08 Dec 2020
The University of Milan has reported its APC expenditures for the 2019 period.
Contact person is Paola Galimberti.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 302 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 502 375€ and the average fee is 1 663€.
The following table shows the payments the University of Milan has made to publishers in 2020:
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
149 |
208116 |
1397 |
Frontiers Media SA |
33 |
83221 |
2522 |
Springer Nature |
31 |
72208 |
2329 |
Elsevier BV |
15 |
29488 |
1966 |
Informa UK Limited |
11 |
10933 |
994 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
8 |
13151 |
1644 |
IEEE |
6 |
11999 |
2000 |
PAGEPress Publications |
5 |
2418 |
484 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
5 |
10057 |
2011 |
BMJ |
4 |
6356 |
1589 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
3 |
7027 |
2342 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
2 |
1823 |
911 |
Ivyspring International Publisher |
2 |
3538 |
1769 |
PeerJ |
2 |
2789 |
1394 |
Acta Dermato-Venereologica |
1 |
450 |
450 |
AME Publishing Company |
1 |
1126 |
1126 |
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
1 |
5832 |
5832 |
Avanti Publishers |
1 |
300 |
300 |
Canadian Center of Science and Education |
1 |
282 |
282 |
Cell Physiol Biochem Press GmbH and Co KG |
1 |
1785 |
1785 |
Chiriotti Editori |
1 |
427 |
427 |
Copernicus GmbH |
1 |
420 |
420 |
Edizioni ETS |
1 |
100 |
100 |
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd |
1 |
3038 |
3038 |
Gavin |
1 |
1500 |
1500 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
790 |
790 |
IOP Publishing |
1 |
1467 |
1467 |
Italian Society of Paediatric Dentistry |
1 |
500 |
500 |
Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation |
1 |
1000 |
1000 |
Led Edizioni Universitarie |
1 |
1798 |
1798 |
Pacini Editore |
1 |
50 |
50 |
Rockefeller University Press |
1 |
2430 |
2430 |
S. Karger AG |
1 |
5317 |
5317 |
Termedia Sp. z.o.o. |
1 |
2500 |
2500 |
The Company of Biologists |
1 |
3000 |
3000 |
The Korean Surgical Society |
1 |
1142 |
1142 |
The Royal Society |
1 |
2040 |
2040 |
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. |
1 |
407 |
407 |
Wageningen Academic Publishers |
1 |
1200 |
1200 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
1 |
350 |
350 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Milan now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

04 Dec 2020
We welcome the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld as new contributing institution!
The University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld Library is in charge of the institution’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.
Contact person for the data set is Katharina Schulz.
About the data set
The initial data set contributed by the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld contains information on publication fees covered by the institutional Open Access Publishing Fund from 2017 to 2020.
Cost Data
The data covers publication fees for 46 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 50 534€ and the average fee is 1 099€.
The following table and plots provide an overview:
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
23 |
28698 |
1248 |
AIMS |
8 |
2146 |
268 |
SAGE Publications |
7 |
9055 |
1294 |
AIP Publishing |
2 |
2866 |
1433 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
2 |
3694 |
1847 |
Copernicus GmbH |
1 |
1549 |
1549 |
Index Copernicus |
1 |
357 |
357 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
1 |
1751 |
1751 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
1 |
417 |
417 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

26 Nov 2020
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has provided additional APC data for the 2019 and 2020 periods.
Within the framework of the SNSF’s OA policy, grantees are required to publish the results of their research in the form of Open Access publications. APC data on those publications is kindly made available to OpenAPC.
Contact Person for the SNSF is Christian Gutknecht.
Cost data
The updated data set provided by the SNSF covers publication fees for 759 articles published in 2019 and 2020. Total expenditure amounts to 1 684 650€ and the average fee is 2 220€. The following table provides an overview:
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Springer Nature |
202 |
554339 |
2744 |
Frontiers Media SA |
117 |
276865 |
2366 |
MDPI AG |
101 |
129959 |
1287 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
52 |
94672 |
1821 |
Elsevier BV |
48 |
143342 |
2986 |
Copernicus GmbH |
39 |
72481 |
1858 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
27 |
64406 |
2385 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
20 |
36675 |
1834 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
16 |
41097 |
2569 |
BMJ |
14 |
26821 |
1916 |
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd |
13 |
30521 |
2348 |
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
12 |
46862 |
3905 |
Informa UK Limited |
8 |
15631 |
1954 |
PeerJ |
8 |
7221 |
903 |
American Society for Microbiology |
7 |
19273 |
2753 |
IOP Publishing |
6 |
10422 |
1737 |
SAGE Publications |
6 |
9206 |
1534 |
The Royal Society |
6 |
6483 |
1081 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
5 |
9170 |
1834 |
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) |
4 |
7142 |
1786 |
Cogitatio |
4 |
3915 |
979 |
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. |
4 |
3982 |
996 |
F1000 Research, Ltd. |
3 |
2451 |
817 |
Life Science Alliance, LLC |
3 |
8073 |
2691 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
3 |
3682 |
1227 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
2 |
1998 |
999 |
Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
2 |
3144 |
1572 |
EMBO |
2 |
8376 |
4188 |
Genetics Society of America |
2 |
3978 |
1989 |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |
2 |
3592 |
1796 |
Society for Neuroscience |
2 |
5258 |
2629 |
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng |
2 |
2436 |
1218 |
The Company of Biologists |
2 |
4908 |
2454 |
The Endocrine Society |
2 |
3159 |
1579 |
Acta Dermato-Venereologica |
1 |
1741 |
1741 |
AIP Publishing |
1 |
1431 |
1431 |
American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
1 |
1459 |
1459 |
American Medical Association (AMA) |
1 |
2975 |
2975 |
American Physical Society (APS) |
1 |
3207 |
3207 |
Association Palaeovertebrata |
1 |
1080 |
1080 |
Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. |
1 |
2231 |
2231 |
Cell Physiol Biochem Press GmbH and Co KG |
1 |
1797 |
1797 |
EDP Sciences |
1 |
989 |
989 |
Joule Inc. |
1 |
2096 |
2096 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
1 |
1636 |
1636 |
Pensoft Publishers |
1 |
786 |
786 |
S. Karger AG |
1 |
1681 |
1681 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the SNSF now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
