05 Nov 2018
Today we are happy to announce our first APC data ingestion from the Czech Republic!
CzechELib (National Centre for Electronic Information Resources) collects data on APC expenditures from its members and has now started to contribute this data to OpenAPC.
Contact Person for CzechELib is Eva Stopková.
Cost data
The first data set provided by CzechELib covers publication fees for 66 articles published from 2013 - 2017 at the UCT Prague. Total expenditure amounts to 80 858€ and the average fee is 1 225€.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
13 |
17607 |
1354 |
Springer Nature |
12 |
19569 |
1631 |
Springer Science + Business Media |
8 |
10740 |
1343 |
Frontiers Media SA |
7 |
7613 |
1088 |
Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics, AS CR |
6 |
2090 |
348 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
4 |
4742 |
1186 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
3 |
1712 |
571 |
SAGE Publications |
3 |
4605 |
1535 |
Elsevier BV |
2 |
4433 |
2217 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
2 |
4060 |
2030 |
Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences |
1 |
224 |
224 |
German Society for Quality Research on Plant Foods (DGQ) |
1 |
200 |
200 |
HACCP Consulting |
1 |
60 |
60 |
MIT Press - Journals |
1 |
1109 |
1109 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
1 |
742 |
742 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
1 |
1351 |
1351 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

31 Oct 2018
The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France. The next batch of data has now been made available to OpenAPC, containing articles for 5 more institutions.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 60 articles published in 2015. Total expenditure amounts to 89 710€ and the average fee is 1 495€.
The data originates from the Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, the Université de Caen Normandie, the Université de France-Comté, the Université Paris Diderot (Paris VII) and the Université de Strasbourg.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
17 |
22467 |
1322 |
Springer Nature |
14 |
27033 |
1931 |
Frontiers Media SA |
9 |
11446 |
1272 |
MDPI AG |
4 |
5268 |
1317 |
Copernicus GmbH |
3 |
3834 |
1278 |
Elsevier BV |
2 |
4312 |
2156 |
IOP Publishing |
2 |
2880 |
1440 |
OMICS Publishing Group |
2 |
1806 |
903 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
2 |
3307 |
1653 |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |
2 |
2875 |
1438 |
BMJ |
1 |
2200 |
2200 |
Informa UK Limited |
1 |
750 |
750 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
1530 |
1530 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

21 Sep 2018
The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France. The next batch of data has now been made available to OpenAPC, containing articles for 3 more institutions.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 174 articles published in 2015 and 2017. Total expenditure amounts to 300 448€ and the average fee is 1 727€.
The data originates from the ESPCI Paris, the Université Toulouse III and INRA.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Springer Nature |
53 |
95215 |
1797 |
Frontiers Media SA |
36 |
63154 |
1754 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
33 |
47811 |
1449 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
10 |
25829 |
2583 |
MDPI AG |
8 |
7929 |
991 |
Elsevier BV |
7 |
14995 |
2142 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
5 |
9322 |
1864 |
American Society for Microbiology |
4 |
4091 |
1023 |
American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) |
4 |
8165 |
2041 |
Copernicus GmbH |
4 |
4845 |
1211 |
The Company of Biologists |
3 |
9225 |
3075 |
American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB) |
1 |
1350 |
1350 |
EDP Sciences |
1 |
900 |
900 |
Pensoft Publishers |
1 |
300 |
300 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
1 |
592 |
592 |
S. Karger AG |
1 |
3559 |
3559 |
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, |
1 |
1127 |
1127 |
The Royal Society |
1 |
2040 |
2040 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
