We welcome the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as new contributor to OpenAPC!
The Foundation provides funding for OA fees in accordance with their Open Access policy and has provided data on those expenditures to OpenAPC.
Contact person for the data at Gates Foundation is Ashley Farley.
Cost data
The data set provided by the Gates Foundation contains publication fees for 3,240 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 7 750 115€ and the average fee is 2 392€.
The following table shows the APC payments the Foundation has made to publishers from 2016 to 2019:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elsevier BV | 898 | 2494688 | 2778 |
| Springer Nature | 511 | 1052281 | 2059 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 335 | 564479 | 1685 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 284 | 937589 | 3301 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 232 | 640878 | 2762 |
| BMJ | 117 | 299144 | 2557 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 109 | 86072 | 790 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 99 | 243422 | 2459 |
| American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 78 | 183678 | 2355 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 74 | 160685 | 2171 |
| Informa UK Limited | 68 | 131317 | 1931 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 50 | 173849 | 3477 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 45 | 108955 | 2421 |
| MDPI AG | 31 | 40723 | 1314 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 30 | 77451 | 2582 |
| International Global Health Society | 29 | 37249 | 1284 |
| Crop Science Society of America | 23 | 36950 | 1607 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 14 | 55119 | 3937 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 14 | 35482 | 2534 |
| IWA Publishing | 13 | 20356 | 1566 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 11 | 15593 | 1418 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 11 | 19879 | 1807 |
| SAGE Publications | 11 | 23329 | 2121 |
| Genetics Society of America | 10 | 18370 | 1837 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 8 | 17013 | 2127 |
| ASBMB | 7 | 10805 | 1544 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 7 | 19859 | 2837 |
| Health Affairs (Project Hope) | 6 | 20773 | 3462 |
| Scientific Societies | 6 | 13173 | 2196 |
| IOP Publishing | 5 | 9872 | 1974 |
| Wageningen Academic Publishers | 5 | 5388 | 1078 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 4 | 16271 | 4068 |
| CSIRO Publishing | 4 | 8140 | 2035 |
| Future Medicine Ltd | 4 | 3627 | 907 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 4 | 3478 | 870 |
| Inishmore Laser Scientific Publishing Ltd | 4 | 1968 | 492 |
| The Royal Society | 4 | 7940 | 1985 |
| Academic Journals | 3 | 1578 | 526 |
| American Society for Clinical Investigation | 3 | 9547 | 3182 |
| IEEE | 3 | 4564 | 1521 |
| International Association for Food Protection | 3 | 8119 | 2706 |
| International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease | 3 | 5101 | 1700 |
| MyJove Corporation | 3 | 11057 | 3686 |
| OMICS Publishing Group | 3 | 3688 | 1229 |
| Practical Action Publishing | 3 | 3016 | 1005 |
| S. Karger AG | 3 | 8049 | 2683 |
| African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development | 2 | 532 | 266 |
| American Dairy Science Association | 2 | 5979 | 2989 |
| Annual Reviews | 2 | 8631 | 4316 |
| Brill | 2 | 4039 | 2019 |
| Canadian Center of Science and Education | 2 | 528 | 264 |
| EMBO | 2 | 7849 | 3924 |
| Emerald | 2 | 2919 | 1459 |
| IGI Global | 2 | 2611 | 1305 |
| Microbiology Society | 2 | 1626 | 813 |
| Rockefeller University Press | 2 | 8319 | 4159 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | 1 | 1873 | 1873 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1903 | 1903 |
| American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) | 1 | 2516 | 2516 |
| American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) | 1 | 2843 | 2843 |
| American Astronomical Society | 1 | 1413 | 1413 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 2929 | 2929 |
| American Society of Nephrology (ASN) | 1 | 5857 | 5857 |
| American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) | 1 | 3420 | 3420 |
| ASME International | 1 | 2537 | 2537 |
| ClinMed International Library | 1 | 1269 | 1269 |
| European Respiratory Society (ERS) | 1 | 3014 | 3014 |
| FASEB | 1 | 2121 | 2121 |
| Fundacao Faculdade de Medicina | 1 | 1318 | 1318 |
| Global Health and Education Projects, Inc. (GHEP) | 1 | 530 | 530 |
| Guttmacher Institute | 1 | 2072 | 2072 |
| Herald Scholarly Open Access | 1 | 1206 | 1206 |
| Hogrefe Publishing Group | 1 | 2661 | 2661 |
| Inderscience Publishers | 1 | 2179 | 2179 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 1798 | 1798 |
| Portland Press Ltd. | 1 | 3027 | 3027 |
| Sci Forschen, Inc. | 1 | 671 | 671 |
| Science Alert | 1 | 528 | 528 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 1 | 183 | 183 |
| SNF Swedish Nutrition Foundation | 1 | 1797 | 1797 |
| The American Association of Immunologists | 1 | 2155 | 2155 |
| The Endocrine Society | 1 | 2615 | 2615 |
| Universitas Jenderal Soedirman | 1 | 85 | 85 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
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)
