In 2014 the Wellcome Trust started to make its APC expenditures publicly available. The latest data has now been processed and added to Open APC’s data collection.
About the dataset
The dataset contributed by the Wellcome Trust contains information on publication fees covering a time span from October 2014 to September 2015 (Note that Open APC treats this data as having all been processed in the 2015 period).
Cost Data
The dataset covers publication fees for 2,823 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 7 277 264€ and the average fee is 2 578€.
The following table shows the payments the Wellcome Trust has made to publishers in 2015 (including taxes and discounts).
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elsevier BV | 612 | 1763148 | 2881 |
| Springer Nature | 518 | 1456593 | 2812 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 318 | 820048 | 2579 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 267 | 441766 | 1655 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 243 | 666507 | 2743 |
| BMJ | 122 | 326234 | 2674 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 71 | 91650 | 1291 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 59 | 222277 | 3767 |
| Informa UK Limited | 46 | 75897 | 1650 |
| American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB) | 44 | 79816 | 1814 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 41 | 107094 | 2612 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 38 | 119964 | 3157 |
| The Royal Society | 36 | 73124 | 2031 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 35 | 99964 | 2856 |
| The Company of Biologists | 34 | 113791 | 3347 |
| SAGE Publications | 26 | 30306 | 1166 |
| Portland Press Ltd. | 23 | 55023 | 2392 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 21 | 57367 | 2732 |
| EMBO | 17 | 57443 | 3379 |
| The American Association of Immunologists | 14 | 43853 | 3132 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 13 | 34884 | 2683 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 12 | 37650 | 3138 |
| S. Karger AG | 12 | 34780 | 2898 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 11 | 11680 | 1062 |
| Microbiology Society | 11 | 26551 | 2414 |
| Royal College of Psychiatrists | 11 | 43162 | 3924 |
| Future Medicine Ltd | 9 | 23064 | 2563 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 9 | 11775 | 1308 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 8 | 14547 | 1818 |
| American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) | 7 | 19137 | 2734 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 7 | 12680 | 1811 |
| American Physiological Society | 6 | 12149 | 2025 |
| American Psychological Association (APA) | 6 | 24597 | 4100 |
| American Society for Nutrition | 6 | 30825 | 5138 |
| BioScientifica | 6 | 12172 | 2029 |
| Informa Healthcare | 6 | 13758 | 2293 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 6 | 11989 | 1998 |
| The Endocrine Society | 6 | 17417 | 2903 |
| FASEB | 5 | 10950 | 2190 |
| MDPI AG | 5 | 8699 | 1740 |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press | 4 | 7246 | 1811 |
| IOP Publishing | 4 | 9860 | 2465 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 4 | 7025 | 1756 |
| American Society of Hematology | 3 | 6992 | 2331 |
| American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 3 | 6749 | 2250 |
| British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery | 3 | 4694 | 1565 |
| British Institute of Radiology | 3 | 8902 | 2967 |
| Future Science, LTD | 3 | 8255 | 2752 |
| PeerJ | 3 | 1156 | 385 |
| American Society for Clinical Investigation | 2 | 9408 | 4704 |
| American Thoracic Society | 2 | 3886 | 1943 |
| Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. | 2 | 5416 | 2708 |
| Co-Action Publishing | 2 | 2202 | 1101 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 2 | 4629 | 2315 |
| Genetics Society of America | 2 | 3837 | 1918 |
| IOS Press | 2 | 2279 | 1139 |
| Johns Hopkins University Press | 2 | 6392 | 3196 |
| MyJove Corporation | 2 | 3694 | 1847 |
| Oxford University Press | 2 | 6677 | 3338 |
| Royal College of General Practitioners | 2 | 5989 | 2994 |
| Schattauer GmbH | 2 | 3143 | 1571 |
| Society for Leukocyte Biology | 2 | 4832 | 2416 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | 1 | 1931 | 1931 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 2399 | 2399 |
| American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) | 1 | 2190 | 2190 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 1 | 5209 | 5209 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 1777 | 1777 |
| American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) | 1 | 5167 | 5167 |
| American Society of Nephrology (ASN) | 1 | 3017 | 3017 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 2118 | 2118 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 1028 | 1028 |
| International AIDS Society | 1 | 2469 | 2469 |
| International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease | 1 | 2655 | 2655 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 1 | 1292 | 1292 |
| Open Medscience Limited | 1 | 566 | 566 |
| Rockefeller University Press | 1 | 1437 | 1437 |
| Smart Science and Technology, LLC | 1 | 714 | 714 |
| Spandidos Publications | 1 | 515 | 515 |
| The Policy Press | 1 | 1416 | 1416 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 405 | 405 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 1792 | 1792 |
| World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt | 1 | 1577 | 1577 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
