The FWF (Austrian Science fund) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2018 period.
Contact person is Katharina Rieck.
Cost Data
The new data set covers publication fees for 834 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 1 884 589€ and the average fee is 2 260€.
The following table shows the APC payments the FWF has made to publishers in 2018 (including taxes and discounts).
Please note that the report provided by the FWF also contained a number of articles published under transformative agreements (with calculated cost data). Those records did not become part of the OpenAPC core data file, but were integrated into our Transformative Agreements collection instead. To view summarised cost information for both collections, have a look at our combined treemap visualisation.
In 2014, the FWF introduced price caps for gold OA (EUR 2500) and for hybrid OA (EUR 1500). Whenever costs exceed those caps, FWF funded authors can use other sources to cover the additional costs. In order to avoid distortions regarding mean values in the OpenAPC data set the FWF set does not include articles where these caps apply and where the additional costs were paid by other sources. For a full overview of FWF funded articles in 2018 please see https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3047009.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elsevier BV | 120 | 343443 | 2862 |
| Springer Nature | 118 | 239203 | 2027 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 114 | 250758 | 2200 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 85 | 215887 | 2540 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 59 | 195193 | 3308 |
| MDPI AG | 39 | 47284 | 1212 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 26 | 42175 | 1622 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 23 | 27006 | 1174 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 22 | 57141 | 2597 |
| IOP Publishing | 19 | 33441 | 1760 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 14 | 21267 | 1519 |
| AIP Publishing | 13 | 27152 | 2089 |
| American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB) | 11 | 22415 | 2038 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 10 | 35816 | 3582 |
| American Astronomical Society | 8 | 8468 | 1059 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 8 | 5101 | 638 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 7 | 26397 | 3771 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 6 | 16123 | 2687 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 6 | 17066 | 2844 |
| Informa UK Limited | 6 | 7824 | 1304 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 6 | 11266 | 1878 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 6 | 6752 | 1125 |
| SAGE Publications | 6 | 6583 | 1097 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 5 | 9798 | 1960 |
| American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) | 4 | 13891 | 3473 |
| American Society of Hematology | 4 | 6800 | 1700 |
| Genetics Society of America | 4 | 7716 | 1929 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 4 | 10806 | 2701 |
| Verlag F. Berger und Söhne | 4 | 2152 | 538 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 4 | 7180 | 1795 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 3 | 8080 | 2693 |
| IWA Publishing | 3 | 6162 | 2054 |
| S. Karger AG | 3 | 8764 | 2921 |
| American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) | 2 | 1540 | 770 |
| American Meteorological Society | 2 | 5056 | 2528 |
| American Society of Agronomy | 2 | 2740 | 1370 |
| American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) | 2 | 7943 | 3972 |
| Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. | 2 | 5481 | 2740 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 2 | 3423 | 1712 |
| EDP Sciences | 2 | 1540 | 770 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 2 | 4678 | 2339 |
| FASEB | 2 | 6457 | 3228 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 2 | 3840 | 1920 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 2726 | 1363 |
| Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences | 2 | 720 | 360 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 2 | 7608 | 3804 |
| The Company of Biologists | 2 | 7238 | 3619 |
| The Royal Society | 2 | 5636 | 2818 |
| American Mathematical Society (AMS) | 1 | 839 | 839 |
| American Physiological Society | 1 | 3267 | 3267 |
| American Society for Clinical Investigation | 1 | 4387 | 4387 |
| American Society for Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) | 1 | 1739 | 1739 |
| American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) | 1 | 1896 | 1896 |
| Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | 1 | 696 | 696 |
| BMJ | 1 | 3370 | 3370 |
| Brill | 1 | 2394 | 2394 |
| CSIRO Publishing | 1 | 3070 | 3070 |
| EMBO | 1 | 4700 | 4700 |
| Emerald | 1 | 1465 | 1465 |
| Geological Society of America | 1 | 2188 | 2188 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 1 | 1680 | 1680 |
| Herpetologists League | 1 | 2596 | 2596 |
| Hogrefe Publishing Group | 1 | 3000 | 3000 |
| Inderscience Publishers | 1 | 2276 | 2276 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 1 | 2333 | 2333 |
| IOS Press | 1 | 2940 | 2940 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 1917 | 1917 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 1 | 2705 | 2705 |
| Mineralogical Society of America | 1 | 2628 | 2628 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 1 | 1348 | 1348 |
| Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften | 1 | 1980 | 1980 |
| Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) | 1 | 1092 | 1092 |
| Rockefeller University Press | 1 | 4304 | 4304 |
| Schweizerbart | 1 | 1525 | 1525 |
| Seismological Society of America (SSA) | 1 | 3160 | 3160 |
| Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM) | 1 | 2193 | 2193 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 1340 | 1340 |
| SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng | 1 | 844 | 844 |
| Systematic and Applied Acarology Society | 1 | 509 | 509 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 421 | 421 |
| Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co, KG | 1 | 600 | 600 |
| World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt | 1 | 1452 | 1452 |
With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for the FWF now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
