Academic journal costs

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Dear Durham 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 of the previous request sent by S. Goodman in April 2018 (https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/a...), so do not require the figures for 2017 for the publishers Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, Taylor & Francis, and Sage.

* 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

ACCESS I., University of Durham

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ACCESS I., University of Durham

Dear Mr Lawson

 

Thank you for your request for information from Durham University.
Colleagues have provided the information below in response to your
questions.

 

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 of the previous request sent by S. Goodman in April 2018
([1]https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/a...), so
do not require the figures for 2017 for the publishers Elsevier, Wiley,
Springer, Taylor & Francis, and Sage.

 

* 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.

 

 

  2017 2018 2019
Wiley £309,081.43 £319,051.03 £324,133.95
Springer £160,745.64 £171,148.65 £169,036.71
Elsevier £608,867.73 £624,928.54 £637,714.17
Taylor & £255,565.00 £280,228.94 £309,424.05
Francis
Sage £126,704.00 £133,895.17 £140,035.74
Oxford £65,311.92 £68,736.94 £72,976.94
University
Press
Cambridge £49,851.67 £51,413.70 £53,375.20
University
Press
Nature £72,970.80 £83,169.60 £90,189.60
Publishing
Group
Royal £27,432.00 £28,791.60 £30,219.60
Society of
Chemistry
Institute £62,763.95 £69,232.80 £72,445.20
of Physics
Publishing
All
figures
include
VAT

 

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Dear Durham University,

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