Academic journal costs

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Dear Royal Northern College of Music,

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

foi, Royal Northern College of Music

Dear Stuart Lawson

This message confirms receipt of your Freedom of Information request and we will respond in due course.

Kind regards

Deborah Williams
Academic Quality Manager
On behalf of the RNCM

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foi, Royal Northern College of Music

Dear Stuart

 

Please find below the RNCM response to your Freedom of Information
request:

 

16/17 17/18 18/19
Wiley 386.51 0 0
Springer 0 0 0
Elsevier 0 0 0
Taylor &
Francis 922.65 685.77 747.71
Sage 2019.97 1969.64 2097.2
OUP 766.07 730.33 771.62
CUP 1430.61 1135.45 1747.6
Nature Pub. 0 0 0
Royal
Society
Chemistry 0 0 0
Institution
of Physics 0 0 0

 

All costs are inclusive of VAT, where it applies, but the exact details on
which journal titles it applies to is not held.

 

Kind regards

 

 

Deborah Williams

Academic Quality Manager

On behalf of the RNCM

 

 

 

 

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Dear Deborah,

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