Virginia Tech joins OpenAPC


We welcome the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University as new contributing institution!

Contact person is Philip Young.

About the dataset

The initial dataset contributed by Virginia Tech contains information on publication fees paid ifrom 2012 to 2016.

Cost Data

The data covers publication fees for 167 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 185 902€ and the average fee is 1 113€.

The following table and plots show the payments the university has made to publishers from 2012 to 2016.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 35 38902 1111
Springer Nature 35 47770 1365
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 14 13737 981
Springer Science + Business Media 13 20174 1552
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 11 1355 123
MDPI AG 10 10828 1083
Wiley-Blackwell 10 13399 1340
International Medical Publisher (Fundacion de Neurociencias) 7 1837 262
Optical Society of America (OSA) 5 7085 1417
Frontiers Media SA 4 5434 1359
Informa UK Limited 3 3841 1280
Oxford University Press (OUP) 3 4784 1595
American Dairy Science Association 2 2066 1033
SAGE Publications 2 991 496
STEM Education and Research Institute 2 664 332
AIP Publishing 1 1402 1402
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 1 1194 1194
Copernicus GmbH 1 845 845
Crop Science Society of America 1 1650 1650
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 1 1353 1353
Elsevier BV 1 225 225
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 1318 1318
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 1443 1443
OMICS Publishing Group 1 1380 1380
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 1 886 886
The Company of Biologists 1 1341 1341

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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