The National Library of Sweden provides APC data for 6 institutions

The National Library of Sweden collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in Sweden.

APC expenditures for 6 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC.

Contact person for the National Library is Johan Fröberg.

Cost data

The new data set provided by the National Library covers publication fees for 432 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 827 848€ and the average fee is 1 916€.

The data originates from the following institutions:

  • BTH Blekinge Institute of Technology
  • Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
  • University of Borås
  • Halmstad University
  • Södertörns University
  • Stockholm University

Overview

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

Breakdown by publisher

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 151 260847 1727
Frontiers Media SA 96 213628 2225
Copernicus GmbH 25 33464 1339
American Dairy Science Association 10 15901 1590
Elsevier BV 10 29645 2964
IEEE 10 17907 1791
Stockholm University Press 10 9764 976
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 8 13588 1699
SAGE Publications 8 7586 948
JMIR Publications Inc. 7 17905 2558
Wiley-Blackwell 6 10436 1739
American Astronomical Society 5 10796 2159
American Physical Society (APS) 5 12016 2403
BMJ 4 13283 3321
Informa UK Limited 4 12136 3034
Springer Nature 4 7387 1847
The Royal Society 4 5035 1259
Wageningen Academic Publishers 4 7395 1849
AAAS 3 12294 4098
American Society for Horticultural Science 3 7050 2350
American Society for Microbiology 3 8743 2914
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 3 8506 2835
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 3 11812 3937
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 3 3201 1067
American Chemical Society (ACS) 2 6936 3468
American Medical Association (AMA) 2 5441 2721
Canadian Science Publishing 2 6240 3120
Cogitatio 2 1140 570
Mary Ann Liebert Inc 2 7025 3513
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 2 1299 649
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2 2685 1342
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 1 2505 2505
American Mathematical Society (AMS) 1 688 688
American Meteorological Society 1 999 999
American Physiological Society 1 2739 2739
American Psychological Association (APA) 1 2721 2721
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) 1 1109 1109
Bristol University Press 1 1636 1636
CABI Publishing 1 2069 2069
Cappelen Damm AS - Cappelen Damm Akademisk 1 1051 1051
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 1 3337 3337
Common Ground Research Networks 1 628 628
CSIRO Publishing 1 2566 2566
Emerald 1 1667 1667
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1362 1362
Human Kinetics 1 1814 1814
IMR Press 1 2517 2517
International Food and Agribusiness Management Association 1 1146 1146
International Society for Gerontechnology (ISG) 1 608 608
IWA Publishing 1 1853 1853
Japan Society for Occupational Health 1 575 575
MIT Press - Journals 1 1045 1045
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1829 1829
PeerJ 1 1592 1592
Retorikforlaget AB 1 78 78
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 1596 1596
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health 1 1926 1926
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 1 568 568
Scientific Societies 1 2773 2773
University of California Press 1 1765 1765

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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Couperin.org provides additional APC data for 3 institutions

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

APC expenditures for 3 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC.

Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.

Cost data

The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 918 articles, total expenditure amounts to 2,165,099€ and the average fee is 2,358€.

The data originates from the following institutions:

  • CEA - Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
  • CNAM - Conservatoire national des arts et métiers
  • INSERM - Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale

Overview

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

Breakdown by publisher

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 230 407121 1770
Frontiers Media SA 176 438126 2489
Springer Nature 150 426695 2845
Elsevier BV 117 264663 2262
Oxford University Press (OUP) 30 83254 2775
Wiley-Blackwell 30 87890 2930
BMJ 21 50760 2417
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 21 45215 2153
Informa UK Limited 13 31771 2444
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 10 28721 2872
American Chemical Society (ACS) 9 24404 2712
Copernicus GmbH 9 18863 2096
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 8 23349 2919
AAAS 7 29900 4271
American Astronomical Society 7 12168 1738
IEEE 7 13321 1903
American Society for Microbiology 6 16089 2681
IOP Publishing 5 11675 2335
Ivyspring International Publisher 4 8470 2117
Life Science Alliance, LLC 4 13000 3250
AIP Publishing 3 6520 2173
American Society for Clinical Investigation 3 14956 4985
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 3 6940 2313
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 3 6125 2042
JMIR Publications Inc. 3 5098 1699
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 3 5761 1920
BioScientifica 2 3784 1892
EMBO 2 9000 4500
European Respiratory Society (ERS) 2 2200 1100
Optica Publishing Group 2 3041 1521
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2 9950 4975
SAGE Publications 2 4490 2245
Society for Neuroscience 2 3334 1667
The Company of Biologists 2 6660 3330
The Electrochemical Society 2 1537 769
American Medical Association (AMA) 1 5000 5000
American Physical Society (APS) 1 4282 4282
American Physiological Society 1 3246 3246
American Society of Hematology 1 3805 3805
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1836 1836
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) 1 2002 2002
Gavin Publishers 1 1569 1569
IMR Press 1 765 765
Medicina (B Aires) 1 500 500
Medwin Publishers 1 2649 2649
PeerJ 1 1296 1296
Royal College of Psychiatrists 1 2266 2266
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health 1 2300 2300
Scientific Archives LLC 1 750 750
The American Association of Immunologists 1 1595 1595
The Endocrine Society 1 2586 2586
The Royal Society 1 1800 1800
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 2000 2000

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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SNSF reports 2023 APC expenditures

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has provided its APC data for the 2023 period as well as some remaining articles for 2021 and 2022.

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 Simon Gorin.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 1,239 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 3,564,582€ and the average fee is 2,877€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 349 1261521 3615
Frontiers Media SA 199 591306 2971
MDPI AG 105 200363 1908
Copernicus GmbH 90 147741 1642
Elsevier BV 79 263771 3339
Oxford University Press (OUP) 57 172304 3023
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 41 108032 2635
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 36 141765 3938
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 35 95352 2724
BMJ 34 99197 2918
American Society for Microbiology 30 81745 2725
American Chemical Society (ACS) 28 81033 2894
Wiley-Blackwell 25 67571 2703
American Physical Society (APS) 13 34276 2637
AIP Publishing 9 22674 2519
Optica Publishing Group 9 19216 2135
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 9 6508 723
Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften 8 3701 463
American Astronomical Society 6 15856 2643
SAGE Publications 6 7742 1290
The Royal Society 6 7904 1317
American Medical Association (AMA) 5 15437 3087
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 5 10632 2126
American Society for Clinical Investigation 4 18993 4748
European Respiratory Society (ERS) 4 2316 579
Informa UK Limited 4 7774 1943
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 3 5221 1740
F1000 Research, Ltd. 3 3704 1235
JMIR Publications Inc. 3 7554 2518
Microbiology Society 3 7261 2420
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 3 4414 1471
ALTEX Edition 2 2943 1472
American Meteorological Society 2 4641 2321
Hogrefe Publishing Group 2 4033 2017
MIT Press - Journals 2 2367 1183
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 2 2573 1286
Royal College of Psychiatrists 2 4761 2380
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1778 1778
British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery 1 1688 1688
Caltech Library 1 257 257
Elewa Biosciences Journals 1 206 206
EMBO 1 5454 5454
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) 1 2511 2511
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 952 952
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 2050 2050
International Global Health Society 1 1173 1173
IOP Publishing 1 1765 1765
PeerJ 1 1523 1523
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 858 858
S. Karger AG 1 3757 3757
Schweizerbart 1 1981 1981
Scientific Societies 1 1852 1852
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 2573 2573

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the SNSF 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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