Cost of scholarly publishing

The National Library monitors Swedish higher education institutions’ (HEIs) expenditure for scholarly literature and open access publishing in Sweden.

It is important to overview the total cost of publishing incurred during the transition towards an open access scholarly publishing system.

The National Library started drafting the total cost of scholarly publishing in 2017. This year’s presented data covers 2022. The total cost of publishing is presented in diagrams and downloadable data to make it accessible and of practical use to many.

In 2022 the total cost of publishing for Swedish HEIs was at least 738 million Swedish kronor (SEK).

2022

Expenditure items and the cost of publishing in million Swedish kronor for each of these.

Expenditure item

Million Swedish kronor (SEK)

Subscriptions, Bibsam¹

19

Local subscriptions

159

Transformative agreements, Bibsam

408

Fully open access agreements, Bibsam

73

Open Access publishing

35

Acquisitions

44

Total cost of publication

738

Overview of the total cost of publishing 2022 The Swedish library Consortium, Bibsam, negotiates licence agreements on behalf of Swedish organisations.

Total cost of publishing 2017–2022 in Swedish kronor

Cost of scholarly publishing – background and methods 

The National Library has published reports on the cost of scholarly publishing for five years, starting in 2017. Only the first report is available in English. It covers the methodology and terminology and also a background is presented.

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