What do we do with your article processing charge data? | Jisc scholarly communications

"Every year, Jisc asks UK HEIs to provide details of the individual article processing charges (APC) transactions they’ve made throughout the year using a standardised template. This ongoing project started in 2013 with 17 institutions participating. Since then, the project has expanded to include data on 36,000 APCs from 53 unique institutions, and it celebrates its fifth anniversary this year. Why do we ask for all that data – and what do we do with it?

1)  We use it in negotiations

Subscription managers and OA advocates have long lamented the opaqueness of big deals. Bundling together journals into a single deal makes it hard to understand what the cost of an individual journal is. On top of this, these deals are sometimes bound by confidentiality clauses, which prohibit institutions from sharing how much they have paid. This lack of transparency can stifle competition, as buyers can’t compare pricing...."