Today we are very happy to announce our first international contribution: The FWF, Austria’s largest research funding organisation, has decided to join the Open APC initiative and share its expenditures for Open Access publications.
Contact person is Katharina Rieck.
About the dataset
The initial dataset contributed by the FWF contains information on publication fees paid in the years 2013, 2014 and 2015.
Cost Data
The dataset covers publication fees for 3,302 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 7 167 558€ and the average fee is 2 171€.
The following table shows the payments the FWF has made to publishers (including taxes and discounts).
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elsevier BV | 854 | 2013391 | 2358 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 419 | 1154920 | 2756 |
| Springer Science + Business Media | 371 | 868929 | 2342 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 335 | 841097 | 2511 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 221 | 271488 | 1228 |
| Nature Publishing Group | 112 | 304595 | 2720 |
| IOP Publishing | 104 | 196197 | 1887 |
| Informa UK Limited | 88 | 161552 | 1836 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 83 | 213311 | 2570 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 79 | 93237 | 1180 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 49 | 52405 | 1069 |
| MDPI AG | 44 | 53011 | 1205 |
| AIP Publishing | 39 | 66479 | 1705 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 38 | 54037 | 1422 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 35 | 58680 | 1677 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 29 | 39084 | 1348 |
| American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB) | 28 | 46253 | 1652 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 24 | 43367 | 1807 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 21 | 31422 | 1496 |
| SAGE Publications | 17 | 31318 | 1842 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 17 | 14862 | 874 |
| The Company of Biologists | 14 | 36535 | 2610 |
| The Royal Society | 13 | 29199 | 2246 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 13 | 25531 | 1964 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 10 | 14592 | 1459 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 10 | 12121 | 1212 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 9 | 18418 | 2046 |
| American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) | 9 | 10803 | 1200 |
| American Meteorological Society | 9 | 16991 | 1888 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 8 | 20684 | 2586 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 8 | 19472 | 2434 |
| EMBO | 8 | 24047 | 3006 |
| Portland Press Ltd. | 7 | 18174 | 2596 |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press | 7 | 13154 | 1879 |
| Brill Academic Publishers | 7 | 15079 | 2154 |
| S. Karger AG | 6 | 15626 | 2604 |
| Magnolia Press | 6 | 2580 | 430 |
| IWA Publishing | 6 | 15750 | 2625 |
| Inter-Research Science Center | 6 | 7680 | 1280 |
| Informa Healthcare | 6 | 17881 | 2980 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 6 | 15832 | 2639 |
| American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) | 6 | 10518 | 1753 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 5 | 2145 | 429 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 5 | 9642 | 1928 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 4 | 2074 | 518 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 4 | 6993 | 1748 |
| Genetics Society of America | 4 | 4657 | 1164 |
| Future Science, LTD | 4 | 9411 | 2353 |
| Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. | 4 | 8961 | 2240 |
| American Society of Hematology | 4 | 8024 | 2006 |
| Schweizerbart | 3 | 4789 | 1596 |
| Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften | 3 | 5940 | 1980 |
| GeoScienceWorld | 3 | 4285 | 1428 |
| Geological Society of America | 3 | 6363 | 2121 |
| Future Medicine Ltd | 3 | 6959 | 2320 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 3 | 2968 | 989 |
| EDP Sciences | 3 | 1160 | 387 |
| BMJ | 3 | 9520 | 3173 |
| American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) | 3 | 4061 | 1354 |
| Thomas Telford Ltd. | 2 | 2393 | 1196 |
| The Endocrine Society | 2 | 5882 | 2941 |
| The American Association of Immunologists | 2 | 4590 | 2295 |
| Scientific Societies | 2 | 3274 | 1637 |
| Microbiology Society | 2 | 4373 | 2187 |
| Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) | 2 | 4407 | 2203 |
| Impact Journals LLC | 2 | 3693 | 1846 |
| Hogrefe Publishing Group | 2 | 6000 | 3000 |
| CSIRO Publishing | 2 | 3873 | 1937 |
| BioScientifica | 2 | 6949 | 3475 |
| Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | 2 | 2134 | 1067 |
| American Vacuum Society | 2 | 2620 | 1310 |
| American Mathematical Society (AMS) | 2 | 1396 | 698 |
| World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt | 1 | 1440 | 1440 |
| Wageningen Academic Publishers | 1 | 2160 | 2160 |
| University of Uludag - Department of Sports Medicine | 1 | 440 | 440 |
| Thieme Publishing Group | 1 | 1488 | 1488 |
| The International Institute of Anticancer Research | 1 | 600 | 600 |
| SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng | 1 | 836 | 836 |
| Society for Leukocyte Biology | 1 | 2261 | 2261 |
| Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM) | 1 | 2274 | 2274 |
| Schattauer GmbH | 1 | 1174 | 1174 |
| Royal College of Psychiatrists | 1 | 3797 | 3797 |
| Rockefeller University Press | 1 | 2550 | 2550 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 729 | 729 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| Nova Science Publishers | 1 | 750 | 750 |
| National Institute R and D of Materials Physics | 1 | 300 | 300 |
| MyJove Corporation | 1 | 1862 | 1862 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 1 | 930 | 930 |
| Libertas Academica, Ltd. | 1 | 779 | 779 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 1817 | 1817 |
| Jagiellonian University | 1 | 350 | 350 |
| IOS Press | 1 | 1080 | 1080 |
| International Mountain Society (IMS) and United Nations University | 1 | 536 | 536 |
| Institute of Mathematical Statistics | 1 | 615 | 615 |
| Herpetologists League | 1 | 2241 | 2241 |
| Geological Society of London | 1 | 2464 | 2464 |
| FASEB | 1 | 2376 | 2376 |
| e-Century Publishing Corporation, | 1 | 762 | 762 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 1 | 1595 | 1595 |
| Czech Botanical Society | 1 | 620 | 620 |
| Botanical Society of America | 1 | 120 | 120 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 308 | 308 |
| American Psychological Association (APA) | 1 | 3740 | 3740 |
| American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) | 1 | 2273 | 2273 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | 1 | 1953 | 1953 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
