The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has provided additional APC data for the 2015 - 2020 period.
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 updated data set provided by the SNSF covers publication fees for 501 articles published from 2015 to 2020. Total expenditure amounts to 1 125 462€ and the average fee is 2 246€. The following table provides an overview:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 152 | 393885 | 2591 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 75 | 167694 | 2236 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 41 | 65595 | 1600 |
| MDPI AG | 39 | 47053 | 1206 |
| Elsevier BV | 36 | 109880 | 3052 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 27 | 51053 | 1891 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 18 | 41815 | 2323 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 15 | 54466 | 3631 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 15 | 33518 | 2235 |
| IOP Publishing | 8 | 13278 | 1660 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 7 | 13758 | 1965 |
| AIP Publishing | 6 | 10437 | 1739 |
| PeerJ | 6 | 6373 | 1062 |
| BMJ | 5 | 7059 | 1412 |
| EMBO | 5 | 21734 | 4347 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 4 | 10778 | 2694 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 4 | 6024 | 1506 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 3 | 8465 | 2822 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 3 | 2607 | 869 |
| Informa UK Limited | 3 | 4925 | 1642 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 3 | 6299 | 2100 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 3 | 3428 | 1143 |
| Akademiai Kiado Zrt. | 2 | 1691 | 845 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 2 | 4315 | 2157 |
| BioScientifica | 2 | 7545 | 3773 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 2 | 3329 | 1665 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 2 | 4283 | 2142 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 2 | 3481 | 1741 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 3386 | 3386 |
| American Meteorological Society | 1 | 7684 | 7684 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 1609 | 1609 |
| Genetics Society of America | 1 | 1803 | 1803 |
| International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) | 1 | 311 | 311 |
| International Mountain Society (IMS) and United Nations University | 1 | 867 | 867 |
| Polska Akademia Nauk Instytut Paleobiologii (Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences) | 1 | 166 | 166 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 1036 | 1036 |
| Scientific Societies | 1 | 1879 | 1879 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 840 | 840 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 1111 | 1111 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the SNSF now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
