Jisc Collections has been gathering and openly releasing data on APC payments made by UK higher education institutions (HEIs).
One of these datasets (APC data for the 2014 period) has now been included into OpenAPC.
Cost data
The ingested data covers publication fees for 4,559 articles published by 22 UK institutions in 2014. Total expenditure amounts to 9 388 175€ and the average fee is 2 059€.
The following table and plots show a breakdown of the payments.
Overview
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elsevier BV | 918 | 2085553 | 2272 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 730 | 1580005 | 2164 |
| Springer Science + Business Media | 598 | 1167899 | 1953 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 313 | 411924 | 1316 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 235 | 577697 | 2458 |
| BMJ | 228 | 506481 | 2221 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 147 | 335820 | 2284 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 134 | 154313 | 1152 |
| Nature Publishing Group | 129 | 481270 | 3731 |
| Informa UK Limited | 124 | 251173 | 2026 |
| SAGE Publications | 99 | 67810 | 685 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 89 | 165367 | 1858 |
| The Royal Society | 88 | 148207 | 1684 |
| IOP Publishing | 63 | 135747 | 2155 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 58 | 82212 | 1417 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 49 | 132561 | 2705 |
| AIP Publishing | 40 | 72415 | 1810 |
| American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB) | 33 | 59510 | 1803 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 28 | 73644 | 2630 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 27 | 57752 | 2139 |
| MDPI AG | 26 | 29998 | 1154 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 26 | 72465 | 2787 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 24 | 43161 | 1798 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 23 | 27433 | 1193 |
| The Company of Biologists | 22 | 66290 | 3013 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 20 | 25182 | 1259 |
| Portland Press Ltd. | 13 | 26430 | 2033 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 13 | 16857 | 1297 |
| Springer Nature | 13 | 31977 | 2460 |
| American Society for Nutrition | 12 | 50367 | 4197 |
| The Endocrine Society | 12 | 31944 | 2662 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 11 | 11267 | 1024 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 11 | 9412 | 856 |
| American Psychological Association (APA) | 9 | 29450 | 3272 |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press | 8 | 12405 | 1551 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 8 | 7979 | 997 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 8 | 19286 | 2411 |
| Microbiology Society | 8 | 15709 | 1964 |
| American Physiological Society | 7 | 13214 | 1888 |
| American Society of Hematology | 7 | 12609 | 1801 |
| Geological Society of America | 7 | 14523 | 2075 |
| EMBO | 6 | 17934 | 2989 |
| European Respiratory Society (ERS) | 6 | 17499 | 2917 |
| FASEB | 6 | 11655 | 1943 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 6 | 7038 | 1173 |
| American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) | 5 | 15126 | 3025 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 5 | 7134 | 1427 |
| S. Karger AG | 5 | 12954 | 2591 |
| The American Association of Immunologists | 5 | 11443 | 2289 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 4 | 4681 | 1170 |
| Co-Action Publishing | 4 | 4233 | 1058 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 4 | 7350 | 1837 |
| Future Medicine Ltd | 4 | 9642 | 2411 |
| MyJove Corporation | 4 | 9223 | 2306 |
| Royal College of General Practitioners | 4 | 10064 | 2516 |
| SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng | 4 | 3386 | 847 |
| Thomas Telford Ltd. | 4 | 7804 | 1951 |
| American Meteorological Society | 3 | 1933 | 644 |
| American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 3 | 6122 | 2041 |
| British Institute of Radiology | 3 | 7720 | 2573 |
| Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) | 3 | 7399 | 2466 |
| IOS Press | 3 | 3148 | 1049 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 3 | 2760 | 920 |
| PeerJ | 3 | 975 | 325 |
| Royal College of Psychiatrists | 3 | 9929 | 3310 |
| Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM) | 3 | 5520 | 1840 |
| World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt | 3 | 4056 | 1352 |
| American Society for Clinical Investigation | 2 | 6611 | 3305 |
| BioScientifica | 2 | 2730 | 1365 |
| Brill Academic Publishers | 2 | 4295 | 2147 |
| Edinburgh University Global Health Society | 2 | 2215 | 1108 |
| Geological Society of London | 2 | 4468 | 2234 |
| Informa Healthcare | 2 | 6327 | 3163 |
| The Policy Press | 2 | 4468 | 2234 |
| American Public Health Association | 1 | 1850 | 1850 |
| American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) | 1 | 1579 | 1579 |
| American Society of Nephrology (ASN) | 1 | 2777 | 2777 |
| American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) | 1 | 2403 | 2403 |
| American Vacuum Society | 1 | 1593 | 1593 |
| Canadian Science Publishing | 1 | 2864 | 2864 |
| EMW Publishing | 1 | 255 | 255 |
| Human Kinetics | 1 | 1485 | 1485 |
| International AIDS Society | 1 | 2101 | 2101 |
| International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease | 1 | 3041 | 3041 |
| Johns Hopkins University Press | 1 | 447 | 447 |
| Liverpool University Press | 1 | 1862 | 1862 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 1096 | 1096 |
| Royal College of Physicians | 1 | 1489 | 1489 |
| Society for Leukocyte Biology | 1 | 2045 | 2045 |
| Sociological Research Online | 1 | 1191 | 1191 |
| The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research (North Shore LIJ Research Institute) | 1 | 1408 | 1408 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 279 | 279 |
| University of Chicago Press | 1 | 2307 | 2307 |
| Future Science, LTD | 1 | 2812 | 2812 |
| Magnolia Press | 1 | 130 | 130 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
