Marcus, E. (2020, November 23). How College Students Are Helping Each Other Survive. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/style/college-mutual-aid-networks.html

Repository based open access is not free. Institutions and other organisations have invested significant resources into the development, maintenance, management and quality assurance of repositories and their content. This would not be necessary if academic journals publishing was more equitable, transparent and sustainable.

This is an untested statement and does not take into account the perspectives of those contributing to the publishers' revenue. The Rights Retention Strategy (RRS) relies on the author's accepted manuscript (AAM) and for an AAM to exist and to have the added value from peer-review a Version of Record (VoR) must exist. Libraries recognise this fundamental principle and continue to subscribe to individual journals of merit and support lucrative deals with publishers. From some (not all) librarians' and possibly funders' perspectives these statements could undermine any mutual respect.

Conway, E. (2020, October 15). Coronavirus: Test and Trace consultants paid equivalent of £1.5m salary. skynews. https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-test-and-trace-consultants-paid-equivalent-of-16315m-salary-12104028

Galloway, S. (n.d.). NYU professor Scott Galloway predicts hundreds of universities will shutter, possibly for good, if they reopen in the fall. Business Insider. Retrieved July 20, 2020, from https://www.businessinsider.com/scott-galloway-colleges-must-cut-costs-to-survive-covid-2020-7

Another good data point

Similar to US expenses.