Keyword: Open access

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 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.

Library has negotiated an agreement with Company of Biologists for University of Turku until the end of 2024. The agreement contains the right for the corresponding author affiliated to University of Turku to publish Open Access free of charge in the five journals listed below.

As part of the FinElib consortium the University of Turku researchers are entitled to open access benefits which the consortium has negotiated. These benefits include discounts on the article processing charges.

Starting the year 2020 University of Turku has taken part in the agreement negotiated by the national library consortium FinELib with the publisher Taylor & Francis. The three-year-agreement enables open publishing without extra charge in vast majority of the journals published by Taylor & Francis.

Researchers at the University of Turku now have the opportunity to publish open access free of charge in all Nature Research journals, except for the journal Nature Protocols, but including titles that are founded during the agreement period ending December 31, 2024. The FinELib Consortium Agreement is yet to be finalised, but the publisher has already opened up the possibility for open access publishing.

Open access publishing benefits researchers in many ways: the visibility and accessibility of research are improved, search engines find open access articles better and they get more citations.

Open access publishing benefits researchers in many ways: the visibility and accessibility of research are improved, search engines find open access articles better and they get more citations.