10 Mar 2021
The Veneto Institute of Oncology (IOV IRCCS) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 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 39 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 95,896€ and the average fee is 2,459€.
The following table shows the payments the IOV Library has reported for 2020.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Frontiers Media SA |
9 |
25140 |
2793 |
MDPI AG |
9 |
19003 |
2111 |
Springer Nature |
5 |
10967 |
2193 |
Elsevier BV |
4 |
13086 |
3271 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
3 |
6967 |
2322 |
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) |
2 |
6844 |
3422 |
Informa UK Limited |
2 |
6332 |
3166 |
AME Publishing Company |
1 |
1441 |
1441 |
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) |
1 |
1952 |
1952 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
2294 |
2294 |
S. Karger AG |
1 |
1466 |
1466 |
SAGE Publications |
1 |
405 |
405 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

09 Mar 2021
The Justus Liebig University Gießen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides more data for the 2019 and 2020 periods and several cost updates for older articles.
The JLU University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which was supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.
Contact person is Florian Ruckelshausen.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 244 articles, total expenditure amounts to 437 017€ and the average fee is 1 791€. It also provided cost updates to 30 articles already reported earlier, these changes are not shown here.
The following table shows the payments the JLU library has made to publishers since their last report.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
69 |
114290 |
1656 |
Springer Nature |
55 |
98189 |
1785 |
Frontiers Media SA |
50 |
91204 |
1824 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
17 |
31514 |
1854 |
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) |
10 |
19198 |
1920 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
9 |
16270 |
1808 |
SAGE Publications |
5 |
2657 |
531 |
American Society for Microbiology |
4 |
11816 |
2954 |
Elsevier BV |
4 |
10993 |
2748 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
3 |
8178 |
2726 |
BMJ |
2 |
3199 |
1600 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
2 |
4439 |
2219 |
Informa UK Limited |
2 |
2299 |
1150 |
Pensoft Publishers |
2 |
1773 |
886 |
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
1 |
4459 |
4459 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
1 |
1214 |
1214 |
American Physical Society (APS) |
1 |
3949 |
3949 |
Copernicus GmbH |
1 |
1674 |
1674 |
Impact Journals, LLC |
1 |
3625 |
3625 |
Ivyspring International Publisher |
1 |
1829 |
1829 |
Japanese Society for Dental Materials and Devices |
1 |
721 |
721 |
Microbiology Society |
1 |
934 |
934 |
The Royal Society |
1 |
1285 |
1285 |
Wageningen Academic Publishers |
1 |
1309 |
1309 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the JLU now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

03 Mar 2021
We welcome Lib4RI (Library for the Research Institutes within the ETH Domain) as new contributing institution!
Lib4RI’s initial contribution 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 initial data set covers publication fees for 40 articles published at Empa and Eawag in 2019. Total expenditure amounts to 62,487€ and the average fee is 1,562€. 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 |
10 |
11868 |
1187 |
Copernicus GmbH |
3 |
5251 |
1750 |
Springer Nature |
3 |
5547 |
1849 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
2 |
1842 |
921 |
AAAS |
1 |
4329 |
4329 |
ALTEX Edition |
1 |
2154 |
2154 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
1 |
721 |
721 |
Elsevier BV |
1 |
560 |
560 |
Göller Verlag GmbH |
1 |
1400 |
1400 |
IEEE |
1 |
1599 |
1599 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
1 |
1924 |
1924 |
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 |
Springer Nature |
5 |
8237 |
1647 |
Frontiers Media SA |
2 |
4223 |
2112 |
MDPI AG |
2 |
3292 |
1646 |
ALTEX Edition |
1 |
2154 |
2154 |
Copernicus GmbH |
1 |
2003 |
2003 |
IEEE |
1 |
1683 |
1683 |
Resilience Alliance, Inc. |
1 |
1130 |
1130 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
1 |
921 |
921 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
1 |
1648 |
1648 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
