Journal subscription expenditure of UK higher education institutions

Lawson, Stuart and Meghreblian, Ben Journal subscription expenditure of UK higher education institutions. F1000Research, 2014. [Journal article (Unpaginated)]

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English abstract

The academic libraries of higher education institutions (HEIs) pay significant amounts of money each year for access to academic journals. The amounts paid are often not transparent especially when it comes to knowing how much is paid to specific publishers. Therefore data on journal subscription expenditure were obtained for UK HEIs using a series of Freedom of Information requests. Data were obtained for 141 HEIs’ expenditure with seven publishers over a five-year period. The majority of institutions have provided figures but some are still outstanding. The data will be of interest to those who wish to understand the economics of scholarly communication and see the scale of payments flowing within the system. Further research could replicate the data collection in other jurisdictions.

Item type:	Journal article (Unpaginated)
Keywords:	scholarly communication, freedom of information
Subjects:	E. Publishing and legal issues. > EB. Printing, electronic publishing, broadcasting. E. Publishing and legal issues. > EE. Intellectual freedom.
Depositing user:	Stuart Lawson
Date deposited:	25 May 2015 14:37
Last modified:	25 May 2015 14:37
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/25079

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