07 Feb 2023
The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for INRAE (Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement) in 2021 have now been made available to OpenAPC.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 498 articles published in 2021. Total expenditure amounts to 923 699€ and the average fee is 1 855€.
The following table provides an overview of the new data:
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
118 |
163048 |
1382 |
Frontiers Media SA |
83 |
185551 |
2236 |
Springer Nature |
77 |
152946 |
1986 |
Elsevier BV |
71 |
119192 |
1679 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
37 |
84652 |
2288 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
20 |
33477 |
1674 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
19 |
50385 |
2652 |
American Society for Microbiology |
13 |
24729 |
1902 |
Copernicus GmbH |
13 |
22015 |
1693 |
American Dairy Science Association |
7 |
9329 |
1333 |
Informa UK Limited |
5 |
13617 |
2723 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
3 |
7838 |
2613 |
IOP Publishing |
3 |
6385 |
2128 |
Pensoft Publishers |
3 |
3379 |
1126 |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |
3 |
8167 |
2722 |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
2 |
2772 |
1386 |
The Royal Society |
2 |
3260 |
1630 |
Aging and Disease |
1 |
815 |
815 |
American Society for Enology and Viticulture |
1 |
854 |
854 |
American Society for Nutrition |
1 |
4760 |
4760 |
American Thoracic Society |
1 |
2764 |
2764 |
BMJ |
1 |
3009 |
3009 |
Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
1 |
1397 |
1397 |
CSIRO Publishing |
1 |
2500 |
2500 |
F1000 Research, Ltd. |
1 |
1001 |
1001 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
785 |
785 |
IGI Global |
1 |
829 |
829 |
Institute of Mathematical Statistics |
1 |
592 |
592 |
Inter-Research Science Center |
1 |
1800 |
1800 |
Juniper Publishers |
1 |
1498 |
1498 |
Microbiology Society |
1 |
2007 |
2007 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
1 |
2916 |
2916 |
PeerJ |
1 |
1053 |
1053 |
Scientific Societies |
1 |
1078 |
1078 |
The Endocrine Society |
1 |
2200 |
2200 |
Wageningen Academic Publishers |
1 |
1100 |
1100 |
Overview
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

07 Feb 2023
The CSC – IT Center for Science has updated its data, providing more APC data for Finnish HEIs.
The CSC is a non-profit government enterprise which provides IT support and services to Finnish academia and research institutes. It operates VIRTA, a centralized service tasked with collecting publication data from HEIs. VIRTA may also optionally collect cost data on OA publishing (APCs and BPCs), this data is made available to OpenAPC where permission was granted by the data providers.
Contact Person for the CSC is Ville Hämäläinen.
Cost data
The updated data set provided by the CSC covers publication fees for 1,776 articles published between 2017 and 2023, replacing the previous CSC data. Total expenditure amounts to 3,050,588€ and the average fee is 1,718€.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
528 |
761670 |
1443 |
Elsevier BV |
325 |
469634 |
1445 |
Springer Nature |
155 |
331280 |
2137 |
Frontiers Media SA |
117 |
241995 |
2068 |
IEEE |
96 |
154364 |
1608 |
Informa UK Limited |
66 |
154726 |
2344 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
54 |
155156 |
2873 |
IOP Publishing |
39 |
76148 |
1953 |
American Physical Society (APS) |
38 |
75542 |
1988 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
29 |
78317 |
2701 |
AIP Publishing |
24 |
57545 |
2398 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
22 |
35709 |
1623 |
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
19 |
18332 |
965 |
BioResources |
18 |
23180 |
1288 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
17 |
36872 |
2169 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
16 |
18540 |
1159 |
SAGE Publications |
15 |
26736 |
1782 |
AAAS |
14 |
44455 |
3175 |
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) |
14 |
31687 |
2263 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
11 |
25539 |
2322 |
Finnish Society of Forest Science |
10 |
8000 |
800 |
Optica Publishing Group |
10 |
18396 |
1840 |
Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
9 |
22025 |
2447 |
Copernicus GmbH |
9 |
14135 |
1571 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
8 |
8398 |
1050 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
7 |
11305 |
1615 |
Audio Engineering Society |
6 |
5878 |
980 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
4 |
13555 |
3389 |
The Royal Society |
4 |
6630 |
1658 |
American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
3 |
5003 |
1668 |
Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library |
3 |
1050 |
350 |
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) |
3 |
8577 |
2859 |
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) |
3 |
5956 |
1985 |
Intellect |
3 |
3357 |
1119 |
IOS Press |
3 |
1500 |
500 |
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. |
3 |
1181 |
394 |
Virtus Interpress |
3 |
1650 |
550 |
American Physiological Society |
2 |
3710 |
1855 |
American Society for Microbiology |
2 |
3556 |
1778 |
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) |
2 |
3369 |
1684 |
Canadian Science Publishing |
2 |
5800 |
2900 |
Institute of Mathematical Statistics |
2 |
1115 |
558 |
International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) |
2 |
740 |
370 |
IWA Publishing |
2 |
3230 |
1615 |
MIS Quarterly |
2 |
4754 |
2377 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
2 |
3555 |
1778 |
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. |
2 |
1007 |
504 |
American Astronomical Society |
1 |
4478 |
4478 |
American Dairy Science Association |
1 |
1560 |
1560 |
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) |
1 |
1220 |
1220 |
American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR) |
1 |
692 |
692 |
American Speech Language Hearing Association |
1 |
1812 |
1812 |
AOSIS |
1 |
742 |
742 |
ASME International |
1 |
2576 |
2576 |
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) |
1 |
1617 |
1617 |
ASTES Journal |
1 |
350 |
350 |
Austin Publishing Group |
1 |
1046 |
1046 |
BMJ |
1 |
2728 |
2728 |
Computers, Materials and Continua (Tech Science Press) |
1 |
1190 |
1190 |
Consulting and Training Center Key |
1 |
100 |
100 |
De Gruyter |
1 |
1190 |
1190 |
e-Century Publishing Corporation |
1 |
1718 |
1718 |
EARLI |
1 |
200 |
200 |
Edinburgh University Press |
1 |
1110 |
1110 |
EDP Sciences |
1 |
400 |
400 |
Emerald |
1 |
2648 |
2648 |
Equinox Publishing |
1 |
1841 |
1841 |
European Optical Society |
1 |
1605 |
1605 |
Forest Products Society |
1 |
1500 |
1500 |
Future Science, LTD |
1 |
1509 |
1509 |
Human Kinetics |
1 |
2000 |
2000 |
IGI Global |
1 |
2300 |
2300 |
Inderscience Publishers |
1 |
2471 |
2471 |
Informing Science Institute |
1 |
66 |
66 |
Inter-Research Science Center |
1 |
2232 |
2232 |
International Journal of Technology |
1 |
480 |
480 |
International Society for Gerontechnology (ISG) |
1 |
600 |
600 |
JVE International Ltd. |
1 |
500 |
500 |
Mary Ann Liebert Inc |
1 |
2777 |
2777 |
MyJove Corporation |
1 |
3751 |
3751 |
NATL TAIWAN UNIV SCI & TECHNOL |
1 |
843 |
843 |
North American Business Press |
1 |
500 |
500 |
PAGEPress Publications |
1 |
416 |
416 |
REF Press |
1 |
430 |
430 |
Research Trends, Ltd. |
1 |
478 |
478 |
Resilience Alliance, Inc. |
1 |
1429 |
1429 |
Science Publishing Group |
1 |
884 |
884 |
Scientific Societies |
1 |
3000 |
3000 |
Society for Neuroscience |
1 |
2493 |
2493 |
sPage.direcT |
1 |
650 |
650 |
Stockholm University Press |
1 |
508 |
508 |
Taiwan Association for Aerosol Research |
1 |
497 |
497 |
Thomas Telford Ltd. |
1 |
2132 |
2132 |
University of Georgia |
1 |
340 |
340 |
University of Pitesti |
1 |
120 |
120 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

06 Feb 2023
The ETH Zurich has updated its expenditures, the latest contribution provides data on Gold APCs for the 2022 period.
The ETH Library provides funding for Open Access publishing and kindly provides data on funded articles to OpenAPC.
Contact Person is Dr. Rainer Rees-Mertins.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 440 articles, total expenditure amounts to 925,855€ and the average fee is 2,104€.
The following table provides an overview:
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Frontiers Media SA |
140 |
296191 |
2116 |
MDPI AG |
86 |
146257 |
1701 |
Copernicus GmbH |
54 |
96244 |
1782 |
Springer Nature |
50 |
103612 |
2072 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
33 |
101114 |
3064 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
26 |
59862 |
2302 |
American Physical Society (APS) |
10 |
26830 |
2683 |
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd |
4 |
12276 |
3069 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
4 |
10246 |
2562 |
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
3 |
11585 |
3862 |
American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
3 |
4962 |
1654 |
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) |
3 |
6042 |
2014 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
3 |
7060 |
2353 |
SAGE Publications |
3 |
2726 |
909 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
3 |
3231 |
1077 |
BMJ |
2 |
4685 |
2342 |
Elsevier BV |
2 |
8617 |
4308 |
EMBO |
2 |
8788 |
4394 |
IOP Publishing |
2 |
5067 |
2534 |
AIP Publishing |
1 |
1535 |
1535 |
Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) |
1 |
1759 |
1759 |
Life Science Alliance, LLC |
1 |
3581 |
3581 |
MIT Press - Journals |
1 |
819 |
819 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
1 |
1904 |
1904 |
Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften |
1 |
485 |
485 |
Wichmann Verlag |
1 |
377 |
377 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the ETH Zurich now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
