04 Oct 2021
We welcome Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) as new contributing institution!
The ZHdK provides a dedicated Open Access publishing budget to support Gold Open Access publishing.
Contact Person is Esther Zaugg.
Cost data
The initial data set covers publication fees for 1 article and 6 books published in 2020.
Overview: Journal Articles
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Springer Nature |
1 |
2337 |
2337 |
Overview: Books
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Transversal |
2 |
7885 |
3942 |
Birkhäuser |
1 |
7539 |
7539 |
De Gruyter |
1 |
5385 |
5385 |
Springer International Publishing |
1 |
7539 |
7539 |
transcript Verlag |
1 |
6000 |
6000 |
BPCs paid per publisher (in EURO)

BPC average costs per publisher (in EURO)

02 Sep 2021
The University of Duisburg-Essen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period.
Duisburg-Essen University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2014.
Contact persons are Frank Lützenkirchen and Katrin Falkenstein-Feldhoff.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 217 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 357 275€ and the average fee is 1 646€.
The following table shows the payments Duisburg-Essen University Library has made to publishers 2020.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
68 |
111625 |
1642 |
Frontiers Media SA |
53 |
100899 |
1904 |
Springer Nature |
26 |
44450 |
1710 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
11 |
19189 |
1744 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
9 |
15853 |
1761 |
Elsevier BV |
7 |
7067 |
1010 |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
6 |
10484 |
1747 |
SAGE Publications |
6 |
6920 |
1153 |
Informa UK Limited |
4 |
6860 |
1715 |
BMJ |
3 |
4265 |
1422 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
3 |
2719 |
906 |
AIP Publishing |
2 |
3238 |
1619 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
2 |
3981 |
1990 |
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften |
2 |
1471 |
736 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
2 |
2200 |
1100 |
Portland Press Ltd. |
2 |
2818 |
1409 |
AME Publishing Company |
1 |
1549 |
1549 |
American Astronomical Society |
1 |
800 |
800 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
1 |
1269 |
1269 |
American Society for Microbiology |
1 |
1169 |
1169 |
Cogitatio |
1 |
1071 |
1071 |
IOP Publishing |
1 |
1418 |
1418 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
1 |
1826 |
1826 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
1 |
1223 |
1223 |
Royal College of Psychiatrists |
1 |
1825 |
1825 |
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. |
1 |
687 |
687 |
sub\urban e.V. |
1 |
400 |
400 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Duisburg-Essen now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

18 Aug 2021
Lib4RI (Library for the Research Institutes within the ETH Domain) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period.
Lib4RI provides APC data for four institutes: Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology), Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology), PSI (Paul Scherrer Institute) and WSL (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research).
Contact persons are Jochen Bihn and Sarah Last.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 55 articles published at Empa, Eawag, WSL and PSI in 2021. Total expenditure amounts to 97,721€ and the average fee is 1,777€. The following tables and plots provide more details.
Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
20 |
29508 |
1475 |
Copernicus GmbH |
1 |
1410 |
1410 |
EDP Sciences |
1 |
108 |
108 |
Frontiers Media SA |
1 |
2784 |
2784 |
Springer Nature |
1 |
1820 |
1820 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Frontiers Media SA |
3 |
5785 |
1928 |
Springer Nature |
3 |
6554 |
2185 |
American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
1 |
1415 |
1415 |
Copernicus GmbH |
1 |
2003 |
2003 |
MDPI AG |
1 |
1509 |
1509 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

PSI - Paul Scherrer Institute
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Copernicus GmbH |
2 |
4607 |
2304 |
MDPI AG |
2 |
3219 |
1610 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

WSL - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Frontiers Media SA |
7 |
16651 |
2379 |
MDPI AG |
3 |
4457 |
1486 |
Copernicus GmbH |
2 |
4207 |
2103 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
2 |
4418 |
2209 |
American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
1 |
1415 |
1415 |
Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
1 |
1713 |
1713 |
IOP Publishing |
1 |
1992 |
1992 |
Springer Nature |
1 |
2143 |
2143 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
