We welcome the University of Calgary as new contributing institution! The LCR (Libraries and Cultural Resources) manages Calgary’s Open Access Authors Fund which pays APCs for articles published in fully OA journals.
Contact person is Christie Hurrell.
About the dataset
The dataset contributed by the LCR contains information on publication fees paid over 9 years from 2008 to 2016.
Cost Data
The data covers publication fees for 929 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 1 085 725€ and the average fee is 1 169€.
The following table and plots show the payments Calgary’s Open Access Authors Fund has made to publishers in the last 9 years.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Science + Business Media | 366 | 419924 | 1147 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 118 | 93291 | 791 |
| Springer Nature | 114 | 179591 | 1575 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 82 | 94180 | 1149 |
| MDPI AG | 25 | 25706 | 1028 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 22 | 39574 | 1799 |
| SAGE Publications | 19 | 25697 | 1352 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 17 | 22380 | 1316 |
| Elsevier BV | 16 | 22371 | 1398 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 16 | 10091 | 631 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 15 | 18803 | 1254 |
| BMJ | 11 | 16455 | 1496 |
| IOP Publishing | 11 | 13860 | 1260 |
| Joule Inc. | 11 | 13271 | 1206 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 9 | 16245 | 1805 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 7 | 7343 | 1049 |
| Canadian Center of Science and Education | 5 | 1125 | 225 |
| Informa UK Limited | 5 | 8432 | 1686 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 4 | 5578 | 1395 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 4 | 5225 | 1306 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 4 | 2333 | 583 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 3 | 4465 | 1488 |
| Nature Publishing Group | 3 | 5254 | 1751 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 3 | 4162 | 1387 |
| Sciedu Press | 3 | 612 | 204 |
| Austin Publications | 2 | 1209 | 605 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 2 | 4331 | 2165 |
| Clute Institute | 2 | 1236 | 618 |
| Co-Action Publishing | 2 | 2433 | 1216 |
| Enliven Archive | 2 | 1487 | 743 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 2 | 244 | 122 |
| MultiMed Inc. | 2 | 719 | 359 |
| The Company of Biologists | 2 | 2192 | 1096 |
| The Royal Society | 2 | 2469 | 1234 |
| American Society of Hematology | 1 | 2706 | 2706 |
| Atharva Scientific Publications | 1 | 201 | 201 |
| Canadian Science Publishing | 1 | 1308 | 1308 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 801 | 801 |
| East West Institute | 1 | 270 | 270 |
| Future Science, LTD | 1 | 594 | 594 |
| Global Research & Development Services | 1 | 136 | 136 |
| Herald Scholarly Open Access | 1 | 850 | 850 |
| IGIP | 1 | 50 | 50 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 1354 | 1354 |
| Internet Scientific Publications | 1 | 168 | 168 |
| Lifescience Global | 1 | 311 | 311 |
| Medknow | 1 | 1215 | 1215 |
| MIR Center for Socio-Economic Research | 1 | 145 | 145 |
| Omics Publishing Group | 1 | 93 | 93 |
| Open Medicine Publications | 1 | 1174 | 1174 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 741 | 741 |
| S. Karger AG | 1 | 1321 | 1321 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
