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Journal subscription expenditure of UK higher education institutions

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Date
06/07/2015
Author
Lawson, Stuart
Meghreblian, Ben
Keywords
Journals
Subscription
Higher education institution
ZA4050 Electronic information resources
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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 153 HEIs’ expenditure with ten 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.
Citation
Lawson , S & Meghreblian , B 2015 , ' Journal subscription expenditure of UK higher education institutions ' , F1000Research , vol. 3 , 274 . https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.5706.3
Publication
F1000Research
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.5706.3
ISSN
2046-1402
Type
Journal article
Rights
Copyright: © 2015 Lawson S and Meghreblian B. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/17752

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