10 Jan 2017
The Technische Universität Wien has updated its APC expenditures. The recent contribution by TU Wien’s University Library provides data for the 2016 period.
Contact person is Magdalena Andrae.
Cost Data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 12 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 18 497€ and the average fee is 1 541€.
The following table shows the payments the University Library of TU Wien has made to publishers in 2016 (including taxes and discounts).
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
4 |
7733 |
1933 |
Springer Nature |
3 |
3174 |
1058 |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
2 |
3021 |
1510 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
1760 |
1760 |
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) |
1 |
1245 |
1245 |
MDPI AG |
1 |
1565 |
1565 |
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)

09 Jan 2017
We welcome the University of Calgary as new contributing institution! The LCR (Libraries and Cultural Resources) manages Calgary’s Open Access Authors Fund which pays APCs for articles published in fully OA journals.
Contact person is Christie Hurrell.
About the dataset
The dataset contributed by the LCR contains information on publication fees paid over 9 years from 2008 to 2016.
Cost Data
The data covers publication fees for 929 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 1 085 725€ and the average fee is 1 169€.
The following table and plots show the payments Calgary’s Open Access Authors Fund has made to publishers in the last 9 years.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Springer Science + Business Media |
366 |
419924 |
1147 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
118 |
93291 |
791 |
Springer Nature |
114 |
179591 |
1575 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
82 |
94180 |
1149 |
MDPI AG |
25 |
25706 |
1028 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
22 |
39574 |
1799 |
SAGE Publications |
19 |
25697 |
1352 |
Dove Medical Press Ltd. |
17 |
22380 |
1316 |
Elsevier BV |
16 |
22371 |
1398 |
OMICS Publishing Group |
16 |
10091 |
631 |
Frontiers Media SA |
15 |
18803 |
1254 |
BMJ |
11 |
16455 |
1496 |
IOP Publishing |
11 |
13860 |
1260 |
Joule Inc. |
11 |
13271 |
1206 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
9 |
16245 |
1805 |
Copernicus GmbH |
7 |
7343 |
1049 |
Canadian Center of Science and Education |
5 |
1125 |
225 |
Informa UK Limited |
5 |
8432 |
1686 |
Impact Journals, LLC |
4 |
5578 |
1395 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
4 |
5225 |
1306 |
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, |
4 |
2333 |
583 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
3 |
4465 |
1488 |
Nature Publishing Group |
3 |
5254 |
1751 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
3 |
4162 |
1387 |
Sciedu Press |
3 |
612 |
204 |
Austin Publications |
2 |
1209 |
605 |
Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
2 |
4331 |
2165 |
Clute Institute |
2 |
1236 |
618 |
Co-Action Publishing |
2 |
2433 |
1216 |
Enliven Archive |
2 |
1487 |
743 |
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) |
2 |
244 |
122 |
MultiMed Inc. |
2 |
719 |
359 |
The Company of Biologists |
2 |
2192 |
1096 |
The Royal Society |
2 |
2469 |
1234 |
American Society of Hematology |
1 |
2706 |
2706 |
Atharva Scientific Publications |
1 |
201 |
201 |
Canadian Science Publishing |
1 |
1308 |
1308 |
Cogitatio |
1 |
801 |
801 |
East West Institute |
1 |
270 |
270 |
Future Science, LTD |
1 |
594 |
594 |
Global Research & Development Services |
1 |
136 |
136 |
Herald Scholarly Open Access |
1 |
850 |
850 |
IGIP |
1 |
50 |
50 |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
1 |
1354 |
1354 |
Internet Scientific Publications |
1 |
168 |
168 |
Lifescience Global |
1 |
311 |
311 |
Medknow |
1 |
1215 |
1215 |
MIR Center for Socio-Economic Research |
1 |
145 |
145 |
Omics Publishing Group |
1 |
93 |
93 |
Open Medicine Publications |
1 |
1174 |
1174 |
Resilience Alliance, Inc. |
1 |
741 |
741 |
S. Karger AG |
1 |
1321 |
1321 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

09 Jan 2017
The Freie Universität Berlin has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2016 period.
The University Library of Freie Universität Berlin is in charge of the University’s central publication fund, which is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.
Contact person is Birgit Schlegel.
Cost data
FU Berlin’s APC expenditures for 2016 now include 69 articles, amounting to 95 354€ and an average fee of 1 382€.
The following table shows the payments the library has made to publishers in 2016:
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Frontiers Media SA |
15 |
25245 |
1683 |
Springer Nature |
12 |
19389 |
1616 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
11 |
16100 |
1464 |
MDPI AG |
4 |
5949 |
1487 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
4 |
6156 |
1539 |
Elsevier BV |
3 |
5525 |
1842 |
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, |
3 |
1752 |
584 |
Co-Action Publishing |
2 |
3237 |
1618 |
Copernicus GmbH |
2 |
3392 |
1696 |
Kritische Geographie Berlin e.V. |
2 |
600 |
300 |
OMICS Publishing Group |
2 |
1717 |
858 |
Schweizerbart |
2 |
2541 |
1270 |
Botanical Society of America |
1 |
329 |
329 |
Canadian Center of Science and Education |
1 |
322 |
322 |
National Library of Serbia |
1 |
150 |
150 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
1428 |
1428 |
SAGE Publications |
1 |
174 |
174 |
ScienceOpen |
1 |
849 |
849 |
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. |
1 |
500 |
500 |
Overview
With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for the FU Berlin now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
