14 Mar 2023
The National Library of Sweden collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in Sweden.
APC expenditures for the University of Skövde and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology have now been made available to OpenAPC.
Contact person for the National Library is Camilla Lindelöw.
Cost data
The new data set provided by the National Library covers publication fees for 169 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 293 723€ and the average fee is 1 738€.
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data sets provides the following overview:
Breakdown by publisher
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
IEEE |
57 |
66503 |
1167 |
MDPI AG |
48 |
77524 |
1615 |
Optica Publishing Group |
14 |
27314 |
1951 |
Informa UK Limited |
5 |
11567 |
2313 |
American Physical Society (APS) |
4 |
10283 |
2571 |
American Physiological Society |
4 |
12996 |
3249 |
Elsevier BV |
4 |
12033 |
3008 |
Springer Nature |
4 |
12781 |
3195 |
ASME International |
3 |
8623 |
2874 |
AIP Publishing |
2 |
5629 |
2814 |
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) |
2 |
3713 |
1857 |
Cogitatio |
2 |
1908 |
954 |
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd |
2 |
5336 |
2668 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
2 |
3621 |
1811 |
American Astronomical Society |
1 |
1163 |
1163 |
Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library |
1 |
350 |
350 |
Frontiers Media SA |
1 |
865 |
865 |
Georg Thieme Verlag KG |
1 |
2572 |
2572 |
Inderscience Publishers |
1 |
2672 |
2672 |
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) |
1 |
2953 |
2953 |
Mary Ann Liebert Inc |
1 |
3529 |
3529 |
MIT Press - Journals |
1 |
1167 |
1167 |
Rockefeller University Press |
1 |
5314 |
5314 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
1 |
1649 |
1649 |
SAE International |
1 |
797 |
797 |
SAGE Publications |
1 |
1033 |
1033 |
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health |
1 |
2270 |
2270 |
Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM) |
1 |
2681 |
2681 |
Society for Neuroscience |
1 |
3066 |
3066 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
1 |
1810 |
1810 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

13 Mar 2023
The Freie Universität Berlin has updated its APC expenditures, providing data on Gold OA articles published under the DEAL agreements with Wiley and Springer Nature in 2022.
The University Library of Freie Universität Berlin is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publication Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.
Contact person is Birgit Schlegel.
Cost data
The new APC data set covers publication fees for 69 articles, total expenditure amounts to 168 372€ and the average fee is 2 440€.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Springer Nature |
51 |
131698 |
2582 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
13 |
26815 |
2063 |
American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
5 |
9859 |
1972 |
Overview
With the recent contribution 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)

13 Mar 2023
The Goethe University Frankfurt has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2022 period.
The University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme until 2021. The new data also contains Gold OA articles published under the DEAL agreements.
Contact Person is Roland Wagner.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 432 articles, total expenditure amounts to 1 009 155€ and the average fee is 2 336€.
The following table provides an overview:
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
115 |
229657 |
1997 |
Springer Nature |
89 |
238044 |
2675 |
Frontiers Media SA |
58 |
146493 |
2526 |
Elsevier BV |
39 |
105955 |
2717 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
16 |
30928 |
1933 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
13 |
28153 |
2166 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
11 |
35477 |
3225 |
Informa UK Limited |
9 |
18767 |
2085 |
Copernicus GmbH |
8 |
14213 |
1777 |
BMJ |
6 |
11546 |
1924 |
American Society for Microbiology |
5 |
13367 |
2673 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
5 |
15239 |
3048 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
4 |
13435 |
3359 |
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
3 |
7787 |
2596 |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |
3 |
9097 |
3032 |
SAGE Publications |
3 |
5096 |
1699 |
sub\urban e.V. |
3 |
2900 |
967 |
American Astronomical Society |
2 |
5505 |
2753 |
Cogitatio |
2 |
1904 |
952 |
German Medical Science |
2 |
1200 |
600 |
Impact Journals, LLC |
2 |
7497 |
3749 |
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) |
2 |
4627 |
2313 |
PeerJ |
2 |
2133 |
1067 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
2 |
2975 |
1488 |
American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
1 |
1805 |
1805 |
American Mathematical Society (AMS) |
1 |
812 |
812 |
American Society of Hematology |
1 |
2606 |
2606 |
American Thoracic Society |
1 |
2092 |
2092 |
British Institute of Radiology |
1 |
1377 |
1377 |
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press |
1 |
2712 |
2712 |
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd |
1 |
3188 |
3188 |
EMBO |
1 |
5712 |
5712 |
F1000 Research, Ltd. |
1 |
1126 |
1126 |
Georg Thieme Verlag KG |
1 |
2978 |
2978 |
IMR Press |
1 |
2257 |
2257 |
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) |
1 |
3601 |
3601 |
Institute of Experimental Botany |
1 |
952 |
952 |
Ivyspring International Publisher |
1 |
1523 |
1523 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
1 |
2030 |
2030 |
Life Science Alliance, LLC |
1 |
3252 |
3252 |
Medknow |
1 |
2014 |
2014 |
MIT Press - Journals |
1 |
1547 |
1547 |
Modestum Limited |
1 |
833 |
833 |
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften |
1 |
321 |
321 |
Pensoft Publishers |
1 |
926 |
926 |
Portland Press Ltd. |
1 |
3082 |
3082 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
1 |
2426 |
2426 |
S. Karger AG |
1 |
1211 |
1211 |
Science Publishing Group |
1 |
1197 |
1197 |
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. |
1 |
851 |
851 |
University of Uludag |
1 |
1900 |
1900 |
Whioce Publishing Pte Ltd |
1 |
2828 |
2828 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Frankfurt now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
