Academic journal costs

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Dear SRUC,

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 small 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

Devon Taylor, SRUC

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Devon

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Dear Devon,

Thank you very much for providing this data. For your information, the collated data from all institutions is available here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3659970

Yours sincerely,

Stuart Lawson

Devon Taylor, SRUC

Thank you for your email. I am currently out of the office and will reply
on my return.  I will be not have email access on Thursday 20 February.

Please note my working days are Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. 

Kind regards

Devon

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e-mail or its attachments which does not relate to SRUC's or SAC
Commercial Limited's official business is neither given nor endorsed by
SRUC or SAC Commercial Limited.

SRUC
A Charitable company limited by guarantee, Scottish Charity Number:
SC003712.
Registered in Scotland, Company Number: SC103046 - Registered Office:
Peter Wilson Building, King’s Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9
3JG
SAC Commercial Limited, an SRUC company
Registered in Scotland, Company Number: SC148684 - Registered Office:
Peter Wilson Building, King’s Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9
3JG