22 Aug 2022
The National Library of Sweden collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in Sweden.
APC expenditures for the Linköping University 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 125 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 221 139€ and the average fee is 1 769€.
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 |
57 |
85489 |
1500 |
IEEE |
6 |
8256 |
1376 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
6 |
13568 |
2261 |
Frontiers Media SA |
5 |
10944 |
2189 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
5 |
7348 |
1470 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
5 |
8781 |
1756 |
Informa UK Limited |
4 |
5821 |
1455 |
AAAS |
3 |
11316 |
3772 |
Elsevier BV |
3 |
7811 |
2604 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
3 |
11017 |
3672 |
BMJ |
2 |
3499 |
1750 |
Mary Ann Liebert Inc |
2 |
5411 |
2705 |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |
2 |
6642 |
3321 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
2 |
2332 |
1166 |
SAGE Publications |
2 |
1494 |
747 |
Springer Nature |
2 |
3590 |
1795 |
Acta Dermato-Venereologica |
1 |
1633 |
1633 |
American Physical Society (APS) |
1 |
1829 |
1829 |
Berghahn Books |
1 |
1028 |
1028 |
Cappelen Damm AS - Cappelen Damm Akademisk |
1 |
1213 |
1213 |
Emerald |
1 |
2694 |
2694 |
Fortune Journals |
1 |
251 |
251 |
Impact Journals, LLC |
1 |
3787 |
3787 |
John Benjamins Publishing Company |
1 |
1805 |
1805 |
Optica Publishing Group |
1 |
1876 |
1876 |
Rockefeller University Press |
1 |
4208 |
4208 |
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. |
1 |
407 |
407 |
Society for Neuroscience |
1 |
1818 |
1818 |
Spandidos Publications |
1 |
885 |
885 |
The Royal Society |
1 |
1071 |
1071 |
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co, KG |
1 |
595 |
595 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
1 |
2721 |
2721 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

19 Aug 2022
The Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin has updated its APC expenditures, providing data on articles published under the German DEAL agreement in the 2021 period.
The Charité Medical Library is in charge of the institution’s Open Access Publication Funds,
which is receiving support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.
Contact Person is Jenny Delasalle.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 230 articles published in Springer Nature and Wiley Gold OA journals, total expenditure amounts to 499,335€ and the average fee is 2,171€. Please note that articles published in hybrid journals under the DEAL agreement are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements data set.
The following table provide an overwiew:
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Springer Nature |
182 |
378379 |
2079 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
46 |
112388 |
2443 |
EMBO |
2 |
8568 |
4284 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Charité now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

17 Aug 2022
The University of Göttingen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period.
The Göttingen State and University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.
Contact persons are Daniel Beucke and Sabine Witt.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 435 articles, total expenditure amounts to 809 638€ and the average fee is 1 861€.
The following table shows the payments the SUB Göttingen has made to publishers in 2021.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
168 |
291834 |
1737 |
Springer Nature |
83 |
179087 |
2158 |
Frontiers Media SA |
66 |
128431 |
1946 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
22 |
39079 |
1776 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
21 |
42738 |
2035 |
Elsevier BV |
20 |
40401 |
2020 |
Copernicus GmbH |
7 |
11892 |
1699 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
5 |
10716 |
2143 |
PeerJ |
4 |
4966 |
1241 |
American Society for Microbiology |
3 |
3093 |
1031 |
BMJ |
3 |
6794 |
2265 |
Informa UK Limited |
3 |
3148 |
1049 |
American Medical Association (AMA) |
2 |
6097 |
3048 |
American Physical Society (APS) |
2 |
3292 |
1646 |
Cogitatio |
2 |
1714 |
857 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
2 |
3688 |
1844 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
2 |
4574 |
2287 |
Pensoft Publishers |
2 |
1457 |
729 |
SAGE Publications |
2 |
1404 |
702 |
Sercrisma International |
2 |
3808 |
1904 |
AME Publishing Company |
1 |
1373 |
1373 |
EMBO |
1 |
4284 |
4284 |
F1000 Research, Ltd. |
1 |
1326 |
1326 |
Finnish Society of Forest Science |
1 |
952 |
952 |
Fortune Journals |
1 |
888 |
888 |
International Scientific Information, Inc. |
1 |
1010 |
1010 |
IOP Publishing |
1 |
1490 |
1490 |
Ivyspring International Publisher |
1 |
2293 |
2293 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
1 |
1646 |
1646 |
Resilience Alliance, Inc. |
1 |
1153 |
1153 |
S. Karger AG |
1 |
1871 |
1871 |
Universidad de Alicante Servicio de Publicaciones |
1 |
232 |
232 |
University of California Press |
1 |
1004 |
1004 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
1 |
1904 |
1904 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Göttingen now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
