Academic journal costs
Dear Falmouth University,
For the years 2017, 2018, and 2019, please publish the total amount paid to each of the following publishers for academic journals:
Wiley
Springer*
Elsevier
Taylor & Francis
Sage
Oxford University Press
Cambridge University Press
Nature Publishing Group*
Royal Society of Chemistry
Institute of Physics Publishing
I understand that your expenditure records may be held in academic financial years rather than calendar years. If so, I am happy for the response to be provided in the same format, with figures for 2016/17, 2017/18, and 2018/19. (Although 2019 has not ended yet, my understanding is that payments for access to journals for 2019 are likely to have all been made by now.)
The figures should include payments made directly to the publishers as well as any payments made to subscription agents or intermediaries for the purchase of, and/or access to, the publishers' academic journals. They should also include payment for journal packages such as Jisc Collections agreements, as well as for individual journals. Please include VAT where possible, and indicate whether or not figures include VAT.
I am aware that as a specialist institution, your expenditure with some of these publishers will be zero.
* Although Springer Nature is the parent company for these two publishers, my understanding is that Springer journals and Nature journals are still paid for separately, so I think it makes sense to regard these as two different publishers with different expenditure amounts.
Yours faithfully,
Stuart Lawson
Dear Mr Lawson
Freedom of Information Request FOI0488 – Total amounts paid to publishers
for academic journals
Thank you for your email of 25 October 2019 requesting information about
total amounts paid to publishers for academic journals.
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Dear Mr Lawson
Freedom of Information Request FOI0488 – Total amounts paid to publishers
for academic journals
Thank you for your email of 25 October 2019 requesting information about
total amounts paid to publishers for academic journals.
I am writing to advise you that the information you requested is not held
by this University. This University shares a campus and therefore
facilities and services, including Library services, with the University
of Exeter. These services are managed by a separate company, FXPlus.
FXPlus may hold the information you are seeking in respect of amounts paid
to publishers for academic journals.
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Yours sincerely
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Dear Information Office,
Thank you very much for your response. For your information, the collated data from all institutions is available here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3659970
Yours sincerely,
Stuart Lawson
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