Qatar National Library reports new APC expenditures and TA data

The Qatar National Library (مكتبة قطر الوطنية) has updated its cost data, the recent contribution provides APC expenditures for the 2021 to 2022 period and some remaining articles for 2019 and 2020 as well as articles published under transformative agreements from 2018 up to 2022.

Contact Person for the QNL is Sarah Abusaada.

Cost data

The new data set provided by the National Library covers publication fees for 66 articles, total expenditure amounts to 108,738€ and the average fee is 1,648€. Please note that articles published in journals under transformative agreements are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements data set.

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

Publishers

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 22 47278 2149
MDPI AG 15 27943 1863
Elsevier BV 13 14166 1090
SAGE Publications 4 4969 1242
Springer Nature 3 4930 1643
American Chemical Society (ACS) 2 2042 1021
Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) 2 980 490
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 2814 1407
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1622 1622
Informa UK Limited 1 850 850
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 1144 1144

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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Couperin.org provides additional APC data for 6 institutions

The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.

New APC expenditures for 6 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, extending previous data.

Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.

Cost data

The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 234 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 455,372€ and the average fee is 1,946€.

The data originates from the following institutions:

  • AgroParisTech
  • Sorbonne Université
  • Hospices Civils de Lyon
  • Sciences Po Paris
  • Université de Côte d’Azur
  • Université Paris Nanterre

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 54 88788 1644
Springer Nature 33 74002 2242
Frontiers Media SA 27 55120 2041
Wiley-Blackwell 19 38442 2023
Elsevier BV 17 38874 2287
Copernicus GmbH 15 27403 1827
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 14 24699 1764
Oxford University Press (OUP) 7 20780 2969
Informa UK Limited 5 11081 2216
BMJ 4 6586 1646
EDP Sciences 3 900 300
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 3 6356 2119
IOP Publishing 3 5634 1878
JMIR Publications Inc. 3 4247 1416
American Chemical Society (ACS) 2 4783 2391
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2 5246 2623
Optica Publishing Group 2 3379 1689
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 2 5879 2939
The Royal Society 2 2511 1256
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) 1 2011 2011
Aging and Disease 1 3000 3000
AME Publishing Company 1 1390 1390
American Meteorological Society 1 2106 2106
American Physical Society (APS) 1 2114 2114
American Physiological Society 1 3000 3000
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1241 1241
EMBO 1 2925 2925
European Respiratory Society (ERS) 1 2100 2100
IOS Press 1 600 600
Ivyspring International Publisher 1 800 800
Life Science Alliance, LLC 1 2489 2489
Literature Publishers 1 550 550
Remedy Publications, LLC 1 1985 1985
Royal College of Psychiatrists 1 2127 2127
Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften 1 225 225
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 2000 2000

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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New APC data harvested from Bielefeld University

New APC data has been harvested from the institutional repository of Bielefeld University, which had shifted to APC data provision via OAI-PMH.

Bielefeld University Library is in charge of Bielefeld University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.

Contact person is Dirk Pieper.

Cost data

The new data covers publication fees for 156 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 309 957€ and the average fee is 1 987€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 50 89907 1798
Frontiers Media SA 38 82326 2166
Springer Nature 34 75637 2225
Wiley-Blackwell 9 18467 2052
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 6 10553 1759
Cogitatio 4 960 240
Syncsci Publishing Pte., Ltd. 3 1807 602
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2 7865 3932
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1823 1823
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 1 3155 3155
Elsevier BV 1 2249 2249
EMBO 1 4284 4284
Informa UK Limited 1 1999 1999
IOP Publishing 1 1490 1490
Life Science Alliance, LLC 1 2313 2313
Optica Publishing Group 1 2079 2079
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 2011 2011
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 1032 1032

Overview

The overall APC data for Bielefeld 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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