The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies represents over 280 member societies and four science academies. It aims to advance cooperation between learned societies, scholarly communication and publishing, and promote research-based information in society. Key services include Journal.fi, an open access portal for over 100 Finnish journals, and Edition.fi, an online publishing platform. Journal.fi provides centralized publishing services to save member societies costs compared to decentralized alternatives. A 2019 survey found the main users of Journal.fi were students (40%) and researchers (36%).

1. Federation of Finnish Learned
Societies and learned publishing
Sami Syrjämäki

2. • Established 1899: national co-operative body for learned societies in
Finland
• Staff: about 36 +/- 2 persons (in projects)
• 282 member societies + 4 science academies
• Law on Federation of Finnish Learned socities mentions three basic tasks:
• Advance co-operation between learned societies
• Advance scholarly communication and learned publishing
• Promote research based information in society
• Nowadays also running Publication Forum (Janne Pölönen) and
coordinating open Science on national level (Henriikka Mustajoki)
• What else? See: www.tsv.fi/en
Federation of Finnish Learned Societies
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3. • Bookstore Tiedekirja (annual turnover about 330 000 euros)
• Logistics central and storage for learned publications (about 200 000
books and journals)
• Internationl exchange centre for scientific literature (based on
UNESCO convention)
• Policy work nationally and internationally
• And today’s specialty: Journal.fi and Edition.fi
Publishing services
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4. Finnish scholarly publishing landscape

5. • Open access portal for learned journals
• Currently over 100 journals with diamond open access (only few have
embargo, no APCs)
• Free for member societies, nominal price for others (about 200 e /
year)
• Flexible to individual journal branding (unlike megarjournals)
Important motivational factor for volunteers working for a journal
• High level on information/data connections to national and
internationl databases (slide coming up…)
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6. • TSV takes care of maintenance, development and training of users.
• Development by plugins but we also do programming for the main engine
fulfilling wishes of Finnish journals but offering new possibilities for the
whole world
• Budget for the Journal.fi –project (connected to another larger OA-project)
was about 115 000 euros, mainly for programming but also for translations
and some info- or pr-travel expensis and materials.
• Nowday one full time person taking care of programming and other
techical help, one person taking care most of the training (part time) +
Sami Syrjämäki with general reponsibility including policy
• Centralized service creates substantial savings compared to de-centralazed
solution. E.g. just our deal with CrossRef saves annually 17 000 euros and
more as more journals start to use DOIs
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8. • Just before library lockdowns
• The two largest groups were students (40%) and
researchers (36%), followed by private citizens (8%),
other experts (7%) and teachers (5%).
• Other identified user roles include journalists, civil
servants, entrepreneurs and politicians.
Survey of Journal.fi -users
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Role Users Share
Student 266 40 %
Researcher 240 36 %
Private citizen 52 8 %
Other expert 49 7 %
Teacher 35 5 %
Journalist 9 1 %
Civil servant 7 1 %
Entrepreneur 8 1 %
Politician 2 0 %
All users 668 100 %

9. And next Janne Pölönen
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