IST Austria reports APC expenditures for 2017

The Institute of Science and Technology Austria has provided its 2017 APC expenditures, containing both articles supported by library funds and also paid publications from research groups.

Contact person is Patrick Danowski.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 26 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 74 219€ and the average fee is 2 855€.

The following table shows the payments the IST has made to publishers in 2017.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Elsevier BV 6 26535 4422
Springer Nature 5 18654 3731
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 3 7990 2663
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 3 6318 2106
Frontiers Media SA 2 2139 1069
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2 2754 1377
American Physical Society (APS) 1 1444 1444
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 1 799 799
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 2250 2250
The Royal Society 1 2448 2448
Wiley-Blackwell 1 2888 2888

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the IST Austria 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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Goethe University Frankfurt joins OpenAPC

We welcome the Goethe University Frankfurt as new contributing institution!

The University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.

Contact Person is Roland Wagner.

Cost data

The initial data set provided by Frankfurt University Library covers publication fees for 77 articles published in 2018. Total expenditure amounts to 133 747€ and the average fee is 1 737€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 16 28905 1807
Frontiers Media SA 12 22914 1910
MDPI AG 11 12269 1115
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 7 10514 1502
Impact Journals, LLC 4 13412 3353
Elsevier BV 3 10510 3503
Cogitatio 2 1392 696
Copernicus GmbH 2 4070 2035
Kritische Geographie Berlin e.V. 2 1100 550
Wiley-Blackwell 2 4415 2207
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 2742 2742
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 748 748
BMJ 1 1484 1484
Edinburgh University Global Health Society 1 1198 1198
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 1 2459 2459
EMW Publishing 1 319 319
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) 1 1904 1904
Ivyspring International Publisher 1 1960 1960
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 1907 1907
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1100 1100
PeerJ 1 1082 1082
Pensoft Publishers 1 109 109
S. Karger AG 1 4083 4083
SAGE Publications 1 775 775
Schweizerbart 1 1092 1092
The Royal Society 1 1285 1285

Overview

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

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 2017

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

APC expenditures for 4 more institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, introducing one new participant.

Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.

Cost data

The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 120 articles published in 2017. Total expenditure amounts to 177 697€ and the average fee is 1 481€.

The data originates from the Université de Lorraine, the Université Lille 2, the Université de Bordeaux and the Université Evry Val-d’Essonne.

Overview

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

Breakdown by publisher

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 25 42896 1716
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 22 33955 1543
MDPI AG 12 14226 1186
Frontiers Media SA 10 15049 1505
Elsevier BV 7 9381 1340
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 4 4342 1085
OMICS Publishing Group 4 4929 1232
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 3 5837 1946
Optical Society of America (OSA) 3 3371 1124
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 3 830 277
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 4028 2014
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2 1171 585
Wiley-Blackwell 2 2945 1473
AIP Publishing 1 1281 1281
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 1897 1897
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1676 1676
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 1 1337 1337
American Physical Society (APS) 1 2464 2464
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1399 1399
Atlantis Press 1 350 350
BMJ 1 1425 1425
Copernicus GmbH 1 1440 1440
David Publishing Company 1 626 626
Future Medicine Ltd 1 1981 1981
Genetics Society of America 1 2045 2045
Impact Journals, LLC 1 2741 2741
Informa UK Limited 1 1415 1415
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 1680 1680
IOP Publishing 1 1404 1404
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 1821 1821
PeerJ 1 987 987
Rockefeller University Press 1 4500 4500
SAGE Publications 1 2123 2123
Science and Education Publishing 1 142 142

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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