The National Library of Sweden provides APC data for 3 institutions

The National Library of Sweden collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in Sweden.

APC expenditures for 3 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC.

Contact person for the National Library is Camilla Lindelöw.

Cost data

The new data set provided by the National Library covers publication fees for 309 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 564 014€ and the average fee is 1 825€. The contribution also contained BPC data for one OA monograph which is not listed here.

The data originates from the following institutions:

  • Halmstad University
  • Karlstad University
  • Uppsala University

Overview

A detailed analysis of the contributed data sets provides the following overview:

Breakdown by publisher

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 132 196961 1492
Oxford University Press (OUP) 20 50305 2515
Informa UK Limited 11 23225 2111
Springer Nature 10 40573 4057
Copernicus GmbH 9 14058 1562
IEEE 9 12183 1354
JMIR Publications Inc. 9 15404 1712
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 9 21691 2410
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 9 12979 1442
Frontiers Media SA 7 13100 1871
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 5 18211 3642
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 5 3652 730
American Society for Microbiology 4 7457 1864
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 4 8775 2194
AAAS 3 9048 3016
American Society of Hematology 3 7735 2578
BMJ 3 5359 1786
Elsevier BV 3 5809 1936
Wiley-Blackwell 3 7194 2398
American Medical Association (AMA) 2 5020 2510
American Physical Society (APS) 2 6198 3099
European Respiratory Society (ERS) 2 934 467
Future Medicine Ltd 2 5577 2789
IOP Publishing 2 4353 2176
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2 2680 1340
Pensoft Publishers 2 1274 637
Society of Nuclear Medicine 2 2915 1458
The Endocrine Society 2 3691 1846
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2 4379 2190
Academic Journals 1 474 474
AIP Publishing 1 2873 2873
AME Publishing Company 1 1296 1296
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 1 339 339
American Society for Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) 1 1711 1711
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 1 3442 3442
American Vacuum Society 1 1886 1886
Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. 1 2288 2288
BioScientifica 1 1692 1692
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 2350 2350
Cappelen Damm AS - Cappelen Damm Akademisk 1 1200 1200
Cogitatio 1 201 201
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 1 4165 4165
F1000 Research, Ltd. 1 1110 1110
IMR Press 1 1779 1779
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 1 2116 2116
International Global Health Society 1 1477 1477
Ivyspring International Publisher 1 1606 1606
Knowledge Enterprise Journals 1 539 539
Life Science Alliance, LLC 1 2019 2019
Mary Ann Liebert Inc 1 2733 2733
Medical Journals Sweden AB 1 904 904
Microbiology Society 1 1703 1703
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Library 1 200 200
Research Outreach 1 2118 2118
SAGE Publications 1 556 556
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 1 882 882
Society for Neuroscience 1 1935 1935
The Company of Biologists 1 3444 3444
The Journal of Rheumatology 1 4077 4077
The Royal Society 1 157 157

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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SWP joins OpenAPC

We welcome the SWP (German Institute for International and Security Affairs) as new contributing institution!

The SWP is a German think-tank for foreign and security policy issues.

Contact person for the SWP data is Agnieszka Wenninger.

Cost Data

The data covers publication fees for 1 article paid for in 2019. Total expenditure amounts to 1,656€.

The following table shows the payments the SWP has made to publishers in 2019.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
BMJ 1 1656 1656

Wellcome Trust/COAF data (2018/2019) included

In 2014 the Wellcome Trust started to make APC expenditures of the COAF publicly available. The most recent data set has now been processed and added to OpenAPC’s data collection.

About the data set

The data set contributed by the Wellcome Trust contains information on publication fees covering a time span from October 2018 to September 2019 (OpenAPC treats this data as having all been processed in the 2019 period).

Cost Data

The new data set covers publication fees for 1,970 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 5,348,880€ and the average fee is 2,715€.

The following table provides an overview:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Elsevier BV 438 1449809 3310
Springer Nature 343 874702 2550
Wiley-Blackwell 186 490316 2636
Oxford University Press (OUP) 142 359664 2533
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 115 240422 2091
BMJ 105 252923 2409
Frontiers Media SA 95 230409 2425
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 59 243873 4133
Informa UK Limited 39 70472 1807
MDPI AG 38 52821 1390
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 36 96479 2680
SAGE Publications 30 31043 1035
American Society for Microbiology 29 81106 2797
American Chemical Society (ACS) 20 73402 3670
The Company of Biologists 20 62154 3108
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 18 48446 2691
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 15 25395 1693
American Medical Association (AMA) 13 49728 3825
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 13 32423 2494
Society for Neuroscience 12 42580 3548
American Society for Clinical Investigation 11 46551 4232
Portland Press Ltd. 11 22081 2007
The Royal Society 11 20427 1857
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 10 30517 3052
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 9 13134 1459
IOP Publishing 9 19866 2207
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 8 17906 2238
EMBO 8 28642 3580
European Respiratory Society (ERS) 6 23082 3847
American Psychological Association (APA) 5 21963 4393
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 5 22462 4492
British Institute of Radiology 5 14424 2885
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 5 12947 2589
Impact Journals, LLC 5 18057 3611
Rockefeller University Press 5 19079 3816
S. Karger AG 5 16586 3317
The American Association of Immunologists 5 11031 2206
American Society of Hematology 4 8247 2062
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 4 7633 1908
International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 4 6696 1674
JMIR Publications Inc. 4 10528 2632
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 3 9386 3129
American Society for Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) 3 7465 2488
American Thoracic Society 3 3230 1077
F1000 Research, Ltd. 3 3232 1077
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 3 5998 1999
Mary Ann Liebert Inc 3 9692 3231
MyJove Corporation 3 10738 3579
Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 3 8636 2879
Royal College of General Practitioners 3 6788 2263
American Physiological Society 2 4270 2135
BioScientifica 2 4750 2375
Future Science, LTD 2 4841 2421
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2 6221 3111
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 2 5493 2746
IOS Press 2 5112 2556
Life Science Alliance, LLC 2 4658 2329
Microbiology Society 2 2950 1475
Optical Society of America (OSA) 2 5657 2828
The Endocrine Society 2 6855 3427
Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc. 1 3225 3225
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) 1 743 743
American Physical Society (APS) 1 2385 2385
American Speech Language Hearing Association 1 2150 2150
British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery 1 4405 4405
Cell Physiol Biochem Press GmbH and Co KG 1 1822 1822
Edinburgh University Press 1 1358 1358
Emerald 1 2715 2715
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) 1 2033 2033
International Global Health Society 1 516 516
Ivyspring International Publisher 1 2100 2100
Jiménez-Godoy, S.A. 1 1167 1167
Medip Academy 1 79 79
Medknow 1 272 272
PeerJ 1 1295 1295
Philosophy Documentation Center 1 2263 2263
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng 1 910 910
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 3442 3442

Overview

With the recent contributions included, the overall Wellcome Trust/COAF data which has been added to OpenAPC up to this point 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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