Diagrams of costs of scholarly publishing 2025
The diagrams below contain information on the different expenditure items that make up the total cost of publishing incurred by Swedish higher education institutions (HEIs). The items are shown in diagrams per HEI.
The underlying data for each diagram can be downloaded separately.
Expenditure items
- Subscriptions, Bibsam
- Local subscriptions
- Transformative agreements, Bibsam
- Open access publishing, Bibsam
- Open access publishing, research funders
- Open access publishing, local
- Acquisitions
- Open infrastructures
- Administrative costs
Total cost of publishing per higher education institutions (HEI) in Sweden
Total cost of publishing per higher education institutions in Sweden, per expenditure item
Total costs – Data Access
Data from the National Library of Sweden’s assignment to report total costs for scholarly publishing at Swedish higher education institutions is freely available on the National library's GitHub account. A description of how to access the data is also provided there.