What are the Big 5 sector negotiations?
Throughout 2025, the UK higher education institutions, in collaboration with Jisc, are negotiating with the five largest academic publishers in the UK: Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor and Francis, Wiley, and Sage.
These negotiations are part of Jisc’s Next Generation Open Access (OA) strategy and aim to achieve fair, equitable, sustainable, and affordable agreements that meet the evolving needs of UK universities and the research community.
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Throughout 2025, the UK higher education institutions, in collaboration with Jisc, are negotiating with the five largest academic publishers in the UK: Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor and Francis, Wiley, and Sage.
These negotiations are part of Jisc’s Next Generation Open Access (OA) strategy and aim to achieve fair, equitable, sustainable, and affordable agreements that meet the evolving needs of UK universities and the research community.