Lib4RI reports its 2020 APC expenditures

Lib4RI (Library for the Research Institutes within the ETH Domain) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period.

Lib4RI provides APC data for two institutes: Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology) and Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology).

Contact persons are Jochen Bihn and Sarah Last.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 48 articles published at Empa and Eawag in 2020. Total expenditure amounts to 80,240€ and the average fee is 1,672€. 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 17 24050 1415
Springer Nature 5 11258 2252
Copernicus GmbH 4 6067 1517
Elsevier BV 4 7410 1852
Frontiers Media SA 4 8400 2100
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 2076 2076
IEEE 1 1569 1569
The Royal Society 1 1090 1090
Wiley-Blackwell 1 1734 1734

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 3 6360 2120
Elsevier BV 2 2876 1438
Copernicus GmbH 1 1803 1803
Pensoft Publishers 1 1133 1133
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1505 1505
SAGE Publications 1 1358 1358
Wiley-Blackwell 1 1551 1551

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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FWF reports data on APCs, BPCs and transformative agreements for 2020

The FWF (Austrian Science fund) has updated its data on APC and BPC expenditures as well as articles published under transformative agreements.

Contact person is Katharina Rieck.

Cost Data

The new data set covers APCs for 682 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 1,302,069€ and the average fee is 1,909€. In 2014, the FWF introduced price caps for gold OA (EUR 2500) and for hybrid OA (EUR 1500). Whenever costs exceed those caps, FWF funded authors can use other sources to cover the additional costs. In order to avoid distortions regarding mean values in the OpenAPC data set the FWF set does not include articles where these caps apply and where the additional costs were paid by other sources.

The following tables and plots provide an overview of the reported APC expenditures. Reported cost data on BPCs is not listed here, but they can be inspected in the according BPC treemap section.

Data on transformative agreements can be found either in the OpenAPC TA Treemap (articles only) or the Combined Treemap (includes calculated cost data for agreements).

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 266 386070 1451
Frontiers Media SA 130 318128 2447
Springer Nature 96 200942 2093
Elsevier BV 51 135535 2658
IOP Publishing 20 39262 1963
Oxford University Press (OUP) 12 29130 2428
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 10 19235 1923
Informa UK Limited 9 9771 1086
Copernicus GmbH 8 13644 1706
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 8 12905 1613
Wiley-Blackwell 8 19096 2387
American Physical Society (APS) 5 8251 1650
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 5 8455 1691
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) 4 7687 1922
American Chemical Society (ACS) 3 6971 2324
Optical Society of America (OSA) 3 6462 2154
Pensoft Publishers 3 2814 938
The Royal Society 3 5472 1824
AIP Publishing 2 5062 2531
American Society for Microbiology 2 3263 1632
American Society of Hematology 2 6592 3296
Cell Physiol Biochem Press GmbH and Co KG 2 3570 1785
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2 3618 1809
Ivyspring International Publisher 2 3941 1970
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2 6413 3206
Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) 2 1008 504
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2 4380 2190
Aging and Disease 1 1823 1823
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 1 4337 4337
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 1391 1391
American Meteorological Society 1 1171 1171
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 1731 1731
Herpetologists League 1 1825 1825
International Global Health Society 1 1089 1089
Norwegian Polar Institute 1 948 948
Open Access Text Pvt, Ltd. 1 2981 2981
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 669 669
PeerJ 1 893 893
Philosophy Documentation Center 1 720 720
Portland Press Ltd. 1 1144 1144
Royal College of Psychiatrists 1 3438 3438
Scientific Societies 1 1578 1578
Society for Neuroscience 1 2388 2388
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng 1 1164 1164
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 1044 1044
University of Wisconsin Press 1 1781 1781
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt 1 2276 2276

Overview

With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for the FWF 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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New APC data harvested from Regensburg University

New APC data has been harvested from the institutional repository of Regensburg University, which was the first OpenAPc participant to switch to data provision via OAI-PMH.

Regensburg University Library is in charge of the central publication fund at University of Regensburg, which received support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.

Contact person is Dr. Gernot Deinzer.

Cost data

The new data covers publication fees for 87 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 163 036€ and the average fee is 1 874€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 41 78310 1910
Frontiers Media SA 23 42150 1833
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 6 10021 1670
Oxford University Press (OUP) 4 7324 1831
Informa UK Limited 3 5448 1816
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2 4055 2028
Springer Nature 2 4611 2306
AIP Publishing 1 2703 2703
British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery 1 1788 1788
Elsevier BV 1 1559 1559
Life Science Alliance, LLC 1 2924 2924
PAGEPress Publications 1 1488 1488
SAGE Publications 1 655 655

Overview

With the recent set of harvest data included, the overall APC data for Regensburg 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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