University of Basel joins OpenAPC

We welcome the University of Basel as new contributing institution!

The University Basel Open Access Publication Fund provides funding for Open Access publishing, an initial data set on funded articles has kindly been provided to OpenAPC.

Contact Person is Andreas Schmid.

Cost data

The initial data set covers publication fees for 87 articles published in 2020, total expenditure amounts to 154,951€ and the average fee is 1,781€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 20 28302 1415
Frontiers Media SA 19 42825 2254
Springer Nature 19 35519 1869
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 9 15564 1729
BMJ 4 4752 1188
Elsevier BV 2 5956 2978
Informa UK Limited 2 2865 1432
JMIR Publications Inc. 2 3630 1815
Optical Society of America (OSA) 2 3538 1769
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 2 2768 1384
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 5280 2640
F1000 Research, Ltd. 1 856 856
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1362 1362
PAGEPress Publications 1 750 750
SAGE Publications 1 984 984

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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