Lib4RI provides APC data for 2022


Lib4RI (Library for the Research Institutes within the ETH Domain) collects data on APC expenditures from four Swiss institutes: Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology), Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology), PSI (Paul Scherrer Institute) and WSL (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research).

APC expenditures for the 2023 period have now been made available to OpenAPC.

Contact person is Jochen Bihn.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 100 articles published at Empa, Eawag, WSL and PSI in 2023. Total expenditure amounts to 202,942€ and the average fee is 2,029€. The following tables and plots provide more details.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 27 50496 1870
Frontiers Media SA 25 62109 2484
Copernicus GmbH 18 28892 1605
Springer Nature 8 19036 2379
Wiley-Blackwell 5 11738 2348
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 4 7695 1924
Optica Publishing Group 3 6454 2151
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2 4236 2118
American Physical Society (APS) 1 2702 2702
Elsevier BV 1 786 786
IEEE 1 2108 2108
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1 491 491
Pensoft Publishers 1 1357 1357
REABIC 1 1062 1062
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 2287 2287
University of California Press 1 1494 1494

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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