Academic journal costs

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Dear Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts,

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 Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts,

The response to my request is overdue. Could you assure me that it is being dealt with please?

Yours faithfully,

Stuart Lawson

Adams, Ray, Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts

Hi Stuart,

We have no record of your original request.

Can you please re-submit?

All the best.

Ray Adams
Director of Administration and Personnel
The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts/LIPA Learning Group
Direct Line: 0151 330 3090
Switchboard: 0151 330 3000

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Dear Ray,

Thank you for your email. My request was sent through What Do They Know, and is available at: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/a...

My follow up message was in the same way as a reply to the original one, so I'm not sure why it didn't reach you. I've copied it for you below.

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 sincerely,

Stuart Lawson

Dear Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts's handling of my FOI request 'Academic journal costs'.

My request is now well overdue.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/a...

For your information, the collated data from all institutions that have responded to my requests is available here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3659970

Yours faithfully,

Stuart Lawson

Adams, Ray, Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts

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Hi Stuart,

Please find the response to your request attached.

I will look into why the data wasn't sent to you after it was compiled - it was put together some weeks ago.

So, apologies for the delay.

If you need anything else, let me know.

All the best.

Ray

Ray Adams
Director of Administration and Personnel
The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts/LIPA Learning Group
Direct Line: 0151 330 3090
Switchboard: 0151 330 3000

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Dear Ray,

Thanks very much for this. I'll assume that you don't subscribe to any journals from the publishers that are not listed in your response.

Yours sincerely,

Stuart Lawson