{"id":1086,"date":"2017-01-06T15:17:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T14:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/?p=64296\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:22:06","slug":"eur-betaalt-3-miljoen-euro-voor-wetenschappelijke-tijdschriften","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2017\/01\/06\/eur-betaalt-3-miljoen-euro-voor-wetenschappelijke-tijdschriften\/","title":{"rendered":"Erasmus University Rotterdam pays 3 million euros for academic journals"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We finally know the amounts paid by Dutch universities to academic publishers. After two Freedom of Information Act (Wob) requests, the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) has published the costs paid per university and per publisher. These amounts had so far remained confidential because of confidentiality clauses in the contracts with the publishers concerned.<\/p>\n

Universities pay almost 12 million euros to publisher Elsevier. In 2011, the sum was only 10 million euros, but the rate rose substantially within a period of two years. Other publishers receive less but it mounts up considerably in the end. Whereas it cost universities 36 million euros for access to academic journals in 2011, this increased to 43 million in 2015. On top of this, they pay in excess of 7 million euros for books on an annual basis.<\/p>\n

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) paid almost 3 million euros for academic journals in 2015. Utrecht University pays the most and Tilburg University pays the least. This has, of course, to do with the size of the university in question and the fields of study involved.<\/p>\n