Åbo Akademi University updates its APC and BPC expenditures

Åbo Akademi University has updated its expenditures, the latest contribution by Åbo Akademi University Library provides data on APCs and BPCs for the 2022-2023 period.

Contact Person is Malin Fredriksson.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 80 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 173,836€ and the average fee is 2,173€.

The following table provides an overview of the new APC data. Please note that BPCs are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s BPC dataset.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 18 37783 2099
Springer Nature 10 30740 3074
Elsevier BV 9 21576 2397
Frontiers Media SA 8 21309 2664
SAGE Publications 7 9956 1422
Informa UK Limited 6 9577 1596
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 4 10425 2606
Cappelen Damm AS - Cappelen Damm Akademisk 2 3127 1564
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 7213 3607
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2 3657 1828
Wiley-Blackwell 2 5890 2945
American Physiological Society 1 4046 4046
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) 1 2750 2750
CARI Journals Limited 1 221 221
Computers, Materials and Continua (Tech Science Press) 1 1307 1307
Copernicus GmbH 1 2076 2076
EJournal Publishing 1 362 362
International Society for Gerontechnology (ISG) 1 744 744
Sciendo 1 273 273
University of Pitesti 1 186 186
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 620 620

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Åbo Akademi University 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 2 institutions

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

APC expenditures for 2 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 188 articles, total expenditure amounts to 406,318€ and the average fee is 2,161€.

The data originates from the following institutions:

  • HCL - Hospices civils de Lyon
  • Université de Limoges (new)

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 52 104268 2005
Springer Nature 39 99047 2540
Frontiers Media SA 29 75056 2588
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 15 5907 394
Elsevier BV 14 37368 2669
Wiley-Blackwell 6 13363 2227
Informa UK Limited 5 12364 2473
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 5 8951 1790
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 4 10683 2671
BMJ 3 5637 1879
JMIR Publications Inc. 3 7813 2604
American Society for Microbiology 2 5021 2510
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2 7219 3610
AME Publishing Company 1 1303 1303
American Medical Association (AMA) 1 2813 2813
American Thoracic Society 1 2625 2625
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) 1 400 400
Fortune Journals 1 478 478
IEEE 1 1641 1641
Medical Journals Sweden AB 1 1600 1600
Optica Publishing Group 1 1822 1822
Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 1 938 938

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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TU Braunschweig reports 2021-2023 APC expenditures

The Technische Universität Braunschweig has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021-2023 period.

Braunschweig University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support by the DFG under its Open Access Publication Funding Programme.

Contact Person is Carsten Elsner.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 330 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 528,071€ and the average fee is 1,600€.

The following table provides an overview. Please note that articles published in hybrid journals under the DEAL agreements are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements data set.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 189 315788 1671
Springer Nature 36 63289 1758
Frontiers Media SA 21 38830 1849
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 18 6819 379
Copernicus GmbH 15 23322 1555
Elsevier BV 14 19061 1362
Wiley-Blackwell 5 10059 2012
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 4 6073 1518
Optica Publishing Group 3 6103 2034
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 3 4820 1607
Informa UK Limited 2 2207 1104
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 2 3808 1904
IOP Publishing 2 2987 1493
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 3750 1875
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 3269 1635
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 2 1553 776
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 1839 1839
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1443 1443
American Physical Society (APS) 1 1517 1517
BMJ 1 3033 3033
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 899 899
Cogitatio 1 857 857
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 1984 1984
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 2450 2450
PAGEPress Publications 1 714 714
Portland Press Ltd. 1 1597 1597

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the TU Braunschweig 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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