The Times Higher Education reports that the amount of money spent by UK universities on journal subscriptions has risen by up to 50% since 2011.

Freelance investigators Ben Meghreblian and Stuart Lawson requested the data under the Freedom of Information act, polling 100 UK universities to find out how much they spent on access to research.

They discovered that subscription costs have risen across all of major academic publishing houses; the average expenditure increased by 23.9% across all examined journals. 

Wiley, a major academic publisher, replied that it is difficult to distinguish "a true increase in [subscription] price from a university’s decision to spend more on a wider collection of journals."

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