09 Jan 2019
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)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

17 Dec 2018
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)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

05 Dec 2018
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)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
