22 Sep 2023
ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides cost data for the 2023 period.
The ZHAW library operates an Open Access publication fund which provides support for Open Access publishing, and kindly provides data on funded articles and books to OpenAPC.
Contact Person is Cara Kirschner.
Cost Data
The new APC data set covers publication fees for 35 articles, total expenditure amounts to 62 644€ and the average fee is 1 790€. The contribution also contains BPC data for 1 OA book which is not shown here.
The following table provides an overview of the new APC data:
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
15 |
24528 |
1635 |
Frontiers Media SA |
9 |
18710 |
2079 |
Springer Nature |
7 |
14976 |
2139 |
Pensoft Publishers |
3 |
1975 |
658 |
Elsevier BV |
1 |
2456 |
2456 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the ZHAW now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

21 Sep 2023
We welcome the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) as a new contributing institution!
CSIC, Spain’s largest public research institution, has kindly decided to join the Open APC initiative and share its expenditures on Open Access publications.
Contact Person is Karina Barros Ferradás.
About the dataset
The initial data set contributed by CSIC contains information on publication fees paid from 2015 to 2023.
Cost data
The data set covers publication fees for 3,619 articles, total expenditure amounts to 10,065,910€ and the average fee is 2,781€.
The following tables and plots provide an overview of the reported APC expenditures. Data on transformative agreements can be found either in the OpenAPC TA Treemap (articles only) or the Combined Treemap (includes calculated cost data for agreements).
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Elsevier BV |
1655 |
4993260 |
3017 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
587 |
2038364 |
3473 |
Frontiers Media SA |
413 |
911029 |
2206 |
Springer Nature |
248 |
483170 |
1948 |
MDPI AG |
242 |
483826 |
1999 |
Informa UK Limited |
100 |
271965 |
2720 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
72 |
130715 |
1815 |
American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
52 |
149902 |
2883 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
51 |
158369 |
3105 |
Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
49 |
109937 |
2244 |
Copernicus GmbH |
39 |
56546 |
1450 |
AIP Publishing |
25 |
82224 |
3289 |
The Royal Society |
21 |
39480 |
1880 |
IOP Publishing |
12 |
26565 |
2214 |
Microbiology Society |
11 |
19926 |
1812 |
Pensoft Publishers |
11 |
7849 |
714 |
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) |
9 |
35990 |
3999 |
EMBO |
6 |
31800 |
5300 |
Portland Press Ltd. |
6 |
13005 |
2168 |
Brill |
5 |
9675 |
1935 |
Antiquity Publications |
3 |
6989 |
2330 |
American Vacuum Society |
1 |
3324 |
3324 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
1 |
2000 |
2000 |
Overview
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

14 Sep 2023
The University of Liège has provided both APC and BPC expenditures for the 2022 period.
Liège University Library collects data on institutional APC and BPC expenditures and kindly provides these data sets to OpenAPC.
Contact Person is Myriam Bastin.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 238 articles, total expenditure amounts to 462,029€ and the average fee is 1,941€.
The following table provides an overview of the new data. Please note that BPCs are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s BPC dataset.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
85 |
145911 |
1717 |
Frontiers Media SA |
36 |
94993 |
2639 |
Springer Nature |
23 |
52658 |
2289 |
Elsevier BV |
11 |
19758 |
1796 |
Informa UK Limited |
8 |
18907 |
2363 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
8 |
20622 |
2578 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
7 |
12827 |
1832 |
Copernicus GmbH |
4 |
3531 |
883 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
4 |
11014 |
2754 |
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. |
4 |
3068 |
767 |
American Society for Microbiology |
3 |
7738 |
2579 |
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. |
3 |
1806 |
602 |
American Dairy Science Association |
2 |
2409 |
1205 |
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd |
2 |
6234 |
3117 |
FapUNIFESP (SciELO) |
2 |
812 |
406 |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
2 |
3749 |
1874 |
Microbiology Society |
2 |
2812 |
1406 |
Academy of Science of South Africa |
1 |
426 |
426 |
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
1 |
4625 |
4625 |
American Astronomical Society |
1 |
2813 |
2813 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
1 |
1192 |
1192 |
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) |
1 |
300 |
300 |
American Physical Society (APS) |
1 |
2416 |
2416 |
American Society for Clinical Investigation |
1 |
4030 |
4030 |
American Thoracic Society |
1 |
1850 |
1850 |
BMJ |
1 |
2332 |
2332 |
Bonoi Science Advancement and Education LLC |
1 |
180 |
180 |
Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
1 |
2521 |
2521 |
Cogitatio |
1 |
900 |
900 |
EMBO |
1 |
5830 |
5830 |
European Respiratory Society (ERS) |
1 |
525 |
525 |
Gavin Publishers |
1 |
1549 |
1549 |
Institute of Hematology, Catholic University |
1 |
318 |
318 |
Institute of Research and Community Services Diponegoro University (LPPM UNDIP) |
1 |
294 |
294 |
International Mountain Society (IMS) and United Nations University |
1 |
1051 |
1051 |
IOP Publishing |
1 |
678 |
678 |
Meddocs |
1 |
1483 |
1483 |
MIT Press - Journals |
1 |
2302 |
2302 |
Open Access Text Pvt, Ltd. |
1 |
2583 |
2583 |
Optica Publishing Group |
1 |
1983 |
1983 |
PeerJ |
1 |
750 |
750 |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |
1 |
4981 |
4981 |
Remedy Publications |
1 |
888 |
888 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
1 |
2071 |
2071 |
Scientific Scholar |
1 |
170 |
170 |
ScopeMed |
1 |
367 |
367 |
University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw |
1 |
318 |
318 |
Veterinary World |
1 |
835 |
835 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
1 |
615 |
615 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Liège now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
