22 Nov 2016
We welcome OpenAIRE as our new contributing organisation! OpenAIRE coordinates the FP7 Post-Grant OA Pilot on behalf of the European Commission and has decided to share with OpenAPC the data for APC payments made thus far under this ongoing funding initiative. A full dataset with be provided upon the conclusion of this pilot as of Apr 30th, 2017.
Contact person is Pablo de Castro.
Cost Data
The dataset covers publication fees for 546 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 792 703€ and the average fee is 1 452€.
The following table and plots show the payments made to publishers by the FP7 Post-Grant OA Pilot.
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| Springer Nature |
184 |
278510 |
1514 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
72 |
103879 |
1443 |
| Frontiers Media SA |
51 |
74115 |
1453 |
| MDPI AG |
47 |
58911 |
1253 |
| Copernicus GmbH |
35 |
46313 |
1323 |
| Elsevier BV |
21 |
31050 |
1479 |
| IOP Publishing |
14 |
20307 |
1451 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) |
14 |
25164 |
1797 |
| Wiley-Blackwell |
14 |
21460 |
1533 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
13 |
18037 |
1387 |
| BMJ |
9 |
15361 |
1707 |
| SAGE Publications |
6 |
6990 |
1165 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
5 |
6935 |
1387 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) |
5 |
9078 |
1816 |
| AIP Publishing |
4 |
5648 |
1412 |
| American Society for Microbiology |
4 |
6394 |
1599 |
| Impact Journals, LLC |
4 |
8000 |
2000 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. |
4 |
4505 |
1126 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
3 |
4758 |
1586 |
| EMBO |
3 |
6000 |
2000 |
| Informa UK Limited |
3 |
2144 |
715 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. |
3 |
5335 |
1778 |
| American Society for Clinical Investigation |
2 |
4000 |
2000 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
2 |
2885 |
1442 |
| Co-Action Publishing |
2 |
2670 |
1335 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. |
2 |
3201 |
1600 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher |
2 |
2516 |
1258 |
| PeerJ |
2 |
1154 |
577 |
| The Company of Biologists |
2 |
3365 |
1683 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
2 |
2275 |
1138 |
| American Physical Society (APS) |
1 |
1561 |
1561 |
| Cancer Intelligence |
1 |
1234 |
1234 |
| Crop Science Society of America |
1 |
1988 |
1988 |
| Ess & Ess Research Publications |
1 |
486 |
486 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. |
1 |
468 |
468 |
| FapUNIFESP (SciELO) |
1 |
209 |
209 |
| International Mountain Society (IMS) and United Nations University |
1 |
464 |
464 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc |
1 |
1026 |
1026 |
| OMICS Publishing Group |
1 |
1907 |
1907 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
1 |
476 |
476 |
| RonPub |
1 |
240 |
240 |
| The Royal Society |
1 |
1680 |
1680 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
03 Nov 2016
We welcome the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg as new contributing institution! The BIS (Library and Information System) 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 Kim Braun.
Cost Data
The dataset covers publication fees for 45 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 47 117€ and the average fee is 1 047€.
The following table and plots show the payments the BIS has made to publishers in 2016 (including taxes and discounts).
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| Frontiers Media SA |
12 |
16747 |
1396 |
| Springer Nature |
6 |
6348 |
1058 |
| MDPI AG |
5 |
6088 |
1218 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
4 |
5137 |
1284 |
| SAGE Publications |
4 |
1716 |
429 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
2 |
1210 |
605 |
| BMJ |
1 |
1520 |
1520 |
| Botanical Society of America |
1 |
313 |
313 |
| Copernicus GmbH |
1 |
1339 |
1339 |
| Elsevier BV |
1 |
1218 |
1218 |
| European Optical Society |
1 |
350 |
350 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
1361 |
1361 |
| IOP Publishing |
1 |
1014 |
1014 |
| Medip Academy |
1 |
63 |
63 |
| Mongabay |
1 |
230 |
230 |
| PAGEPress Publications |
1 |
500 |
500 |
| PeerJ |
1 |
622 |
622 |
| Wiley-Blackwell |
1 |
1342 |
1342 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
27 Oct 2016
We welcome Harvard University Library as new contributing institution! The Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC) manages the HOPE Fund which provides funds for the reimbursement of article processing fees.
Contact person is Amanda Cullin.
About the dataset
The dataset contributed by the OSC contains information on publication fees paid over 7 years from 2010 to 2016.
Cost Data
The data covers publication fees for 95 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 83 793€ and the average fee is 882€.
The following table and plots show the payments the OSC has made to publishers in the last 7 years.
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
39 |
31044 |
796 |
| Frontiers Media SA |
9 |
7191 |
799 |
| Springer Nature |
7 |
9502 |
1357 |
| Elsevier BV |
6 |
10609 |
1768 |
| Springer Science + Business Media |
6 |
5573 |
929 |
| IOP Publishing |
5 |
3236 |
647 |
| PeerJ |
4 |
680 |
170 |
| BMJ |
3 |
1238 |
413 |
| MDPI AG |
3 |
2029 |
676 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
2 |
2458 |
1229 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. |
2 |
1324 |
662 |
| AIP Publishing |
1 |
701 |
701 |
| Copernicus GmbH |
1 |
1141 |
1141 |
| Harvard University Press |
1 |
1623 |
1623 |
| International AIDS Society |
1 |
1744 |
1744 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) |
1 |
690 |
690 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
1 |
1353 |
1353 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
565 |
565 |
| SAGE Publications |
1 |
75 |
75 |
| The Company of Biologists |
1 |
1017 |
1017 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
