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Open Journal Finder integrates Finland's JuFo Classification, signs first Finnish university. ConsortiaManager announced two milestones for the Finnish research community: the integration of Finland's JuFo publication classification into its Open Journal Finder tool, and the adoption of Open Journal Finder by the University of Jyväskylä, one of Finland's leading research universities. Together, these developments make Open Journal Finder the first tool to combine JuFo levels with institutional agreement data in a single, researcher-facing interface. The JuFo classification is uniquely consequential in Finland. Maintained by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies and evaluated by 23 discipline-specific expert panels comprising some 300 scholars, JuFo rates publication channels on a three-level scale: Level 1 (basic), Level 2 (leading), and Level 3 (highest). Since 2015, the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture has used JuFo as a quality indicator in its university funding model, where scientific publications account for 14% of universities' basic funding. In practice, this means the journal a Finnish researcher publishes in directly affects their institution's bottom line. [Full Announcement].

ConsortiaManager crosses the channel: First UK institution signs on. ConsortiaManager announced that the University of the Arts London has become the first UK institution to adopt its Open Journal Finder and Transformative Agreement Manager. The partnership marks ConsortiaManager's entry into the UK market and brings the Copenhagen-based company's suite of library and open access tools to one of the world's most internationally diverse universities - ranked #2 globally for Art and Design by the QS World University Rankings. [Full Announcement].

Consortium data shows which open access paths are safe: Now researchers can see it too. Library consortia hold some of the most valuable data in scholarly publishing: a detailed, continuously updated record of which journals and publishers have passed institutional vetting through Read & Publish agreements. Until now, that data has lived in spreadsheets, license databases, and consortium back offices - invisible to the researchers who need it most. ConsortiaManager today announced that its Open Journal Finder has been adopted by 40 institutions since launch, making consortium-level journal vetting data directly accessible to researchers navigating an increasingly treacherous publishing landscape. [Full Announcement].