February 9, 2020 Dataset Open Access

Journal subscription expenditure in the UK 2017-2019

Lawson, Stuart

This dataset contains payments made by UK higher education institutions for access to academic journals from ten publishers from 2017-2019. The data was obtained by sending Freedom of Information requests to institutions through the website https://whatdotheyknow.com. The total expenditure with these ten publishers from 2017-2019 was over £330 million.