ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences reports 2023 data

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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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CSIC joins OpenAPC

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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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University of Liège reports its 2022 APC and BPC expenditures

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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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