CSC updates collected APC data for several Finnish institutions
18 Jul 2023The 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 1,989 articles published between 2017 and 2023, replacing the previous CSC data. Total expenditure amounts to 3,472,720€ and the average fee is 1,746€.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 568 | 832676 | 1466 |
| Elsevier BV | 341 | 490547 | 1439 |
| Springer Nature | 181 | 392037 | 2166 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 149 | 310081 | 2081 |
| IEEE | 101 | 162898 | 1613 |
| Informa UK Limited | 79 | 187583 | 2374 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 63 | 179751 | 2853 |
| IOP Publishing | 42 | 81858 | 1949 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 38 | 77125 | 2030 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 28 | 74838 | 2673 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 26 | 43601 | 1677 |
| AIP Publishing | 25 | 59848 | 2394 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 23 | 35015 | 1522 |
| Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | 19 | 18332 | 965 |
| BioResources | 19 | 24485 | 1289 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 19 | 41836 | 2202 |
| SAGE Publications | 19 | 38075 | 2004 |
| AAAS | 15 | 47341 | 3156 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | 14 | 31687 | 2263 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 13 | 32977 | 2537 |
| Finnish Society of Forest Science | 13 | 10700 | 823 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 12 | 28476 | 2373 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 12 | 22797 | 1900 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 11 | 11791 | 1072 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 9 | 14135 | 1571 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 8 | 13695 | 1712 |
| Audio Engineering Society | 6 | 5878 | 980 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 5 | 9173 | 1835 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 5 | 16017 | 3203 |
| The Royal Society | 5 | 8181 | 1636 |
| American Physiological Society | 4 | 12385 | 3096 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 4 | 10037 | 2509 |
| Intellect | 4 | 4716 | 1179 |
| Stockholm University Press | 4 | 2424 | 606 |
| Virtus Interpress | 4 | 2130 | 532 |
| Canadian Science Publishing | 3 | 10149 | 3383 |
| Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library | 3 | 1050 | 350 |
| EDP Sciences | 3 | 2105 | 702 |
| Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) | 3 | 8577 | 2859 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 3 | 5956 | 1985 |
| IOS Press | 3 | 1500 | 500 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 3 | 1181 | 394 |
| Termedia Sp. z.o.o. | 3 | 1200 | 400 |
| American Astronomical Society | 2 | 6949 | 3474 |
| American Dairy Science Association | 2 | 4620 | 2310 |
| American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) | 2 | 3369 | 1684 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 2 | 3467 | 1734 |
| Human Kinetics | 2 | 3926 | 1963 |
| Institute of Mathematical Statistics | 2 | 1115 | 558 |
| International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) | 2 | 740 | 370 |
| IWA Publishing | 2 | 3230 | 1615 |
| lnternational Electronic Journal of Elementary Education | 2 | 661 | 330 |
| MIS Quarterly | 2 | 4754 | 2377 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 2 | 2592 | 1296 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 2 | 3555 | 1778 |
| Research Trends, Ltd. | 2 | 873 | 436 |
| sPage.direcT | 2 | 1504 | 752 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 2 | 1007 | 504 |
| 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 |
| American Vacuum Society | 1 | 2025 | 2025 |
| AOSIS | 1 | 742 | 742 |
| ASME International | 1 | 2576 | 2576 |
| ASTES Journal | 1 | 350 | 350 |
| Austin Publishing Group | 1 | 1046 | 1046 |
| BMJ | 1 | 2728 | 2728 |
| Center for Transportation Studies | 1 | 951 | 951 |
| 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 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 3504 | 3504 |
| Emerald | 1 | 2648 | 2648 |
| Equinox Publishing | 1 | 1841 | 1841 |
| Forest Products Society | 1 | 1500 | 1500 |
| Future Science, LTD | 1 | 1509 | 1509 |
| Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences | 1 | 300 | 300 |
| 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 |
| International Society of Musculoskeletal and Neuronal Interactions | 1 | 250 | 250 |
| JVE International Ltd. | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 1 | 2777 | 2777 |
| Medwin Publishers | 1 | 1216 | 1216 |
| MyJove Corporation | 1 | 3751 | 3751 |
| National Taiwan University of Science and Technology | 1 | 843 | 843 |
| North American Business Press | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 416 | 416 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 | 2487 | 2487 |
| REF Press | 1 | 430 | 430 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 1429 | 1429 |
| Science Publishing Group | 1 | 884 | 884 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 2493 | 2493 |
| Taiwan Association for Aerosol Research | 1 | 497 | 497 |
| Thomas Telford Ltd. | 1 | 2132 | 2132 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 1016 | 1016 |
| University of Georgia | 1 | 340 | 340 |
| University of Uludag | 1 | 1750 | 1750 |
| Vilnius Gediminas Technical University | 1 | 702 | 702 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
