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Acquisition guidelines: General

Information resources acquisition

 
  • Acquiring materials and resources is part of the Library's collection work. 
  • We acquire information resources for the needs of Tampere Universities and Tampere University Hospital.
  • We develop our collection in accordance with the strategic goals of Tampere Universities and its key research and teaching areas by acquiring high-quality, up-to-date and versatile information resources.
  • Our collection consists of materials acquired by the Library as well as selected open access materials.
  • We acquire the resources mainly based on the acquisitions requests received from our customers. The acquisition is supplemented with materials selected by the Library's information specialists. We also exploit interlibrary loan services in acquisition.
  • We follow the University's general acquisition and tendering guidelines. 
  • We do not acquire materials for the use of departments or staff (for example for research groups, work rooms, or subject libraries). You can find more detailed instructions for ordering books in the higher education community's intranet.
  • We acquire e-resources based on IP authentication.

Flexible access to materials is also ensured through cooperation with other libraries. This takes into account the services offered by other libraries in the region, the interlibrary loan service and the article purchase service (Get It Now). The primary partner for interlibrary loans is the National Repository Library.

Open access agreements

  • The Library makes agreements for journal collections either directly with the publisher or with a national consortium, often either transformative or Read & Publish agreements. They include the right to read the journals and a contractually defined option to publish Open Access articles or the option to publish openly without a separate article processing charge (APC) or at a reduced charge.
  • The agreements are evaluated annually and must be financially sustainable. Any price increases should be moderate at most.
  • The Library provides discretionary support to open science infrastructures through membership and support fees, either through a national consortium or a service provider.
  • The Library is actively pursuing different agreement models that allow open access publishing as part of the contract, such as Subscribe to Open (S20), taking into account cost developments. The Library is also actively monitoring the development of contractual models for the open access publication of monographs and edited works.
  • Information about new and expiring agreements is shared with the higher education community through various channels.
  • The details of the signed agreements are entered in the Researcher's Guide and the journal lists are activated in the Journal Guide.

Contact us

In questions concerning information resources acquisition please contact: hankinta.kirjasto@tuni.fi

In questions concerning open publishing please contact: oa@tuni.fi

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