principles of the consortium.
• Ordering party -Subscriber specific usage statistics must be provided on      the use of the materials, preferably according to COUNTER recommendationsCode of Practice.If the material acquisition must be submitted to competitive      tendering pursuant to public procurement legislation, a competitive      tendering procedure will be organised instead of negotiations.  Materials subject to competitive      tendering are materials that are available from several publishers or      agents and the acquisition value of which exceeds the threshold value      determined in legislation.
• If so required under the law, an acquisition will be made through a public tendering process. A public tendering process will be held if the e-resource is available from multiple sources and the value of the resource exceeds the threshold value defined in the public procurement law.  

Acquisition principles

E-resources acquired by the consortium must fulfil the FinELib Consortium Acquisition Principles. 

Pricing

The FinELib consortium does not charge commission on e-materials resources acquired through the consortium. Members pay the subscription price determined by negotiated with the publisher or the agent for the materials. With regard to journal packages, the cost division model of the consortium will be used, according to which the overall price of the e-materials will be redistributed within the consortium among to the parties ordering the materials.If you wish, you can . You are free to base your product pricing on user numbers of the consortium members user figures. The invoicing is done centrally by the FinELib office, so that you can send just one invoice to the for FinELib consortium.

New materials

New e-resources

The consortium selects new e-resources Every year, consortium members select some new materials for consortium negotiations by specific procedure. The materials are selected by selection is based on a vote in which all consortium member organisations may participate.If you wish to market your products

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