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This is SUPER back of the napkin-y, so I hope I haven't done some crazy wrong math somewhere or used inaccurate stats, but I was trying to get a sense of contex
by dougmccune 10y ago
This is SUPER back of the napkin-y, so I hope I haven't done some crazy wrong math somewhere or used inaccurate stats, but I was trying to get a sense of context for how journals fit into overall university funding (which in Finland is almost all public funding).
All numbers are for 2011
Finland GDP: $273.7B USD (1)
public expenditure on education: 6.8% (2)
calculated expenditure on education: $18.6B USD
total cost for academic journals: $21.5M USD ($19M EUR) (3)
journal cost as % of yearly university funding: 0.12%
enrolled university students: 168,983 (4)
yearly cost per student for academic journals: $112 USD
(1) https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=ny_gdp_mktp_cd&idim=country:FIN&hl=en&dl=en https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...
(2) http://www.oecd.org/edu/Education-at-a-Glance-2014.pdf http://www.oecd.org/edu/Education-at-a-Glance-2014.pdf
(3) http://openscience.fi/publishercosts http://openscience.fi/publishercosts
(4) http://pxnet2.stat.fi/PXWeb/pxweb/en/StatFin/StatFin__kou__yop/010_yop_tau_101.px/table/tableViewLayout1/?rxid=052c6f7e-9bbd-4fc6-9e28-1d504813c4e2 http://pxnet2.stat.fi/PXWeb/pxweb/en/StatFin/StatFin__kou__y...