Academic journal costs

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Dear Imperial College London,

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 2016-17 and 2017-18 for the publishers Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, Taylor & Francis, and Sage. (Although, those figures do not mention VAT.)

* 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

IMPFOI, Imperial College London

Dear Mr Lawson,

This is to acknowledge receipt of your request below, made under the Freedom of Information Act. The College will respond to your request by 18th October 2019.

Kind regards,

Freedom of Information Team
Imperial College London

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IMPFOI, Imperial College London

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Dear Mr Lawson

 

Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request.  Please find
below the College's 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, T&F, Sage, OUP, CUP, Nature, RSC, IoP]"

 

Please find attached the requested information.

 

All figures include VAT.

 

Please note the following:

·         Wiley titles include a small extra charge to allow the College's
NHS partners access to these titles.

·         Springer figures are shown in Euros

·         Institute of Physics 2017/18 figures include their Open Access
(OA) refund, which is a refund to the College's subscription based on the
number of Imperial OA articles published in OA Journals

 

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Imperial College London

 

 

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Dear Freedom of Information Team,

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

IMPFOI, Imperial College London

Dear Mr Lawson,

Thank you for that information.

Yours,

Freedom of Information Team
Imperial College London 

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