15 Jul 2024
The University of Zurich has updated its APC and BPC expenditures, the recent contribution provides data for the 2022 and 2023 period.
The University Library Zurich collects data on institutional APC and BPC expenditures and kindly provides them to OpenAPC.
Contact via the Open Science Services.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 53 articles published in 2022 and 2023. Total expenditure amounts to 89,684€ and the average fee is 1,692€. The following table provides an overview of the new APC 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 |
| Frontiers Media SA |
22 |
34270 |
1558 |
| MDPI AG |
8 |
14084 |
1761 |
| Springer Nature |
8 |
13911 |
1739 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. |
2 |
4993 |
2496 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
2 |
3354 |
1677 |
| Wiley-Blackwell |
2 |
3550 |
1775 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
2446 |
2446 |
| Informa UK Limited |
1 |
1780 |
1780 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) |
1 |
825 |
825 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
1 |
2255 |
2255 |
| BMJ |
1 |
2448 |
2448 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd |
1 |
2833 |
2833 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. |
1 |
1273 |
1273 |
| Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University |
1 |
200 |
200 |
| PeerJ |
1 |
1461 |
1461 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Zurich now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
26 Jun 2024
The Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2022 period as well as articles published under transformative agreements in 2022.
The SNS Open Access Publishing Fund supports and partially funds OA publishing at the institution.
Contact Person is Donatella Tamagno.
Cost Data
The new data covers publication fees for 23 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 57,076€ and the average fee is 2,482€. Please note that articles published under transformative agreements are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements data set.
The following table provides an overview of the new data:
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| Springer Nature |
6 |
15394 |
2566 |
| MDPI AG |
4 |
8859 |
2215 |
| Frontiers Media SA |
3 |
7480 |
2493 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) |
2 |
6666 |
3333 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
2 |
4443 |
2222 |
| American Astronomical Society |
1 |
476 |
476 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) |
1 |
1382 |
1382 |
| Elsevier BV |
1 |
5490 |
5490 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
1104 |
1104 |
| Informa UK Limited |
1 |
2550 |
2550 |
| Wiley-Blackwell |
1 |
3233 |
3233 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
24 Jun 2024
The Technische Universität Berlin has provided BPC expenditures for the 2023 period and some remaining monographs für 2022.
The TU Berlin University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which also supports publishing of OA monographs.
Contact person is Elena Di Rosa.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 9 books. Total expenditure amounts to 46 081€ and the average fee is 5 120€.
The following table provides an overview of the reported BPC payments.
| |
Books |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| LIT Verlag |
3 |
12000 |
4000 |
| Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden |
2 |
11900 |
5950 |
| Beltz |
1 |
4450 |
4450 |
| Peter Lang |
1 |
5355 |
5355 |
| transcript Verlag |
1 |
7140 |
7140 |
| wbv Media |
1 |
5236 |
5236 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall BPC data for the TU Berlin now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
