We welcome the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) as new contributing institution and as our first participant from Switzerland!
Within the framework of the SNSF’s OA policy, grantees are required to publish the results of their research in the form of Open Access publications. APC data on those publications has now kindly been made available to OpenAPC.
Contact Person for the SNSF is Christian Gutknecht.
Cost data
The dataset provided by the SNSF contains publication fees for 302 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 514 522€ and the average fee is 1 704€.
The following table shows the APC payments the SNSF has made to publishers from 2011 to 2017:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 64 | 138629 | 2166 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 51 | 67574 | 1325 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 34 | 45868 | 1349 |
| Elsevier BV | 24 | 54811 | 2284 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 16 | 18034 | 1127 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 15 | 25087 | 1672 |
| IOP Publishing | 12 | 18132 | 1511 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 11 | 21795 | 1981 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 8 | 12232 | 1529 |
| Springer Science + Business Media | 8 | 10519 | 1315 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 7 | 11906 | 1701 |
| MDPI AG | 6 | 6306 | 1051 |
| Informa UK Limited | 4 | 7671 | 1918 |
| SAGE Publications | 4 | 4218 | 1054 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 3 | 7551 | 2517 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 3 | 4008 | 1336 |
| EMBO | 3 | 7424 | 2475 |
| Genetics Society of America | 3 | 5009 | 1670 |
| MyJove Corporation | 3 | 11690 | 3897 |
| AIP Publishing | 2 | 3129 | 1565 |
| American Meteorological Society | 2 | 3934 | 1967 |
| Nature Publishing Group | 2 | 3085 | 1543 |
| The Royal Society | 2 | 3801 | 1900 |
| American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) | 1 | 2146 | 2146 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 2298 | 2298 |
| American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) | 1 | 1596 | 1596 |
| BMJ | 1 | 1389 | 1389 |
| Canadian Center of Science and Education | 1 | 227 | 227 |
| e-Century Publishing Corporation | 1 | 839 | 839 |
| EDP Sciences | 1 | 448 | 448 |
| eLife Sciences Organisation, Ltd. | 1 | 2443 | 2443 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 550 | 550 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 1 | 2683 | 2683 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 1 | 711 | 711 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 2188 | 2188 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 391 | 391 |
| Rockefeller University Press | 1 | 2126 | 2126 |
| S. Karger AG | 1 | 2075 | 2075 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
