In 2014 the Wellcome Trust started to make its APC expenditures publicly available. Another set of this data 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 2013 to September 2014 (Open APC treats this data as having all been processed in the 2014 period).
Cost Data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 2,486 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 5 572 968€ and the average fee is 2 242€.
The following table shows the payments the Wellcome Trust has made to publishers in 2014 (including taxes and discounts).
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elsevier BV | 531 | 1426957 | 2687 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 337 | 783693 | 2326 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 275 | 374085 | 1360 |
| Springer Science + Business Media | 252 | 511926 | 2031 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 205 | 505085 | 2464 |
| Nature Publishing Group | 82 | 306616 | 3739 |
| BMJ | 76 | 184006 | 2421 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 66 | 74403 | 1127 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 54 | 114510 | 2121 |
| Informa UK Limited | 49 | 100202 | 2045 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 48 | 99312 | 2069 |
| The Company of Biologists | 44 | 131673 | 2993 |
| American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB) | 43 | 67871 | 1578 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 35 | 86255 | 2464 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 33 | 80425 | 2437 |
| SAGE Publications | 32 | 44521 | 1391 |
| The Royal Society | 32 | 53566 | 1674 |
| Portland Press Ltd. | 31 | 69850 | 2253 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 22 | 62148 | 2825 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 19 | 16833 | 886 |
| Microbiology Society | 17 | 41662 | 2451 |
| American Psychological Association (APA) | 15 | 49913 | 3328 |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press | 13 | 22171 | 1705 |
| The Endocrine Society | 12 | 31343 | 2612 |
| Co-Action Publishing | 11 | 14838 | 1349 |
| American Society of Hematology | 10 | 16728 | 1673 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 10 | 22605 | 2260 |
| Future Medicine Ltd | 8 | 17593 | 2199 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 8 | 7242 | 905 |
| MDPI AG | 8 | 9244 | 1156 |
| MyJove Corporation | 8 | 17653 | 2207 |
| Royal College of Psychiatrists | 8 | 29316 | 3664 |
| American Physiological Society | 7 | 12065 | 1724 |
| S. Karger AG | 6 | 16978 | 2830 |
| Johns Hopkins University Press | 5 | 12567 | 2513 |
| American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) | 4 | 10294 | 2573 |
| EMBO | 4 | 10630 | 2657 |
| IOP Publishing | 4 | 9552 | 2388 |
| The American Association of Immunologists | 4 | 8526 | 2132 |
| American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 3 | 5688 | 1896 |
| European Respiratory Society (ERS) | 3 | 9088 | 3029 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 3 | 2834 | 945 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 3 | 6000 | 2000 |
| American Dairy Science Association | 2 | 3783 | 1891 |
| American Psychiatric Publishing | 2 | 5625 | 2813 |
| American Society for Nutrition | 2 | 8754 | 4377 |
| American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) | 2 | 6550 | 3275 |
| American Society of Nephrology (ASN) | 2 | 5222 | 2611 |
| BioScientifica | 2 | 4837 | 2419 |
| Brill Academic Publishers | 2 | 4290 | 2145 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 2 | 1186 | 593 |
| FASEB | 2 | 4131 | 2066 |
| Genetics Society of America | 2 | 2625 | 1313 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 1847 | 924 |
| International AIDS Society | 2 | 4721 | 2360 |
| International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease | 2 | 6092 | 3046 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 2 | 3308 | 1654 |
| SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng | 2 | 1711 | 856 |
| American Diabetes Association | 1 | 435 | 435 |
| American Public Health Association | 1 | 1821 | 1821 |
| American Society for Clinical Investigation | 1 | 3221 | 3221 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 1 | 1730 | 1730 |
| Emerald | 1 | 1458 | 1458 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 1 | 1812 | 1812 |
| Human Kinetics | 1 | 1462 | 1462 |
| Joule Inc. | 1 | 1530 | 1530 |
| Liverpool University Press | 1 | 1832 | 1832 |
| Maney Publishing | 1 | 2578 | 2578 |
| Physicians Postgraduate Press, Inc | 1 | 1849 | 1849 |
| Scientific Societies | 1 | 1883 | 1883 |
| Society for Leukocyte Biology | 1 | 1939 | 1939 |
| The Policy Press | 1 | 2199 | 2199 |
| University of Chicago Press | 1 | 2270 | 2270 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 1801 | 1801 |
With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for the Wellcome Trust which has been added to OpenAPC up to this point looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
