Lib4RI joins OpenAPC

We welcome Lib4RI (Library for the Research Institutes within the ETH Domain) as new contributing institution!

Lib4RI’s initial contribution provides APC data for two institutes: Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology) and Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology).

Contact persons are Jochen Bihn and Sarah Last.

Cost data

The initial data set covers publication fees for 40 articles published at Empa and Eawag in 2019. Total expenditure amounts to 62,487€ and the average fee is 1,562€. The following tables and plots provide more details.

Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 10 11868 1187
Copernicus GmbH 3 5251 1750
Springer Nature 3 5547 1849
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2 1842 921
AAAS 1 4329 4329
ALTEX Edition 1 2154 2154
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 721 721
Elsevier BV 1 560 560
Göller Verlag GmbH 1 1400 1400
IEEE 1 1599 1599
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1924 1924

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 5 8237 1647
Frontiers Media SA 2 4223 2112
MDPI AG 2 3292 1646
ALTEX Edition 1 2154 2154
Copernicus GmbH 1 2003 2003
IEEE 1 1683 1683
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 1 1130 1130
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 921 921
Wiley-Blackwell 1 1648 1648

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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