FWF reports data on APCs, BPCs and transformative agreements for 2022
02 Aug 2023The FWF (Austrian Science fund) has updated its data on APC and BPC expenditures as well as articles published under transformative agreements.
Contact person is Katharina Rieck.
Cost Data
The new data set covers APCs for 664 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 1,537,603€ and the average fee is 2,316€. The FWF has a price cap for Hybrid OA (1500 EUR). Whenever costs exceed this cap, FWF funded authors can use other sources to cover the additional costs. In order to avoid distortions regarding mean values in the OpenAPC data set the FWF set does not include articles where these caps apply and where the additional costs were paid by other sources.
The following tables and plots provide an overview of the reported APC expenditures. Reported cost data on BPCs is not listed here, but they can be inspected in the according BPC treemap section.
Data on transformative agreements can be found either in the OpenAPC TA Treemap (articles only) or the Combined Treemap (includes calculated cost data for agreements).
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 217 | 397964 | 1834 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 195 | 553227 | 2837 |
| Springer Nature | 90 | 251811 | 2798 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 15 | 33602 | 2240 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 15 | 36792 | 2453 |
| Elsevier BV | 13 | 35801 | 2754 |
| IOP Publishing | 10 | 21643 | 2164 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 9 | 19834 | 2204 |
| Informa UK Limited | 8 | 14935 | 1867 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 8 | 7027 | 878 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 7 | 18777 | 2682 |
| British Cave Research Association | 7 | 2582 | 369 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 5 | 7913 | 1583 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 5 | 16184 | 3237 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 5 | 11840 | 2368 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 5 | 12891 | 2578 |
| Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) | 5 | 3948 | 790 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 4 | 16566 | 4141 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 4 | 12246 | 3062 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 4 | 3639 | 910 |
| Gesellschaft fur Musiktheorie (GMTH) | 3 | 6293 | 2098 |
| University of Uludag | 3 | 4033 | 1344 |
| Berghahn Books | 2 | 2421 | 1210 |
| EDP Sciences | 2 | 2170 | 1085 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 2 | 6760 | 3380 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 2 | 9698 | 4849 |
| Project MUSE | 2 | 1074 | 537 |
| Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften | 2 | 900 | 450 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1605 | 1605 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 2519 | 2519 |
| American Meteorological Society | 1 | 1130 | 1130 |
| American Society for Clinical Investigation | 1 | 3681 | 3681 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 1806 | 1806 |
| Czech Botanical Society | 1 | 840 | 840 |
| EMBO | 1 | 5184 | 5184 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 2112 | 2112 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1030 | 1030 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 524 | 524 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 2362 | 2362 |
| Termedia Sp. z.o.o. | 1 | 400 | 400 |
| The Electrochemical Society | 1 | 1026 | 1026 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 454 | 454 |
| University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw | 1 | 360 | 360 |
Overview
With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for the FWF now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
