OpenAIRE shares data from the EC FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot with OpenAPC


We welcome OpenAIRE as our new contributing organisation! OpenAIRE coordinates the FP7 Post-Grant OA Pilot on behalf of the European Commission and has decided to share with OpenAPC the data for APC payments made thus far under this ongoing funding initiative. A full dataset with be provided upon the conclusion of this pilot as of Apr 30th, 2017.

Contact person is Pablo de Castro.

Cost Data

The dataset covers publication fees for 546 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 792 703€ and the average fee is 1 452€.

The following table and plots show the payments made to publishers by the FP7 Post-Grant OA Pilot.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 184 278510 1514
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 72 103879 1443
Frontiers Media SA 51 74115 1453
MDPI AG 47 58911 1253
Copernicus GmbH 35 46313 1323
Elsevier BV 21 31050 1479
IOP Publishing 14 20307 1451
Optical Society of America (OSA) 14 25164 1797
Wiley-Blackwell 14 21460 1533
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 13 18037 1387
BMJ 9 15361 1707
SAGE Publications 6 6990 1165
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 5 6935 1387
Oxford University Press (OUP) 5 9078 1816
AIP Publishing 4 5648 1412
American Society for Microbiology 4 6394 1599
Impact Journals, LLC 4 8000 2000
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 4 4505 1126
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 3 4758 1586
EMBO 3 6000 2000
Informa UK Limited 3 2144 715
JMIR Publications Inc. 3 5335 1778
American Society for Clinical Investigation 2 4000 2000
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2 2885 1442
Co-Action Publishing 2 2670 1335
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 2 3201 1600
Ivyspring International Publisher 2 2516 1258
PeerJ 2 1154 577
The Company of Biologists 2 3365 1683
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2 2275 1138
American Physical Society (APS) 1 1561 1561
Cancer Intelligence 1 1234 1234
Crop Science Society of America 1 1988 1988
Ess & Ess Research Publications 1 486 486
F1000 Research, Ltd. 1 468 468
FapUNIFESP (SciELO) 1 209 209
International Mountain Society (IMS) and United Nations University 1 464 464
Mary Ann Liebert Inc 1 1026 1026
OMICS Publishing Group 1 1907 1907
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 476 476
RonPub 1 240 240
The Royal Society 1 1680 1680

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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