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, with 1 of them reporting for the first time.

Contact person for the National Library is Camilla Lindelöw.

Cost data

The new data set provided by the National Library covers publication fees for 82 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 139 356€ and the average fee is 1 699€.

The data originates from the following institutions:

  • BTH Blekinge Institute of Technology (new)
  • University of Gothenburg
  • University West

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 31 46811 1510
IEEE 10 17949 1795
Springer Nature 5 11986 2397
Elsevier BV 3 7297 2432
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 3 10126 3375
AAAS 2 6037 3018
Acta Dermato-Venereologica 2 3143 1571
American Chemical Society (ACS) 2 2346 1173
JMIR Publications Inc. 2 3316 1658
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 2859 1429
Wiley-Blackwell 2 4389 2194
American Medical Association (AMA) 1 2473 2473
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1 2018 2018
BMJ 1 2132 2132
Cappelen Damm AS - Cappelen Damm Akademisk 1 1154 1154
Central Library of the Slovak Academy of Sciences 1 30 30
Cogitatio 1 903 903
Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library 1 354 354
Frontiers Media SA 1 1809 1809
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 773 773
IMR Press 1 789 789
IOP Publishing 1 2382 2382
Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) 1 841 841
Laser Institute of America 1 1796 1796
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1627 1627
Pensoft Publishers 1 450 450
Portland Press Ltd. 1 1405 1405
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 1 1308 1308
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 1 852 852

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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University of Rostock reports its 2020 + 2021 APC expenditures

The University of Rostock has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 and 2021 period.

Rostock University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.

Contact Person is Steffen Malo.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 335 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 550 524€ and the average fee is 1 643€.

The following table shows the payments Rostock University Library has made to publishers in 2020 and 2021.

Publishers

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 243 345611 1422
Frontiers Media SA 112 212590 1898
Springer Nature 72 128622 1786
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 25 39855 1594
Wiley-Blackwell 16 25585 1599
Elsevier BV 14 16115 1151
Copernicus GmbH 9 11871 1319
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 7 9523 1360
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 7 1516 217
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 6 5774 962
Optical Society of America (OSA) 4 6315 1579
RonPub 4 749 187
Informa UK Limited 3 3154 1051
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 3 5035 1678
Oxford University Press (OUP) 3 3948 1316
AME Publishing Company 2 2828 1414
Bioflux 2 371 186
Eurasian Society of Educational Research 2 729 364
IOP Publishing 2 1788 894
Ivyspring International Publisher 2 3527 1764
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 2 1500 750
The Korean Society of Phycology 2 789 395
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2 1071 536
Aging and Disease 1 1940 1940
Akademiai Kiado Zrt. 1 549 549
American Physical Society (APS) 1 1244 1244
BMJ 1 1875 1875
Brill 1 1583 1583
British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery 1 1299 1299
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 1994 1994
Cell Physiol Biochem Press GmbH and Co KG 1 1785 1785
Cogitatio 1 1044 1044
David Publishing Company 1 299 299
e-Century Publishing Corporation 1 1770 1770
HARD Publishing Company 1 982 982
PeerJ 1 1181 1181
Portland Press Ltd. 1 1519 1519
Press of International Journal of Ophthalmology (IJO Press) 1 684 684
S. Karger AG 1 624 624
SAGE Publications 1 2015 2015
Sciaccess Publishers LLC 1 1216 1216
Scitechnol Biosoft Pvt. Ltd. 1 1332 1332
The Company of Biologists 1 1428 1428
The Korean Society of Applied Pharmacology 1 620 620

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Rostock 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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Technical University of Ostrava reports its 2021 APC expenditures

The VSB - Technical University of Ostrava has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period.

The VSB Central Library collects data on institutional APCs expenditures and kindly provides that data to OpenAPC.

Contact Person is Pavla Rygelová.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 94 articles, total expenditure amounts to 143,594€ and the average fee is 1,528€.

The following table provides an overview:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 134 205750 1535
MM Publishing, s.r.o. 27 12227 453
Elsevier BV 18 39683 2205
Springer Nature 10 19612 1961
Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in Usti nad Labem 9 1383 154
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 9 3899 433
Optical Society of America (OSA) 7 13946 1992
Wydawnictwo Naukowe Gabriel Borowski (WNGB) 7 1634 233
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 4 8134 2033
ASTES Journal 3 1399 466
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 3 6668 2223
TU Kosice 3 605 202
Wiley-Blackwell 3 9753 3251
Frontiers Media SA 2 4445 2223
Informa UK Limited 2 4486 2243
Mechanical Engineering Faculty in Slavonski Brod 2 975 488
Politechnika Koszalinska 2 687 344
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt 2 4249 2124
Asociatia Geograhia Technica 1 174 174
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 1 1302 1302
Copernicus GmbH 1 1677 1677
Desalination Publications 1 145 145
EDP Sciences 1 101 101
Estonian Academy Publishers 1 605 605
F1000 Research, Ltd. 1 795 795
Future Science, LTD 1 1755 1755
Inderscience Publishers 1 1108 1108
Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics, AS CR 1 391 391
IOP Publishing 1 230 230
Ital Publication 1 381 381
KIPS-CSWRG 1 3121 3121
Longdom Group 1 1838 1838
Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine 1 97 97
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1716 1716
Polish Academy of Sciences 1 302 302
Polskie Naukowo-Techniczne Towarzystwo Eksploatacyjne 1 496 496
Polskie Towarzystwo Przeróbki Kopalin 1 468 468
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1386 1386
SAGE Publications 1 888 888
Trans Tech Publications, Ltd. 1 605 605
Versita, Warsaw 1 302 302
Wydawnictwo SIGMA-NOT, sp. z.o.o. 1 363 363

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Ostrava 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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