Diagrams of costs of scho­lar­ly publishing 2024

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 or per publisher.

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 HEI

Total cost of publishing per HEI, per expenditure item

Number of AWUs spent on managing APCs and electronic acquisitions