FWF reports data on APCs, BPCs and transformative agreements for 2020

The FWF (Austrian Science fund) has updated its data on APC and BPC expenditures as well as articles published under transformative agreements.

Contact person is Katharina Rieck.

Cost Data

The new data set covers APCs for 682 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 1,302,069€ and the average fee is 1,909€. In 2014, the FWF introduced price caps for gold OA (EUR 2500) and for hybrid OA (EUR 1500). Whenever costs exceed those caps, FWF funded authors can use other sources to cover the additional costs. In order to avoid distortions regarding mean values in the OpenAPC data set the FWF set does not include articles where these caps apply and where the additional costs were paid by other sources.

The following tables and plots provide an overview of the reported APC expenditures. Reported cost data on BPCs is not listed here, but they can be inspected in the according BPC treemap section.

Data on transformative agreements can be found either in the OpenAPC TA Treemap (articles only) or the Combined Treemap (includes calculated cost data for agreements).

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 266 386070 1451
Frontiers Media SA 130 318128 2447
Springer Nature 96 200942 2093
Elsevier BV 51 135535 2658
IOP Publishing 20 39262 1963
Oxford University Press (OUP) 12 29130 2428
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 10 19235 1923
Informa UK Limited 9 9771 1086
Copernicus GmbH 8 13644 1706
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 8 12905 1613
Wiley-Blackwell 8 19096 2387
American Physical Society (APS) 5 8251 1650
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 5 8455 1691
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) 4 7687 1922
American Chemical Society (ACS) 3 6971 2324
Optical Society of America (OSA) 3 6462 2154
Pensoft Publishers 3 2814 938
The Royal Society 3 5472 1824
AIP Publishing 2 5062 2531
American Society for Microbiology 2 3263 1632
American Society of Hematology 2 6592 3296
Cell Physiol Biochem Press GmbH and Co KG 2 3570 1785
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2 3618 1809
Ivyspring International Publisher 2 3941 1970
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2 6413 3206
Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) 2 1008 504
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2 4380 2190
Aging and Disease 1 1823 1823
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 1 4337 4337
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 1391 1391
American Meteorological Society 1 1171 1171
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 1731 1731
Herpetologists League 1 1825 1825
International Global Health Society 1 1089 1089
Norwegian Polar Institute 1 948 948
Open Access Text Pvt, Ltd. 1 2981 2981
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 669 669
PeerJ 1 893 893
Philosophy Documentation Center 1 720 720
Portland Press Ltd. 1 1144 1144
Royal College of Psychiatrists 1 3438 3438
Scientific Societies 1 1578 1578
Society for Neuroscience 1 2388 2388
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng 1 1164 1164
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 1044 1044
University of Wisconsin Press 1 1781 1781
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt 1 2276 2276

Overview

With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for the FWF 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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