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