The National Library of Sweden provides APC data for 3 institutions

The National Library of Sweden collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in Sweden.

APC expenditures for 3 different institutions 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 256 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 322 590€ and the average fee is 1 260€.

The data originates from the following institutions:

  • Linnaeus University
  • Luleå University of Technology
  • Uppsala University

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 113 167001 1478
IOP Publishing 29 3667 126
Informa UK Limited 14 19962 1426
IEEE 12 17103 1425
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 11 8225 748
Elsevier BV 8 13957 1745
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 8 11864 1483
Springer Nature 4 7672 1918
American Society for Microbiology 3 7500 2500
Computers, Materials and Continua (Tech Science Press) 3 3187 1062
Frontiers Media SA 3 6505 2168
International Journal of Geomate 3 2160 720
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 3 4552 1517
SAGE Publications 3 4475 1492
Wiley-Blackwell 3 7581 2527
BioResources 2 2137 1069
Blazon Publishing and Media 2 2605 1303
EM International 2 1485 743
Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences 2 600 300
International Information and Engineering Technology Association 2 587 294
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1061 1061
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 1 559 559
Canadian Center of Science and Education 1 343 343
David Publishing Company 1 1253 1253
Emerald 1 2656 2656
Hogrefe Publishing Group 1 2473 2473
Horizon Research Publishing 1 450 450
Innovative Information Science & Technology Research Group (ISYOU) 1 486 486
IOS Press 1 1259 1259
Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 1 1125 1125
Longdom 1 1016 1016
Meddocs open access publisher 1 88 88
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 1674 1674
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 2893 2893
Prime Scholars 1 1726 1726
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 1496 1496
Research Center for Philosophy of Science and Technology 1 269 269
Research Publishing International 1 1997 1997
RJ4All Publications 1 118 118
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 880 880
Scientific Press International Limited 1 85 85
Society of Economic Geologists 1 2123 2123
Society of Wood Science and Technology 1 1231 1231
The Royal Society 1 2042 2042
Universiti Putra Malaysia 1 207 207
Wydawnictwo Naukowe Gabriel Borowski (WNGB) 1 252 252

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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Zurich University of the Arts reports its 2021 APC and BPC expenditures

The Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) has provided both APC and BPC expenditures for the 2021 period.

The ZHdK provides a dedicated Open Access publishing budget to support Gold Open Access publishing.

Contact Person is Esther Zaugg.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 4 articles, total expenditure amounts to 6,952€ and the average fee is 1,738€.

The following table provides an overview of the new 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
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2 3505 1753
Science and Medicine, Inc. 1 1068 1068
Springer Nature 1 2378 2378

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Zurich University of the Arts 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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University of Oulu joins OpenAPC

We welcome the University of Oulu as new contributing institution!

APC expenditures for the 2022 period have now been made available to OpenAPC by the Oulu University Library.

Contact Person is Tiina Jounio.

Cost data

The initial data set covers publication fees for 78 articles published in 2022, total expenditure amounts to 139,902€ and the average fee is 1,794€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 20 34503 1725
Elsevier BV 14 23179 1656
Frontiers Media SA 12 23657 1971
Springer Nature 11 20337 1849
American Chemical Society (ACS) 2 3188 1594
Copernicus GmbH 2 3063 1532
Informa UK Limited 2 3190 1595
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2 2510 1255
The Royal Society 2 3253 1626
BioScientifica 1 2567 2567
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 2238 2238
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 614 614
IWA Publishing 1 2170 2170
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 1819 1819
Pensoft Publishers 1 2604 2604
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1603 1603
SAGE Publications 1 2669 2669
Society for Neuroscience 1 4588 4588
University of Boras, Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT 1 150 150
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 2000 2000

Overview

A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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