The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has provided additional APC data for the 2017 and 2018 periods.
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 is kindly made available to OpenAPC.
Contact Person for the SNSF is Christian Gutknecht.
Cost data
The new data set provided by the SNSF covers publication fees for 135 articles published in 2017 and 2018. Total expenditure amounts to 276 177€ and the average fee is 2 046€.
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data sets provides the following overview:
Breakdown by publisher
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 39 | 97873 | 2510 |
| Elsevier BV | 15 | 38399 | 2560 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 14 | 29696 | 2121 |
| MDPI AG | 12 | 12410 | 1034 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 12 | 20485 | 1707 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 6 | 10943 | 1824 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 3 | 11053 | 3684 |
| BMJ | 3 | 4408 | 1469 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 3 | 4304 | 1435 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 3 | 6437 | 2146 |
| IOP Publishing | 3 | 5098 | 1699 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 3 | 5475 | 1825 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 3 | 5525 | 1842 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 2 | 3245 | 1622 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 2828 | 1414 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 2 | 2263 | 1131 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 1308 | 1308 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 1537 | 1537 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 2580 | 2580 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 2223 | 2223 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 1143 | 1143 |
| EMBO | 1 | 3335 | 3335 |
| Informa UK Limited | 1 | 507 | 507 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 619 | 619 |
| Schweizerbart | 1 | 801 | 801 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 1683 | 1683 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
