16 May 2022
The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 5 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 103 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 150,242€ and the average fee is 1,459€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- IMT Atlantique Bretagne Pays de la Loire
- Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA)
- Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne
- Université de La Rochelle
- Université de technologie de Troyes
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 |
56 |
79106 |
1413 |
Springer Nature |
8 |
14205 |
1776 |
IEEE |
5 |
6817 |
1363 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
5 |
8649 |
1730 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
5 |
7473 |
1495 |
Elsevier BV |
4 |
5776 |
1444 |
Frontiers Media SA |
4 |
5943 |
1486 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
2 |
3458 |
1729 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
1 |
1040 |
1040 |
American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
1 |
2200 |
2200 |
American Society for Microbiology |
1 |
3058 |
3058 |
Copernicus GmbH |
1 |
2233 |
2233 |
EDP Sciences |
1 |
1200 |
1200 |
Hilaris |
1 |
852 |
852 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
41 |
41 |
Informa UK Limited |
1 |
1125 |
1125 |
OMICS Publishing Group |
1 |
1424 |
1424 |
PeerJ |
1 |
923 |
923 |
Science Publishing Group |
1 |
816 |
816 |
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng |
1 |
1023 |
1023 |
The Royal Society |
1 |
1080 |
1080 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
1 |
1800 |
1800 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

16 May 2022
The National Library of Sweden collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in Sweden.
APC expenditures for 2 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 200 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 405 184€ and the average fee is 2 026€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Karolinska Institutet
- University of Skövde
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 |
59 |
94511 |
1602 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
19 |
37462 |
1972 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
15 |
39464 |
2631 |
Frontiers Media SA |
12 |
27043 |
2254 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
12 |
23800 |
1983 |
Springer Nature |
9 |
31464 |
3496 |
Impact Journals, LLC |
5 |
16401 |
3280 |
Informa UK Limited |
5 |
10534 |
2107 |
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) |
4 |
5136 |
1284 |
American Society for Microbiology |
4 |
6216 |
1554 |
Elsevier BV |
4 |
9606 |
2402 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
4 |
9266 |
2316 |
American Society for Clinical Investigation |
3 |
10228 |
3409 |
IEEE |
3 |
4887 |
1629 |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |
3 |
8046 |
2682 |
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health |
3 |
3475 |
1158 |
Acta Dermato-Venereologica |
2 |
3189 |
1594 |
American Medical Association (AMA) |
2 |
6922 |
3461 |
BMJ |
2 |
5063 |
2531 |
Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library |
2 |
701 |
350 |
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd |
2 |
4676 |
2338 |
European Respiratory Society (ERS) |
2 |
2548 |
1274 |
Medical Journals Sweden AB |
2 |
1499 |
749 |
Society for Neuroscience |
2 |
7061 |
3531 |
Spandidos Publications |
2 |
1969 |
985 |
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene |
1 |
2103 |
2103 |
American Speech Language Hearing Association |
1 |
1709 |
1709 |
Brill |
1 |
382 |
382 |
Bristol University Press |
1 |
1771 |
1771 |
British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery |
1 |
1709 |
1709 |
Cogitatio |
1 |
1153 |
1153 |
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) |
1 |
404 |
404 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
770 |
770 |
IGI Global |
1 |
430 |
430 |
International Global Health Society |
1 |
2311 |
2311 |
International Journal of Medical Education |
1 |
1032 |
1032 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
1 |
1652 |
1652 |
Life Science Alliance, LLC |
1 |
2457 |
2457 |
Mary Ann Liebert Inc |
1 |
2754 |
2754 |
MyJove Corporation |
1 |
2155 |
2155 |
Rockefeller University Press |
1 |
4770 |
4770 |
S. Karger AG |
1 |
2895 |
2895 |
The Journal of Rheumatology |
1 |
3561 |
3561 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

13 May 2022
The Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period.
The University Library of Erlangen-Nürnberg is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which has been receiving support under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme until 2018.
Contact person is Markus Putnings.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 334 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 609 001€ and the average fee is 1 823€.
The following table shows the payments the FAU has made to publishers in 2021.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
128 |
221732 |
1732 |
Springer Nature |
98 |
205461 |
2097 |
Frontiers Media SA |
34 |
58084 |
1708 |
Elsevier BV |
10 |
15232 |
1523 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
9 |
16596 |
1844 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
8 |
13517 |
1690 |
SAGE Publications |
6 |
8959 |
1493 |
IEEE |
5 |
8574 |
1715 |
Informa UK Limited |
4 |
7045 |
1761 |
BMJ |
3 |
5210 |
1737 |
Copernicus GmbH |
3 |
3727 |
1242 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
2 |
2519 |
1260 |
American Physical Society (APS) |
2 |
4011 |
2005 |
Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
2 |
2169 |
1085 |
IOP Publishing |
2 |
2981 |
1490 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
2 |
1619 |
809 |
Acta Dermato-Venereologica |
1 |
1666 |
1666 |
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
1 |
2002 |
2002 |
American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
1 |
3272 |
3272 |
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) |
1 |
1498 |
1498 |
Biophysical Society |
1 |
1006 |
1006 |
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd |
1 |
1792 |
1792 |
EMBO |
1 |
4284 |
4284 |
Georg Thieme Verlag KG |
1 |
1012 |
1012 |
GeoScienceWorld |
1 |
2016 |
2016 |
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) |
1 |
2380 |
2380 |
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) |
1 |
2007 |
2007 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
1 |
2022 |
2022 |
Life Science Alliance, LLC |
1 |
1981 |
1981 |
Pensoft Publishers |
1 |
833 |
833 |
sub\urban e.V. |
1 |
1785 |
1785 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
1 |
2008 |
2008 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Erlangen-Nürnberg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
