Jisc Collections has been gathering and releasing data on APC payments made by UK higher education institutions (HEIs).
One of these datasets (aggregated APC data for the 2015 period) has now been included into OpenAPC.
Cost data
The ingested data covers publication fees for 6,002 articles published by UK institutions. Total expenditure amounts to 14 520 664€ and the average fee is 2 419€.
The following table and plots show a breakdown of the payments.
Overview
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elsevier BV | 1384 | 3857676 | 2787 |
| Springer Nature | 940 | 2342742 | 2492 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 710 | 1880345 | 2648 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 485 | 809150 | 1668 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 314 | 882302 | 2810 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 244 | 697615 | 2859 |
| BMJ | 209 | 495066 | 2369 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 176 | 243048 | 1381 |
| Informa UK Limited | 160 | 232681 | 1454 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 134 | 284557 | 2124 |
| The Royal Society | 107 | 243187 | 2273 |
| IOP Publishing | 94 | 217426 | 2313 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 87 | 136016 | 1563 |
| SAGE Publications | 83 | 81829 | 986 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 58 | 164168 | 2830 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 57 | 78835 | 1383 |
| American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB) | 50 | 104526 | 2091 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 48 | 196078 | 4085 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 48 | 150424 | 3134 |
| The Company of Biologists | 40 | 133063 | 3327 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 37 | 100817 | 2725 |
| MDPI AG | 34 | 50352 | 1481 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 34 | 70976 | 2088 |
| AIP Publishing | 33 | 71073 | 2154 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 25 | 42739 | 1710 |
| The American Association of Immunologists | 19 | 59862 | 3151 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 15 | 26987 | 1799 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 15 | 14954 | 997 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 15 | 35412 | 2361 |
| EMBO | 14 | 49014 | 3501 |
| American Meteorological Society | 12 | 17189 | 1432 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 12 | 31409 | 2617 |
| Springer Science + Business Media | 11 | 29907 | 2719 |
| American Psychological Association (APA) | 11 | 43335 | 3940 |
| Microbiology Society | 11 | 27993 | 2545 |
| Portland Press Ltd. | 11 | 22968 | 2088 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 11 | 2499 | 227 |
| Informa Healthcare | 10 | 24117 | 2412 |
| American Society for Nutrition | 9 | 48778 | 5420 |
| American Society of Hematology | 9 | 19680 | 2187 |
| American Physiological Society | 8 | 16856 | 2107 |
| Dove Medical Press Ltd. | 8 | 18199 | 2275 |
| Geological Society of London | 8 | 19788 | 2474 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 8 | 13046 | 1631 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 8 | 27193 | 3399 |
| PeerJ | 8 | 2998 | 375 |
| Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM) | 8 | 16612 | 2077 |
| Royal College of Psychiatrists | 7 | 25369 | 3624 |
| American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) | 7 | 19623 | 2803 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 7 | 9814 | 1402 |
| The Endocrine Society | 7 | 20944 | 2992 |
| FASEB | 6 | 15462 | 2577 |
| Inter-Research Science Center | 6 | 9041 | 1507 |
| S. Karger AG | 6 | 16798 | 2800 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 5 | 7796 | 1559 |
| BioScientifica | 5 | 13680 | 2736 |
| Future Medicine Ltd | 5 | 14061 | 2812 |
| Geological Society of America | 5 | 12105 | 2421 |
| SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng | 5 | 4031 | 806 |
| MyJove Corporation | 4 | 13263 | 3316 |
| Spandidos Publications | 4 | 5043 | 1261 |
| World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt | 4 | 5732 | 1433 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 3 | 7450 | 2483 |
| American Society for Clinical Investigation | 3 | 13014 | 4338 |
| American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) | 3 | 5706 | 1902 |
| British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery | 3 | 4797 | 1599 |
| British Institute of Radiology | 3 | 8519 | 2840 |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press | 3 | 6637 | 2212 |
| Emerald | 3 | 4938 | 1646 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 3 | 2662 | 887 |
| The Policy Press | 3 | 6410 | 2137 |
| University of Chicago Press | 3 | 4697 | 1566 |
| Johns Hopkins University Press | 2 | 6208 | 3104 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | 2 | 5175 | 2588 |
| American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) | 2 | 10887 | 5443 |
| American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 2 | 4506 | 2253 |
| Audio Engineering Society | 2 | 1965 | 982 |
| Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. | 2 | 5535 | 2768 |
| Cogitatio | 2 | 1203 | 601 |
| Future Science, LTD | 2 | 5062 | 2531 |
| Genetics Society of America | 2 | 3913 | 1957 |
| GeoScienceWorld | 2 | 6086 | 3043 |
| Mineralogical Society | 2 | 4136 | 2068 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 2 | 2667 | 1334 |
| Rockefeller University Press | 2 | 8412 | 4206 |
| Schattauer GmbH | 2 | 3212 | 1606 |
| Thomas Telford Ltd. | 2 | 4521 | 2261 |
| Textrum, Ltd. | 1 | 1489 | 1489 |
| American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) | 1 | 2515 | 2515 |
| American Society of Nephrology (ASN) | 1 | 3230 | 3230 |
| American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) | 1 | 2303 | 2303 |
| Antiquity Publications | 1 | 1654 | 1654 |
| Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | 1 | 1417 | 1417 |
| Botanical Society of America | 1 | 834 | 834 |
| Canadian Science Publishing | 1 | 3326 | 3326 |
| Co-Action Publishing | 1 | 1949 | 1949 |
| Cognizant Electronic Publishing | 1 | 1361 | 1361 |
| CSIRO Publishing | 1 | 2909 | 2909 |
| Edinburgh University Global Health Society | 1 | 965 | 965 |
| EDP Sciences | 1 | 623 | 623 |
| European Respiratory Society (ERS) | 1 | 3308 | 3308 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 1 | 1864 | 1864 |
| Institute of Mathematical Statistics | 1 | 608 | 608 |
| International AIDS Society | 1 | 2473 | 2473 |
| John Benjamins Publishing Company | 1 | 2059 | 2059 |
| Maney Publishing | 1 | 689 | 689 |
| Open Medscience Limited | 1 | 579 | 579 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 4468 | 4468 |
| Radiation Research Society | 1 | 4617 | 4617 |
| Society for Sedimentary Geology | 1 | 2933 | 2933 |
| The Science and Information Organization | 1 | 234 | 234 |
| Thieme Publishing Group | 1 | 3120 | 3120 |
| UPV/EHU Press | 1 | 1361 | 1361 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 1207 | 1207 |
With the new data included, OpenAPC has now ingested 10,553 articles from Jisc collections, covering 41 institutions and a total sum of 23 893 135€:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
