08 Oct 2019
The University of Rhode Island (URI) has updated its APC expenditures, the recent contribution provides cost data on APCs paid between June 2018 and October 2019.
The URI University Libraries operate the University’s Open Access Fund, which underwrites publication fees for articles published in eligible open access journals.
Contact Person is Andrée Rathemacher.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 13 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 16 196€ and the average fee is 1 246€.
The following table provides an overview of the new data:
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| Frontiers Media SA |
5 |
5638 |
1128 |
| MDPI AG |
3 |
3456 |
1152 |
| Inter-Research Science Center |
1 |
1600 |
1600 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
1402 |
1402 |
| Springer Nature |
1 |
1583 |
1583 |
| Swansea University |
1 |
1145 |
1145 |
| Wiley-Blackwell |
1 |
1371 |
1371 |
With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for the URI now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
27 Sep 2019
The Technische Universität Wien has updated its APC expenditures. The recent contribution by TU Wien’s University Library provides data for the 2018 period.
Contact person is Magdalena Andrae.
Cost Data
The new data set covers publication fees for 33 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 43 469€ and the average fee is 1 317€.
The following table shows the payments the University Library of TU Wien has made to publishers in 2018 (including taxes and discounts).
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| Springer Nature |
11 |
16049 |
1459 |
| MDPI AG |
10 |
13819 |
1382 |
| Frontiers Media SA |
4 |
7195 |
1799 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) |
4 |
1020 |
255 |
| Informa UK Limited |
2 |
686 |
343 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
1978 |
1978 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. |
1 |
2722 |
2722 |
With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for TU Wien now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
25 Sep 2019
The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
Additional APC expenditures for the Université de Lorraine have now been made available to OpenAPC.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 61 articles published at the Université de Lorraine in 2018. Total expenditure amounts to 89 286€ and the average fee is 1 464€.
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data set provides the following overview:
Breakdown by publisher
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| MDPI AG |
27 |
33338 |
1235 |
| Springer Nature |
9 |
15960 |
1773 |
| Frontiers Media SA |
5 |
8028 |
1606 |
| Elsevier BV |
4 |
12133 |
3033 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
3 |
1150 |
383 |
| Wiley-Blackwell |
3 |
7510 |
2503 |
| European Association of Geochemistry |
2 |
2500 |
1250 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
1 |
2977 |
2977 |
| American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) |
1 |
171 |
171 |
| American Society for Microbiology |
1 |
450 |
450 |
| ASTES Journal |
1 |
134 |
134 |
| Impact Journals, LLC |
1 |
2916 |
2916 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. |
1 |
1376 |
1376 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
1 |
429 |
429 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, |
1 |
214 |
214 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
