This is inaccurate. Universities have contracts with publishers to get their faculty access to the journals. I've never encountered a mandate to publish in cer

This is inaccurate. Universities have contracts with publishers to get their faculty access to the journals. I've never encountered a mandate to publish in certain journals because the university has contracts with them. On occasion there are incentives like breaks on open access fees essentially because the university pre-paid, and there are field specific norms on where to publish.