University of Helsinki reports 2023 APC expenditures

The University of Helsinki has reported new APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides cost data for 2023.

Helsinki University Library operates an Open Access publication fund which provides support for Open Access publishing. The data originates both from this fund and from cost data collected from university departments.

Contact Person is Marjo Kuusela.

Cost Data

The new data set covers publication fees for 615 articles, total expenditure amounts to 1,333,673€ and the average fee is 2,169€.

The following table shows the payments the University of Helsinki has reported, summarized by publishers (including taxes and discounts).

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 141 279626 1983
Springer Nature 107 265335 2480
MDPI AG 104 196305 1888
Elsevier BV 59 134943 2287
Copernicus GmbH 25 42250 1690
Informa UK Limited 23 50742 2206
Oxford University Press (OUP) 20 59568 2978
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 16 34994 2187
BMJ 9 23706 2634
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 7 14895 2128
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 7 29529 4218
SAGE Publications 7 8968 1281
American Society for Microbiology 5 15131 3026
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 5 2974 595
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 5 5038 1008
Wiley-Blackwell 5 15473 3095
American Astronomical Society 4 9768 2442
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 3 10558 3519
American Medical Association (AMA) 3 8330 2777
PeerJ 3 4365 1455
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 2 8842 4421
American Physical Society (APS) 2 5770 2885
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2 4626 2313
Iris Publishers 2 3157 1578
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 2 7213 3606
Pensoft Publishers 2 2155 1078
S. Karger AG 2 5842 2921
Society for Neuroscience 2 5738 2869
The Company of Biologists 2 6526 3263
The Royal Society 2 3406 1703
AIP Publishing 1 3982 3982
AME Publishing Company 1 1660 1660
American Dairy Science Association 1 1458 1458
American Psychological Association (APA) 1 3515 3515
American Society for Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) 1 1382 1382
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 1 3620 3620
American Society of Hematology 1 4560 4560
American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) 1 1473 1473
Anticancer Research USA Inc. 1 748 748
Aquatic Mammals Journal 1 1347 1347
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1673 1673
BioScientifica 1 1225 1225
Brill 1 800 800
Bristol University Press 1 1690 1690
Canadian Science Publishing 1 2989 2989
Duke University Press 1 890 890
EDP Sciences 1 1200 1200
Estonian Academy Publishers 1 250 250
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) 1 3002 3002
Finnish Society of Forest Science 1 900 900
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 1852 1852
IOP Publishing 1 1633 1633
IOS Press 1 2150 2150
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 1880 1880
Life Science Alliance, LLC 1 3559 3559
Microbiology Society 1 2520 2520
MIT Press - Journals 1 2059 2059
Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine 1 1635 1635
Optica Publishing Group 1 1347 1347
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 1009 1009
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health 1 2750 2750
Science and Education Publishing 1 485 485
Scientific Societies 1 2864 2864
SNF Swedish Nutrition Foundation 1 2265 2265
Stockholm University Press 1 681 681
Verlag Barbara Budrich GmbH 1 416 416
Water Alternatives Association 1 434 434

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Helsinki 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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