CSIC joins OpenAPC
01 Dec 2023We welcome the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) as a new contributing institution!
CSIC, Spain’s largest public research institution, has kindly decided to join the Open APC initiative and share its expenditures on Open Access publications.
Contact Person is Karina Barros Ferradás.
About the dataset
The initial data set contributed by CSIC contains information on publication fees paid from 2015 to 2023.
Cost data
The data set covers publication fees for 1,122 articles, total expenditure amounts to 2,251,128€ and the average fee is 2,006€. Please note that articles published under transformative agreements are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements data set.
The following tables and plots provide an overview of the reported APC expenditures.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers Media SA | 417 | 918777 | 2203 |
| Springer Nature | 274 | 546940 | 1996 |
| MDPI AG | 247 | 496039 | 2008 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 87 | 159985 | 1839 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 58 | 94050 | 1622 |
| PeerJ | 26 | 26038 | 1001 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 13 | 9298 | 715 |
Overview
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
