From: David Groenewegen <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 13:53:40 +1000

According to the JISC numbers at
http://figshare.com/articles/APC_data_2014/1311672 (which only
represents 22 universities) around 375,000 pounds in 2014, which puts
PLOS fourth on the publisher list. For comparison, Elsevier and Wiley
managed 1.7million each.

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David Groenewegen
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Monash University Library
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Monash University
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On 17/07/2015 12:46 PM, LIBLICENSE wrote:
>
> From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 01:16:19 +0000
>
>> More and more UK
>> research is now freely available to the world¹s readers - great.  But
>> a significant proportion of the cash is going to large commercial
>> publishers to pay inflated APCs for hybrid journals.  And the majority
>> of that proportion is going to publishers - most notably Elsevier- who
>> refuse to engage meaningfully with the UK community on double-dipping.
>> This is essentially free cash to those publishers - over a £1million a
>> year to Elsevier, for example.
>
>
> Just curious ‹ does anyone know how much of the cash in question is going
> to PLOS? (I genuinely don¹t know and have no particular expectation as to
> what the answer might be.)
>
>
> Rick Anderson
> Assoc. Dean for Collections & Scholarly Communication
> Marriott Library, University of Utah
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