Finnish researchers are calling for improved transparency in academic journal pricing | Tiedonhinta.fi

"To facilitate greater transparency of academic publishing deals, we are hereby making a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to FinELib, in accordance with the Finnish Freedom of Information Act (“Julkisuuslaki”). In particular, we request the full contract texts and the total cost information per subscribing institution and per year, as specified in the contracts for all recent deals whose terms are starting from the beginning of 2018. These include, at least, the deals with Emerald (journal package) and IEEE (IEL database) and  with Wiley-Blackwell (the 2014 Full Collection), American Chemical Society (journal package), OVID (LWW journal package) and  Springer (SpringerCompact journal package)."