Jisc collections data included into OpenAPC


Jisc Collections has been gathering and releasing data on APC payments made by UK higher education institutions (HEIs).

One of these datasets (aggregated APC data for the 2015 period) has now been included into OpenAPC.

Cost data

The ingested data covers publication fees for 6,002 articles published by UK institutions. Total expenditure amounts to 14 520 664€ and the average fee is 2 419€.

The following table and plots show a breakdown of the payments.

Overview

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Elsevier BV 1384 3857676 2787
Springer Nature 940 2342742 2492
Wiley-Blackwell 710 1880345 2648
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 485 809150 1668
Oxford University Press (OUP) 314 882302 2810
American Chemical Society (ACS) 244 697615 2859
BMJ 209 495066 2369
Frontiers Media SA 176 243048 1381
Informa UK Limited 160 232681 1454
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 134 284557 2124
The Royal Society 107 243187 2273
IOP Publishing 94 217426 2313
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 87 136016 1563
SAGE Publications 83 81829 986
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 58 164168 2830
Copernicus GmbH 57 78835 1383
American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB) 50 104526 2091
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 48 196078 4085
Society for Neuroscience 48 150424 3134
The Company of Biologists 40 133063 3327
American Society for Microbiology 37 100817 2725
MDPI AG 34 50352 1481
American Physical Society (APS) 34 70976 2088
AIP Publishing 33 71073 2154
Optical Society of America (OSA) 25 42739 1710
The American Association of Immunologists 19 59862 3151
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 15 26987 1799
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 15 14954 997
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 15 35412 2361
EMBO 14 49014 3501
American Meteorological Society 12 17189 1432
Impact Journals, LLC 12 31409 2617
Springer Science + Business Media 11 29907 2719
American Psychological Association (APA) 11 43335 3940
Microbiology Society 11 27993 2545
Portland Press Ltd. 11 22968 2088
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 11 2499 227
Informa Healthcare 10 24117 2412
American Society for Nutrition 9 48778 5420
American Society of Hematology 9 19680 2187
American Physiological Society 8 16856 2107
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 8 18199 2275
Geological Society of London 8 19788 2474
JMIR Publications Inc. 8 13046 1631
Mary Ann Liebert Inc 8 27193 3399
PeerJ 8 2998 375
Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM) 8 16612 2077
Royal College of Psychiatrists 7 25369 3624
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 7 19623 2803
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 7 9814 1402
The Endocrine Society 7 20944 2992
FASEB 6 15462 2577
Inter-Research Science Center 6 9041 1507
S. Karger AG 6 16798 2800
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 5 7796 1559
BioScientifica 5 13680 2736
Future Medicine Ltd 5 14061 2812
Geological Society of America 5 12105 2421
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng 5 4031 806
MyJove Corporation 4 13263 3316
Spandidos Publications 4 5043 1261
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt 4 5732 1433
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 3 7450 2483
American Society for Clinical Investigation 3 13014 4338
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 3 5706 1902
British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery 3 4797 1599
British Institute of Radiology 3 8519 2840
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 3 6637 2212
Emerald 3 4938 1646
F1000 Research, Ltd. 3 2662 887
The Policy Press 3 6410 2137
University of Chicago Press 3 4697 1566
Johns Hopkins University Press 2 6208 3104
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) 2 5175 2588
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2 10887 5443
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2 4506 2253
Audio Engineering Society 2 1965 982
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. 2 5535 2768
Cogitatio 2 1203 601
Future Science, LTD 2 5062 2531
Genetics Society of America 2 3913 1957
GeoScienceWorld 2 6086 3043
Mineralogical Society 2 4136 2068
MIT Press - Journals 2 2667 1334
Rockefeller University Press 2 8412 4206
Schattauer GmbH 2 3212 1606
Thomas Telford Ltd. 2 4521 2261
Textrum, Ltd. 1 1489 1489
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) 1 2515 2515
American Society of Nephrology (ASN) 1 3230 3230
American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) 1 2303 2303
Antiquity Publications 1 1654 1654
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 1 1417 1417
Botanical Society of America 1 834 834
Canadian Science Publishing 1 3326 3326
Co-Action Publishing 1 1949 1949
Cognizant Electronic Publishing 1 1361 1361
CSIRO Publishing 1 2909 2909
Edinburgh University Global Health Society 1 965 965
EDP Sciences 1 623 623
European Respiratory Society (ERS) 1 3308 3308
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) 1 1864 1864
Institute of Mathematical Statistics 1 608 608
International AIDS Society 1 2473 2473
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1 2059 2059
Maney Publishing 1 689 689
Open Medscience Limited 1 579 579
Pensoft Publishers 1 4468 4468
Radiation Research Society 1 4617 4617
Society for Sedimentary Geology 1 2933 2933
The Science and Information Organization 1 234 234
Thieme Publishing Group 1 3120 3120
UPV/EHU Press 1 1361 1361
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 1207 1207

With the new data included, OpenAPC has now ingested 10,553 articles from Jisc collections, covering 41 institutions and a total sum of 23 893 135€:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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