We welcome Harvard University Library as new contributing institution! The Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC) manages the HOPE Fund which provides funds for the reimbursement of article processing fees.
Contact person is Amanda Cullin.
About the dataset
The dataset contributed by the OSC contains information on publication fees paid over 7 years from 2010 to 2016.
Cost Data
The data covers publication fees for 95 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 83 793€ and the average fee is 882€.
The following table and plots show the payments the OSC has made to publishers in the last 7 years.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 39 | 31044 | 796 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 9 | 7191 | 799 |
| Springer Nature | 7 | 9502 | 1357 |
| Elsevier BV | 6 | 10609 | 1768 |
| Springer Science + Business Media | 6 | 5573 | 929 |
| IOP Publishing | 5 | 3236 | 647 |
| PeerJ | 4 | 680 | 170 |
| BMJ | 3 | 1238 | 413 |
| MDPI AG | 3 | 2029 | 676 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 2458 | 1229 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 2 | 1324 | 662 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 701 | 701 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 1141 | 1141 |
| Harvard University Press | 1 | 1623 | 1623 |
| International AIDS Society | 1 | 1744 | 1744 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 690 | 690 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 1353 | 1353 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 565 | 565 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 75 | 75 |
| The Company of Biologists | 1 | 1017 | 1017 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
