The Consortium Requires
These principles are absolute requirements which must be met in order for a e-resource (product or service) license agreement to be signed.
Open Access principles are applied to scholarly journals/articles which are licensed directly from the publisher.
These principles are absolute requirements which must be met in order for an agreement to be signed.
Articles from corresponding authors affiliated to consortium members must be openly available at the time of publishing. Open access cannot be dependent on for example an author’s funding sources.
Agreements must enable corresponding authors from consortium members taking part in the agreements to publish estimatedly 100% of their articles open access in titles covered by the agreement.
Agreements must contain a mechanism to ensure that the value of the deal for the consortium members doesn’t diminish if titles are withdrawn.
The publisher must provide an author workflow that supports open access publishing. It must be possible to retrospectively correct errors due to workflow deficiencies.
If consortium members are required to verify authors’ eligibility to publish open access, the publisher must provide an online system/dashboard for this purpose to the libraries/information services. If the system is not in production at the start of the agreement term, it must become available sometime during the term.
Up to date reporting on consortium members’ publishing output must be made available to the libraries.
Publishers must provide the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY) for publications.
Authors or their institutions must have the right to retain copyright to their publications.
Agreements must be transparent. It must be permitted to make agreements available to the public.
Research data and services related to data management are outside the scope of FinELib negotiations.
The consortium licensing principles for electronic resources are applied also to open access agreement where applicable (for example accessibility).