Academic journal costs

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Dear City University London,

For the years 2015 and 2016, please publish the total amount paid to each of the following publishers for academic journals:

Wiley
Springer
Elsevier
Taylor & Francis
De Gruyter
Sage
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 2014/15, and 2015/16.

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.

Yours faithfully,

Stuart Lawson

Sesay, Saidu, City, University of London

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Dear Stuart Lawson,

Thank you for your request for information (see below) received
on 01/12/2016.

 

Your request is being dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 and will be answered within twenty working days.

Please contact me if you have any queries, quoting reference number
2016/265.

 

Dear City University London,

 

For the years 2015 and 2016, please publish the total amount paid to each
of the following publishers for academic journals:

 

Wiley

Springer

Elsevier

Taylor & Francis

De Gruyter

Sage

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 2014/15, and
2015/16.

 

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.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Stuart Lawson

 

 

 

Yours Sincerely,

 

Saidu Sesay

Information Compliance Officer, IT

City, University of London

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Dear Stuart Lawson,

 

Please find attached our response to your information request.

 

 

 

Yours Sincerely,

 

Saidu Sesay

Information Compliance Officer, IT

City, University of London

Northampton Square

London EC1V 0HB

T: +44 (0)20 7040 8224

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Dear Saidu,

Thank you for providing most of the information.

I find your response regarding the amount paid to Elsevier fascinating, but I am afraid I can't accept it. The license in question is the 2012-16 ScienceDirect license, and you have already released information for the first three years of the contract: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/e...

It is therefore illogical to claim confidentiality on the 2015 and 2016 figures. Especially since every other university has already provided 2012-14 figures (see https://figshare.com/articles/Journal_su...), and all universities that have responded so far to my new requests have also released 2015 and 2016 figures (see https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/user/stua...), with no known negative consequences for the institutions.

I await your response.

Yours sincerely,

Stuart Lawson

Sesay, Saidu, City, University of London

Dear Stuart,

Please see below reference to Elsevier.

2015- £202,441 and 2016- £ 210,539.

Yours Sincerely,

Saidu Sesay
Information Compliance Officer, IT
City, University of London
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
T: +44 (0)20 7040 8224
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Dear Saidu,

Great, thanks very much for this.

Yours sincerely,

Stuart Lawson