ETH Zurich reports its 2021 APC expenditures

The ETH Zurich has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period.

The ETH Library provides funding for Open Access publishing and kindly provides data on funded articles to OpenAPC.

Contact Person is Dr. Rainer Rees-Mertins.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 486 articles, total expenditure amounts to 1,008,551€ and the average fee is 2,075€.

The following table provides an overview:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 121 263602 2179
MDPI AG 112 174991 1562
Copernicus GmbH 75 128953 1719
Springer Nature 59 105749 1792
American Chemical Society (ACS) 38 132766 3494
Oxford University Press (OUP) 12 35422 2952
AIP Publishing 8 25506 3188
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 8 13432 1679
American Physical Society (APS) 7 15804 2258
Wiley-Blackwell 7 26638 3805
Mary Ann Liebert Inc 5 14575 2915
Optical Society of America (OSA) 4 7214 1804
American Society for Microbiology 3 5475 1825
BMJ 3 6376 2125
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 3 5648 1883
ASME International 2 5466 2733
Emerald 2 6204 3102
The Royal Society 2 3097 1549
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 1 1822 1822
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 1 1184 1184
Canadian Science Publishing 1 2733 2733
Elsevier BV 1 3209 3209
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 2186 2186
Inderscience Publishers 1 2733 2733
Informa UK Limited 1 4572 4572
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 1 2733 2733
IOP Publishing 1 1345 1345
MIT Press - Journals 1 1457 1457
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 2405 2405
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 581 581
Society of Rheology 1 2277 2277
University of California Press 1 1321 1321
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 1077 1077

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the ETH Zurich 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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University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt joins OpenAPC

We welcome the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (FHWS) as new contributing institution to OpenAPC!

The FHWS Library manages services related to Open Access and has provided a data set on articles published under the DEAL agreements with Wiley and Springer Nature to OpenAPC.

Contact Person is Lukas Burkhardt.

Cost data

The initial data set provided by the FHWS consists of 7 hybrid articles published under the DEAL agreements in 2020. The following table provides an overview, please note that the euro amounts do not represent real APCs, but calculated APC cost equivalents.

Cost data

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik 3 7510 2503
Behavior and Social Issues 1 2503 2503
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis 1 1883 1883
Journal of Clinical Nursing 1 1883 1883
Neural Computing and Applications 1 2503 2503

IFW reports its 2018 and 2019 APC expenditures

The Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW) has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2018 and 2019 period.

Contact Person for the contributed IFW data is Jana Sonnenstuhl.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 22 articles, total expenditure amounts to 56,000€ and the average fee is 2,545€.

The following table provides an overview of the new data:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 5 15530 3106
American Physical Society (APS) 3 4263 1421
Elsevier BV 3 8351 2784
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 3 5853 1951
Wiley-Blackwell 3 9567 3189
AAAS 2 8201 4101
AIP Publishing 1 1979 1979
Future Science, LTD 1 1152 1152
MDPI AG 1 1103 1103

Overview

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