2019 Big Deals Survey Report- An Updated Mapping of Major Scholarly Publishing Contracts in Europe
By Rita Morais, Lennart Stoy and Lidia Borrell-Damián
▻https://eua.eu/resources/publications/829:2019-big-deals-survey-report.html
Conducted in 2017-2018, the report gathers data from 31 consortia covering an unprecedented 167 contracts with five major publishers: Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, Wiley and American Chemical Society. Readers will discover that *the total costs reported by the participating consortia exceed one billion euros for periodicals, databases, e-books and other resources – mainly to the benefit of large, commercial scholarly publishers*.