University of Helsinki joins OpenAPC

We welcome the University of Helsinki as new contributing institution!

The Helsinki University Library operates an Open Access publication fund which provides support for Open Access publishing.

Contact Person is Marjo Kuusela.

Cost data

The initial data set covers publication fees for 645 articles published in 2021, total expenditure amounts to 1,213,000€ and the average fee is 1,881€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 166 256007 1542
Frontiers Media SA 154 283648 1842
Springer Nature 63 153238 2432
Elsevier BV 53 100152 1890
Copernicus GmbH 37 64871 1753
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 22 38576 1753
Informa UK Limited 17 38598 2270
BMJ 11 27103 2464
Oxford University Press (OUP) 11 35006 3182
Wiley-Blackwell 11 29564 2688
The Company of Biologists 6 19842 3307
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 5 10859 2172
SAGE Publications 5 3860 772
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 4 13034 3258
American Society for Microbiology 4 6341 1585
PeerJ 4 3893 973
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 3 13788 4596
American Astronomical Society 3 3389 1130
EDP Sciences 3 4170 1390
Intellect 3 4394 1465
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 3 2699 900
AIP Publishing 2 3975 1987
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2 4861 2430
American Society for Clinical Investigation 2 7102 3551
American Society for Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) 2 3915 1958
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2 3128 1564
BioScientifica 2 6233 3116
Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library 2 646 323
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2 4715 2358
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2 3142 1571
IOP Publishing 2 5016 2508
JMIR Publications Inc. 2 3981 1990
Magnolia Press 2 845 423
Mary Ann Liebert Inc 2 1387 694
Pensoft Publishers 2 1254 627
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2 6064 3032
Society for Neuroscience 2 4447 2224
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 2 1030 515
Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology Association of Thailand 1 436 436
American Dairy Science Association 1 1084 1084
American Diabetes Association 1 2227 2227
Anticancer Research USA Inc. 1 557 557
AOSIS 1 672 672
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 1 1091 1091
Bristol University Press 1 1500 1500
Edinburgh University Press 1 1174 1174
EMBO 1 5828 5828
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) 1 498 498
Forest Products Society 1 2545 2545
Geological Society of America 1 2672 2672
Ivyspring International Publisher 1 1905 1905
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1 1800 1800
Life Science Alliance, LLC 1 3213 3213
lnternational Electronic Journal of Elementary Education 1 300 300
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 742 742
The Royal Society 1 1020 1020
Universities Federation for Animal Welfare 1 2099 2099
University of Chicago Press 1 2736 2736
University of Illinois Press 1 1650 1650
Wageningen Academic Publishers 1 1364 1364
Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH 1 1116 1116

Overview

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

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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Veneto Institute of Oncology reports its 2021 APC expenditures

The Veneto Institute of Oncology (IOV IRCCS) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period.

The IOV Library collects data on institutional APC expenditures and kindly provides it to OpenAPC.

Contact Persons are Valentina Bozzato and Marianna Gnoato.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 58 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 141,911€ and the average fee is 2,447€.

The following table shows the payments the IOV Library has reported for 2021.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 19 37117 1954
Frontiers Media SA 17 43921 2584
Springer Nature 8 22750 2844
Elsevier BV 5 16231 3246
BMJ 2 4073 2037
Wiley-Blackwell 2 3318 1659
Future Medicine Ltd 1 5460 5460
Informa UK Limited 1 2104 2104
John Libbey Eurotext 1 1098 1098
Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 1 3740 3740
SAGE Publications 1 2098 2098

Overview

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

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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The National Library of Sweden provides APC data for Sweden using a new workflow

In May 2016 the National Library of Sweden started their own OpenAPC project to collect cost data from Swedish HEIs. So far articles added to openapc-se have been made available to OpenAPC in a biannual ingestion interval. The last exchange happened in February 2022.

From now on the National Library wants to establish a new workflow and has kindly made APC expenditures for 1 Swedish institution available to OpenAPC via pull request on GitHub.

Contact person for the National Library is Camilla Lindelöw.

Cost data

The dataset covers publication fees for 47 articles published in 2021. Total expenditure amounts to 71 008€ and the average fee is 1 511€.

The data originates from the University of Gävle (Have a look at the treemaps site for institutional details):

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 24 33601 1400
Frontiers Media SA 5 7101 1420
Informa UK Limited 4 7384 1846
Wiley-Blackwell 3 5860 1953
Cogitatio 2 1821 910
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2 3749 1875
Aerospace Medical Association 1 1334 1334
Austin Publishing Group 1 1484 1484
Emerald 1 2710 2710
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1490 1490
SAGE Publications 1 1052 1052
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health 1 2326 2326
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 1098 1098

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Gävle now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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