The National Library of Sweden provides APC data for 2 institutions

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)

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Freie Universität Berlin reports its 2022 DEAL data

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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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University of Frankfurt reports its 2022 APC expenditures

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)

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