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. -- David Groenewegen Director, Research Monash University Library Information Services Building Monash University VIC 3800 AUSTRALIA 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 > [log in to unmask]