CSC updates collected APC data for several Finnish institutions

The CSC – IT Center for Science has updated its data, providing more APC data for Finnish HEIs.

The CSC is a non-profit government enterprise which provides IT support and services to Finnish academia and research institutes. It operates VIRTA, a centralized service tasked with collecting publication data from HEIs. VIRTA may also optionally collect cost data on OA publishing (APCs and BPCs), this data is made available to OpenAPC where permission was granted by the data providers.

Contact Person for the CSC is Ville Hämäläinen.

Cost data

The updated data set provided by the CSC covers publication fees for 1,776 articles published between 2017 and 2023, replacing the previous CSC data. Total expenditure amounts to 3,050,588€ and the average fee is 1,718€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 528 761670 1443
Elsevier BV 325 469634 1445
Springer Nature 155 331280 2137
Frontiers Media SA 117 241995 2068
IEEE 96 154364 1608
Informa UK Limited 66 154726 2344
Wiley-Blackwell 54 155156 2873
IOP Publishing 39 76148 1953
American Physical Society (APS) 38 75542 1988
Oxford University Press (OUP) 29 78317 2701
AIP Publishing 24 57545 2398
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 22 35709 1623
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 19 18332 965
BioResources 18 23180 1288
JMIR Publications Inc. 17 36872 2169
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 16 18540 1159
SAGE Publications 15 26736 1782
AAAS 14 44455 3175
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) 14 31687 2263
American Chemical Society (ACS) 11 25539 2322
Finnish Society of Forest Science 10 8000 800
Optica Publishing Group 10 18396 1840
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 9 22025 2447
Copernicus GmbH 9 14135 1571
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 8 8398 1050
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 7 11305 1615
Audio Engineering Society 6 5878 980
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 4 13555 3389
The Royal Society 4 6630 1658
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 3 5003 1668
Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library 3 1050 350
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 3 8577 2859
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 3 5956 1985
Intellect 3 3357 1119
IOS Press 3 1500 500
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 3 1181 394
Virtus Interpress 3 1650 550
American Physiological Society 2 3710 1855
American Society for Microbiology 2 3556 1778
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2 3369 1684
Canadian Science Publishing 2 5800 2900
Institute of Mathematical Statistics 2 1115 558
International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) 2 740 370
IWA Publishing 2 3230 1615
MIS Quarterly 2 4754 2377
Optical Society of America (OSA) 2 3555 1778
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 2 1007 504
American Astronomical Society 1 4478 4478
American Dairy Science Association 1 1560 1560
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) 1 1220 1220
American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR) 1 692 692
American Speech Language Hearing Association 1 1812 1812
AOSIS 1 742 742
ASME International 1 2576 2576
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1617 1617
ASTES Journal 1 350 350
Austin Publishing Group 1 1046 1046
BMJ 1 2728 2728
Computers, Materials and Continua (Tech Science Press) 1 1190 1190
Consulting and Training Center Key 1 100 100
De Gruyter 1 1190 1190
e-Century Publishing Corporation 1 1718 1718
EARLI 1 200 200
Edinburgh University Press 1 1110 1110
EDP Sciences 1 400 400
Emerald 1 2648 2648
Equinox Publishing 1 1841 1841
European Optical Society 1 1605 1605
Forest Products Society 1 1500 1500
Future Science, LTD 1 1509 1509
Human Kinetics 1 2000 2000
IGI Global 1 2300 2300
Inderscience Publishers 1 2471 2471
Informing Science Institute 1 66 66
Inter-Research Science Center 1 2232 2232
International Journal of Technology 1 480 480
International Society for Gerontechnology (ISG) 1 600 600
JVE International Ltd. 1 500 500
Mary Ann Liebert Inc 1 2777 2777
MyJove Corporation 1 3751 3751
NATL TAIWAN UNIV SCI & TECHNOL 1 843 843
North American Business Press 1 500 500
PAGEPress Publications 1 416 416
REF Press 1 430 430
Research Trends, Ltd. 1 478 478
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 1 1429 1429
Science Publishing Group 1 884 884
Scientific Societies 1 3000 3000
Society for Neuroscience 1 2493 2493
sPage.direcT 1 650 650
Stockholm University Press 1 508 508
Taiwan Association for Aerosol Research 1 497 497
Thomas Telford Ltd. 1 2132 2132
University of Georgia 1 340 340
University of Pitesti 1 120 120

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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