Academic journal costs

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Dear Royal Conservatoire of Scotland,

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 Conservatoire of Scotland

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Dear Mr. Lawson,

 

Thank-you for your request, received by the Royal Conservatoire of
Scotland. Please find our response as follows:

 

Please see below the figures for the FOI request:

 

Publisher 2016/2017 2017/2018 2018/2019
Wiley £98.52 £116.34 £118.67
Springer £0.00 £0.00 £0.00
Elsevier £0.00 £0.00 £0.00
Taylor &
Francis £7,965.00 £8,648.52 £8,759.95
Sage £0.00 £0.00 £0.00
Oxford
University
Press £856.18 £895.35 £942.49
Cambridge
University
Press £391.85 £406.69 £420.92
Nature
Publishing
Group £0.00 £0.00 £0.00
Royal
Society of
Chemistry £0.00 £0.00 £0.00
Institute
of Physics
Publishing £0.00 £0.00 £0.00
Please
note that
all
figures
are
inclusive
of VAT.

 

I do hope this information satisfies your request in full, but please do
let me know if we can offer any further assistance.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Caroline Cochrane
Head of Information Services 
+44 (0)141 270 8269 (direct)
[email address]
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Dear Caroline,

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