02 May 2022
The University of Münster has provided both APC and BPC expenditures for 2021 period.
Münster University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which also supports publishing of OA monographs since 2017.
Contact person is Viola Voß.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 200 articles and 9 books. Total expenditure for articles amounts to 336,862€ and the average APC is 1,684€, while the total expenditures for books is 54,512€ with an average BPC of 6,057€.
The following tables and plots provide an overview of the payments Münster University Library has made to publishers in 2021.
Articles
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Springer Nature |
74 |
130743 |
1767 |
MDPI AG |
60 |
103609 |
1727 |
Frontiers Media SA |
13 |
20908 |
1608 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
13 |
21885 |
1683 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
8 |
13468 |
1684 |
Informa UK Limited |
6 |
10405 |
1734 |
IOP Publishing |
3 |
4016 |
1339 |
Joule Inc. |
2 |
3065 |
1533 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
2 |
2742 |
1371 |
SAGE Publications |
2 |
1468 |
734 |
University of California Press |
2 |
2000 |
1000 |
AME Publishing Company |
1 |
1462 |
1462 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
1 |
1243 |
1243 |
American Society for Microbiology |
1 |
1922 |
1922 |
ARVO |
1 |
1892 |
1892 |
BioScientifica |
1 |
1785 |
1785 |
British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery |
1 |
1755 |
1755 |
Elsevier BV |
1 |
828 |
828 |
Ivyspring International Publisher |
1 |
1926 |
1926 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
1 |
1860 |
1860 |
Oekom Publishers GmbH |
1 |
298 |
298 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
1 |
1942 |
1942 |
Schweizerbart |
1 |
1687 |
1687 |
Scientific Societies |
1 |
1437 |
1437 |
Society for Neuroscience |
1 |
1919 |
1919 |
Taiwan Association for Aerosol Research |
1 |
597 |
597 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

Books
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
transcript Verlag |
2 |
12225 |
6113 |
Aschendorff Verlag |
1 |
6058 |
6058 |
Beltz |
1 |
3960 |
3960 |
Brill |
1 |
7140 |
7140 |
Franz Steiner Verlag |
1 |
5458 |
5458 |
Peter Lang |
1 |
6720 |
6720 |
Routledge |
1 |
7000 |
7000 |
Waxmann Verlag |
1 |
5950 |
5950 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

29 Apr 2022
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 292 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 467 348€ and the average fee is 1 601€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Mälardalen University
- Dalarna University
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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 |
137 |
205051 |
1497 |
IEEE |
56 |
79541 |
1420 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
11 |
18604 |
1691 |
Informa UK Limited |
8 |
10198 |
1275 |
Elsevier BV |
7 |
18141 |
2592 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
6 |
12105 |
2017 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
5 |
7956 |
1591 |
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
4 |
5096 |
1274 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
4 |
8033 |
2008 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
4 |
3034 |
758 |
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) |
3 |
4515 |
1505 |
Springer Nature |
3 |
6932 |
2311 |
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co, KG |
3 |
1802 |
601 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
2 |
6523 |
3261 |
American Physiological Society |
2 |
5034 |
2517 |
ASME International |
2 |
5286 |
2643 |
Cogitatio |
2 |
1817 |
908 |
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd |
2 |
4222 |
2111 |
Emerald |
2 |
5407 |
2703 |
IOP Publishing |
2 |
2972 |
1486 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
2 |
5370 |
2685 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
2 |
4899 |
2449 |
Project Muse |
2 |
4236 |
2118 |
SAE International |
2 |
1282 |
641 |
SAGE Publications |
2 |
5163 |
2582 |
Aerospace Medical Association |
1 |
1244 |
1244 |
AIP Publishing |
1 |
1293 |
1293 |
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
1 |
3837 |
3837 |
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) |
1 |
1738 |
1738 |
American Mathematical Society (AMS) |
1 |
631 |
631 |
American Society for Microbiology |
1 |
2235 |
2235 |
American Vacuum Society |
1 |
1877 |
1877 |
Copernicus GmbH |
1 |
1537 |
1537 |
Georg Thieme Verlag KG |
1 |
2531 |
2531 |
lnternational Electronic Journal of Elementary Education |
1 |
302 |
302 |
Resilience Alliance, Inc. |
1 |
1012 |
1012 |
Rockefeller University Press |
1 |
4227 |
4227 |
Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM) |
1 |
2461 |
2461 |
Society for Neuroscience |
1 |
1862 |
1862 |
The Electrochemical Society |
1 |
1072 |
1072 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
1 |
4385 |
4385 |
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt |
1 |
1887 |
1887 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

29 Apr 2022
The University of Stuttgart has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period.
The University Library of Stuttgart (ULS) is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.
Please note that this contribution contains additional articles supported by other funds at University of Stuttgart.
Contact Person is Stefan Drößler.
Cost data
The new data covers publication fees for 129 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 208,010€ and the average fee is 1,612€.
The following table shows the payments the University Library of Stuttgart has made to publishers in 2021.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
76 |
126229 |
1661 |
Springer Nature |
13 |
21909 |
1685 |
Frontiers Media SA |
9 |
14367 |
1596 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
6 |
10745 |
1791 |
Elsevier BV |
3 |
5269 |
1756 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
3 |
5152 |
1717 |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
2 |
2139 |
1070 |
International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) |
2 |
1247 |
623 |
IOP Publishing |
2 |
2588 |
1294 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
2 |
3682 |
1841 |
AIP Publishing |
1 |
1911 |
1911 |
Cogitatio |
1 |
1071 |
1071 |
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd |
1 |
1852 |
1852 |
European Optical Society |
1 |
1609 |
1609 |
Georg Thieme Verlag KG |
1 |
986 |
986 |
Informa UK Limited |
1 |
1577 |
1577 |
Open Library of the Humanities |
1 |
638 |
638 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
1 |
979 |
979 |
The Company of Biologists |
1 |
1821 |
1821 |
The Royal Society |
1 |
1371 |
1371 |
University of Bern |
1 |
870 |
870 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Stuttgart now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
