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 3,839 articles published between 2013 and 2024, replacing the previous CSC data. Total expenditure amounts to 7,285,099€ and the average fee is 1,898€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 917 1433423 1563
Elsevier BV 542 863252 1593
Springer Nature 474 1139411 2404
Frontiers Media SA 432 912875 2113
Informa UK Limited 199 438399 2203
IEEE 160 241485 1509
Wiley-Blackwell 112 305189 2725
Copernicus GmbH 73 123638 1694
American Physical Society (APS) 65 145463 2238
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 60 112258 1871
Oxford University Press (OUP) 57 153836 2699
IOP Publishing 56 109778 1960
SAGE Publications 42 62239 1482
American Chemical Society (ACS) 35 109031 3115
AIP Publishing 34 84760 2493
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 33 53245 1613
JMIR Publications Inc. 32 71795 2244
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 31 72294 2332
AAAS 23 76908 3344
BMJ 22 50900 2314
Optica Publishing Group 22 42858 1948
BioResources 21 27287 1299
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 20 19034 952
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 18 32148 1786
The Royal Society 18 32421 1801
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) 17 37651 2215
American Society for Microbiology 17 43535 2561
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 17 20318 1195
Finnish Society of Forest Science 16 14200 888
Audio Engineering Society 12 11765 980
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 10 33385 3338
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 7 14763 2109
American Astronomical Society 6 18360 3060
Canadian Science Publishing 6 20894 3482
IOS Press 6 6820 1137
Pensoft Publishers 6 7003 1167
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 6 18040 3007
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 6 4483 747
Brill 5 9641 1928
International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) 5 2650 530
Mary Ann Liebert Inc 5 17764 3553
Stockholm University Press 5 3143 629
American Physiological Society 4 12385 3096
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 4 7243 1811
Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library 4 1315 329
EDP Sciences 4 3955 989
Human Kinetics 4 9615 2404
IWA Publishing 4 7431 1858
MyJove Corporation 4 13707 3427
Optical Society of America (OSA) 4 7182 1796
Virtus Interpress 4 2130 532
American Dairy Science Association 3 5465 1822
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 3 5215 1738
Bristol University Press 3 5274 1758
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 3 9697 3232
Emerald 3 7793 2598
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 3 8577 2859
Institute of Mathematical Statistics 3 1765 588
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 3 5968 1989
Intellect 3 4085 1362
MIT Press - Journals 3 4090 1363
Open Access Publishing Group 3 240 80
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 3 1181 394
Termedia Sp. z.o.o. 3 1200 400
The Company of Biologists 3 11326 3775
American Society for Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) 2 3877 1938
American Vacuum Society 2 4036 2018
AOSIS 2 1470 735
BioScientifica 2 4664 2332
Cappelen Damm AS - Cappelen Damm Akademisk 2 1220 610
Cogitatio 2 1850 925
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 2 6748 3374
EARLI 2 400 200
Inderscience Publishers 2 4471 2236
Informing Science Institute 2 130 65
Inter-Research Science Center 2 4732 2366
lnternational Electronic Journal of Elementary Education 2 661 330
MIS Quarterly 2 7355 3678
Research Trends, Ltd. 2 873 436
Science Publishing Group 2 2228 1114
Society for Neuroscience 2 7081 3540
sPage.direcT 2 1504 752
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng 2 3478 1739
University of California Press 2 2413 1206
University of Uludag 2 3650 1825
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 1 4707 4707
American Medical Association (AMA) 1 2875 2875
American Psychological Association (APA) 1 2731 2731
American Society for Clinical Investigation 1 5010 5010
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) 1 1220 1220
American Society of Hematology 1 2904 2904
American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR) 1 692 692
American Speech Language Hearing Association 1 1812 1812
ASME International 1 2576 2576
ASTES Journal 1 350 350
Austin Publishing Group 1 1046 1046
Bastas Publications 1 620 620
Berghahn Books 1 1200 1200
Boffin Access 1 1200 1200
CAD Solutions, LLC 1 300 300
Center for Transportation Studies 1 951 951
Common Ground Research Networks 1 233 233
Computers, Materials and Continua (Tech Science Press) 1 1190 1190
Consulting and Training Center Key 1 100 100
Daugavpils University 1 50 50
De Gruyter 1 1190 1190
e-Century Publishing Corporation 1 1718 1718
Edinburgh University Press 1 1110 1110
Equinox Publishing 1 1841 1841
F1000 Research, Ltd. 1 1275 1275
Forest Products Society 1 1500 1500
Future Science, LTD 1 1509 1509
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 2440 2440
Hipatia Press 1 600 600
IGI Global 1 2300 2300
International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures 1 400 400
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
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 2184 2184
ISEKI Food Association 1 400 400
JVE International Ltd. 1 500 500
Krakow Polish Physiological Society 1 550 550
Lexxion Verlag 1 1488 1488
MedCrave Group, LLC 1 703 703
Medwin Publishers 1 1216 1216
Mineralogical Society 1 2643 2643
MIT Press 1 1492 1492
Modestum Limited 1 914 914
Mohr Siebeck 1 902 902
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology 1 843 843
Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine 1 820 820
North American Business Press 1 500 500
Pacini Editore 1 300 300
PAGEPress Publications 1 416 416
PeerJ 1 1365 1365
Philosophy Documentation Center 1 1197 1197
Polish Academy of Sciences Chancellery 1 276 276
Project MUSE 1 2842 2842
REF Press 1 430 430
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 1 1429 1429
Rockefeller University Press 1 2352 2352
Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS 1 1658 1658
Scholar Publishing 1 179 179
Schweizerbart 1 1490 1490
Scientific Press International Limited 1 200 200
Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM) 1 2205 2205
Taiwan Association for Aerosol Research 1 497 497
The Endocrine Society 1 1765 1765
The Grassroots Institute 1 277 277
Thomas Telford Ltd. 1 2132 2132
University of Boras, Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT 1 150 150
University of Georgia 1 340 340
University of Pitesti 1 120 120
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University 1 702 702
World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS) 1 620 620

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 year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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