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FinELib consortium centrally acquires electronic materials products and services for its member organisations. Consortium members include Finnish universities, universities of applied sciences, research institutes and public libraries (see the list of consortium members). Each member decides independently what materials products/services to subscribe to order 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 on behalf of the consortium members and invoices licence 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 an independent decision about their subscription.
• Each subscriber acquires the materials the e-resources for the entire organisation, not for eg. single departments.
• Authentication is based on IP addresses.
• Higher education institutions and research institutes must be given the right for remote use.
• Materials acquired by the consortium must fulfil the licensing principles of the consortium.
• Subscriber specific usage statistics must be provided, preferably according to COUNTER Code of Practice.
• 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 can be used, where the overall price of the e-materials will be redistributed within the consortium among the subscribers. You are free to base your product pricing on the consortium members user amountsfigures. The invoicing is done centrally by the FinELib office, so you can send one invoice 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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