18 Jan 2023
ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides more cost data for the 2022 period.
The ZHAW library operates an Open Access publication fund which provides support for Open Access publishing, and kindly provides data on funded articles and books to OpenAPC.
Contact Person is Andrea Moritz.
Cost Data
The new APC data set covers publication fees for 37 articles, total expenditure amounts to 61 382€ and the average fee is 1 659€. The contribution also contains BPC data for 2 OA books which are not shown here.
The following table provides an overview of the new APC data:
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
14 |
22244 |
1589 |
Frontiers Media SA |
10 |
18157 |
1816 |
Springer Nature |
7 |
12984 |
1855 |
SAGE Publications |
2 |
2211 |
1105 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
1 |
1360 |
1360 |
BMJ |
1 |
1878 |
1878 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
1 |
2200 |
2200 |
Palermo University Press |
1 |
348 |
348 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the ZHAW now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

18 Jan 2023
The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 6 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, with three institutions 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 369 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 747,008€ and the average fee is 2,024€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Université de Bordeaux
- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility - ESRF
- INRIA
- Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail - ANSES (new)
- École des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique - EHESP (new)
- Université Paris-Cité (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 |
91 |
144364 |
1586 |
Frontiers Media SA |
61 |
134913 |
2212 |
Springer Nature |
53 |
118914 |
2244 |
Elsevier BV |
38 |
85513 |
2250 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
30 |
54272 |
1809 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
14 |
35262 |
2519 |
Informa UK Limited |
8 |
15585 |
1948 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
8 |
25857 |
3232 |
BMJ |
7 |
15302 |
2186 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
6 |
12453 |
2075 |
Optica Publishing Group |
6 |
15778 |
2630 |
American Society for Microbiology |
4 |
7336 |
1834 |
AAAS |
2 |
9000 |
4500 |
American Medical Association (AMA) |
2 |
4995 |
2498 |
Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
2 |
3461 |
1731 |
Fortune Journals |
2 |
1428 |
714 |
IEEE |
2 |
3503 |
1752 |
Open Access Text Pvt, Ltd. |
2 |
3671 |
1835 |
Open Library of the Humanities |
2 |
863 |
432 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
2 |
7742 |
3871 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
2 |
1332 |
666 |
SAGE Publications |
2 |
5573 |
2787 |
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. |
2 |
721 |
361 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
2 |
4380 |
2190 |
Acta Dermato-Venereologica |
1 |
1450 |
1450 |
AIP Publishing |
1 |
2338 |
2338 |
ALTEX Edition |
1 |
2000 |
2000 |
American Physical Society (APS) |
1 |
3336 |
3336 |
American Society of Hematology |
1 |
3105 |
3105 |
Briefland |
1 |
874 |
874 |
Copernicus GmbH |
1 |
1309 |
1309 |
EDP Sciences |
1 |
1080 |
1080 |
eSciPub LLC |
1 |
262 |
262 |
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) |
1 |
1602 |
1602 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
572 |
572 |
Impact Journals, LLC |
1 |
3400 |
3400 |
Inderscience Publishers |
1 |
2000 |
2000 |
Insight Medical Publishing |
1 |
500 |
500 |
IOP Publishing |
1 |
3522 |
3522 |
MIT Press - Journals |
1 |
1606 |
1606 |
MyJove Corporation |
1 |
4191 |
4191 |
PeerJ |
1 |
1042 |
1042 |
Schweizerbart |
1 |
600 |
600 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

13 Jan 2023
New APC data has been harvested from the institutional repository of Saarland University.
The Saarland University and State Library (SULB) decided to make data on APC expenditures directly available in their institutional repository, where it can be harvested by OpenAPC on a regular basis via OAI-PMH.
The SULB is also in charge of the central publication fund at Saarland University, which receives support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publication Funding Programme.
Contact person is Ulrich Herb.
Cost data
The new data covers publication fees for 19 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 30,952€ and the average fee is 1,629€.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
7 |
11894 |
1699 |
Frontiers Media SA |
5 |
7467 |
1494 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
3 |
5489 |
1830 |
Elsevier BV |
1 |
1357 |
1357 |
Informa UK Limited |
1 |
1999 |
1999 |
Japanese Association for Laboratory Animal Science |
1 |
812 |
812 |
Springer Nature |
1 |
1934 |
1934 |
Overview
The overall APC data for Saarland University now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
