Qatar National Library reports additional 2021 APC expenditures

The Qatar National Library (مكتبة قطر الوطنية) has updated its cost data, the recent contribution provides more APC expenditures for the 2021 period.

Contact Person for the QNL is Sarah Abusaada.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 358 articles, total expenditure amounts to 698,580€ and the average fee is 1,951€.

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

Publishers

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Elsevier BV 152 296626 1951
Wiley-Blackwell 67 133636 1995
Informa UK Limited 42 96681 2302
Springer Nature 30 67620 2254
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 26 40263 1549
Frontiers Media SA 13 23134 1780
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 7 13670 1953
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 5 7437 1487
Medknow 3 2492 831
S. Karger AG 3 2945 982
BMJ 2 3282 1641
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 1 1203 1203
Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) 1 613 613
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1661 1661
IMR Press 1 743 743
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 1 2250 2250
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1890 1890
SAGE Publications 1 1435 1435
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 1000 1000

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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Couperin.org provides additional APC data for 19 institutions

The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.

APC expenditures for 19 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, with 10 of them reporting for the first time.

Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.

Cost data

The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 810 articles published mostly between 2018 and 2020. Total expenditure amounts to 1,413,330€ and the average fee is 1,745€.

The data originates from the following institutions:

  • AgroParisTech (new)
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse
  • Université de Bordeaux
  • Université de Bourgogne
  • ENGEES (new)
  • ENSTA Bretagne (new)
  • ESPCI Paris
  • Université de Franche-Comté
  • Université de Haute-Alsace (new)
  • IFREMER (new)
  • IFSTTAR
  • Université du Havre (new)
  • Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (new)
  • Université Paris Nanterre (new)
  • Université de Perpignan - Via Domitia (new)
  • Sciences Po Paris (new)
  • Sorbonne Université
  • Université de Toulon

Overview

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

Breakdown by publisher

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 173 359994 2081
MDPI AG 141 186650 1324
Frontiers Media SA 108 218216 2021
Elsevier BV 95 153990 1621
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 47 65378 1391
Optical Society of America (OSA) 32 56296 1759
Oxford University Press (OUP) 19 40905 2153
Wiley-Blackwell 19 35601 1874
Informa UK Limited 14 36591 2614
Copernicus GmbH 13 23195 1784
IEEE 12 14621 1218
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 12 14158 1180
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 7 20212 2887
AAAS 6 19812 3302
American Chemical Society (ACS) 6 7763 1294
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 6 14815 2469
American Physical Society (APS) 6 16889 2815
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 5 7158 1432
ASTES Journal 4 697 174
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 4 8743 2186
Inter-Research Science Center 4 7200 1800
PeerJ 4 3718 930
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 4 8323 2081
American Society for Microbiology 3 2091 697
BMJ 3 6080 2027
David Publishing Company 3 1957 652
Impact Journals, LLC 3 9600 3200
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 3 1950 650
SAGE Publications 3 4636 1545
American Society for Clinical Investigation 2 7328 3664
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2 2852 1426
Avoxa Mediengruppe Deutscher Apotheker GmbH 2 596 298
IOP Publishing 2 4032 2016
JMIR Publications Inc. 2 2544 1272
Juniper Publishers 2 1611 806
OMICS Publishing Group 2 1247 623
The Company of Biologists 2 5086 2543
The Royal Society 2 3120 1560
University of California Press 2 2119 1059
Academic Conferences International Ltd 1 284 284
AIP Publishing 1 1958 1958
Akademiai Kiado Zrt. 1 495 495
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 1 2175 2175
American Astronomical Society 1 245 245
American Physiological Society 1 881 881
Antiquity Publications 1 852 852
CAIRN 1 250 250
Canadian Science Publishing 1 2445 2445
Center for Promoting Ideas 1 190 190
Crimson Publishers 1 394 394
DGHT 1 385 385
EDP Sciences 1 600 600
EMBO 1 3960 3960
Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences 1 350 350
Fortune Journals 1 908 908
Genetics Society of America 1 1487 1487
Geological Society of America 1 2180 2180
Herald Scholarly Open Access 1 875 875
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 1 742 742
Lupine Publishers LLC 1 912 912
Mary Ann Liebert Inc 1 2714 2714
Portland Press Ltd. 1 2590 2590
RonPub 1 98 98
Science Impact, Ltd. 1 2142 2142
Science Repository OU 1 427 427
Shared Science Publishers OG 1 1012 1012
Society for Neuroscience 1 1687 1687
Spandidos Publications 1 910 910
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 950 950
University of Bern 1 460 460

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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University of Magdeburg joins OpenAPC

We welcome the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (OvGU) as new contributor to OpenAPC!

The OvGU Library operates an Open Access publishing fund which received supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme until 2020.

Contact Person is Stefanie Kutz.

Cost data

The initial data set covers publication fees for 335 articles published in 2020. Total expenditure amounts to 673,877€ and the average fee is 2,012€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Elsevier BV 108 264458 2449
MDPI AG 96 162788 1696
Springer Nature 42 80125 1908
Frontiers Media SA 25 53728 2149
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 20 40000 2000
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 10 13205 1321
Wiley-Blackwell 8 17842 2230
IEEE 5 7244 1449
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 3 6209 2070
Informa UK Limited 3 5155 1718
IOP Publishing 3 4437 1479
ARVO 2 3063 1532
AAAS 1 3312 3312
AIP Publishing 1 1118 1118
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1035 1035
American Mathematical Society (AMS) 1 621 621
BMJ 1 1724 1724
Medknow 1 1242 1242
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 2318 2318
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 2301 2301
Royan Institute 1 295 295
SAGE Publications 1 1656 1656

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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