Bern University of Applied Sciences reports its 2022 APC expenditures

Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2022 period.

The BFH libraries collect data on institutional APC expenditures and kindly provide the data sets to OpenAPC.

Contact Person is Laura Tobler.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 40 articles, total expenditure amounts to 77,571€ and the average fee is 1,939€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 18 32074 1782
Frontiers Media SA 10 20953 2095
SAGE Publications 3 6966 2322
Wiley-Blackwell 3 6624 2208
Springer Nature 2 4394 2197
Elsevier BV 1 3209 3209
IOS Press 1 1600 1600
ISJ International Scholars Journals 1 750 750
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 1000 1000

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the BFH now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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Couperin.org provides additional APC data for 11 institutions

The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.

APC expenditures for 11 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, with one institution being included for the first time.

Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.

Cost data

The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 371 articles, total expenditure amounts to 678,359€ and the average fee is 1,828€. The data also contained 8 BPC records which are not listed here.

The data originates from the following institutions:

  • Université d’Orléans (new)
  • Université de Rennes 2
  • Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne
  • Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale
  • Université de Poitiers
  • Université du Havre
  • Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
  • Université de Côte d’Azur
  • Université Technologique de Compiègne
  • CIRAD
  • Université de Bourgogne

Overview

A detailed analysis of the contributed data sets provides the following overview:

Breakdown by publisher

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 125 200616 1605
Springer Nature 53 128023 2416
Frontiers Media SA 52 129279 2486
Elsevier BV 42 65289 1554
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 13 22764 1751
Copernicus GmbH 9 11742 1305
Oxford University Press (OUP) 9 23742 2638
Wiley-Blackwell 9 18492 2055
American Society for Microbiology 5 8659 1732
IEEE 5 7270 1454
Informa UK Limited 4 4541 1135
Société zoologique de France 4 645 161
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 3 3832 1277
IOP Publishing 3 4860 1620
Scientific Societies 3 3744 1248
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2 2603 1302
American Physical Society (APS) 2 5019 2509
BMJ 2 3150 1575
The Science and Information Organization 2 935 467
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1108 1108
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) 1 887 887
American Society for Nutrition 1 1459 1459
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1 2412 2412
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 1 1426 1426
David Publishing Company 1 693 693
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 1 2617 2617
Emerald 1 1604 1604
European Respiratory Society (ERS) 1 2100 2100
Hilaris 1 2019 2019
IMR Press 1 519 519
Institute of Agrophysics Polish Academy of Sciences 1 800 800
International Information and Engineering Technology Association 1 273 273
International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) 1 975 975
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 1500 1500
Pensoft Publishers 1 4400 4400
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 2284 2284
Research Outreach 1 1446 1446
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 905 905
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 1 592 592
sPage.direcT 1 1153 1153
The Royal Society 1 710 710
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 405 405
University of Bern 1 870 870

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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DLR reports its 2022 APC expenditures

The German Aerospace Center (DLR - Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) has provided its APC expenditures for the 2022 period.

The DLR Library is responsible for compiling data sets on institutional APC expenditures and kindly provides them to OpenAPC.

Contact Person is Martin Wimmer.

Cost data

The new data sets cover publication fees for 332 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 588,113€ and the average fee is 1,771€.

The following table provides an overview:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 135 216836 1606
Elsevier BV 49 112077 2287
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 39 58297 1495
Copernicus GmbH 31 50616 1633
Frontiers Media SA 16 29127 1820
Springer Nature 15 28243 1883
Wiley-Blackwell 7 12072 1725
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 5 10654 2131
American Astronomical Society 3 6159 2053
AIP Publishing 2 4703 2351
American Chemical Society (ACS) 2 7621 3811
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2 3034 1517
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) 2 2347 1174
ASME International 2 5102 2551
Informa UK Limited 2 2690 1345
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 2 3280 1640
Optica Publishing Group 2 5826 2913
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 4218 2109
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) 1 839 839
Aerospace Medical Association 1 1352 1352
AHS International dba Vertical Flight Society 1 1910 1910
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 3632 3632
American Meteorological Society 1 5367 5367
American Physical Society (APS) 1 3574 3574
EDP Sciences 1 880 880
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 1 2845 2845
Institute of Navigation 1 936 936
International Union of Radio Science (URSI) 1 400 400
Mary Ann Liebert Inc 1 817 817
PeerJ 1 641 641
Schweizerbart 1 1718 1718
Silesian University of Technology 1 300 300

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the DLR now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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