The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has provided additional APC data for the 2019 and 2020 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 updated data set provided by the SNSF covers publication fees for 759 articles published in 2019 and 2020. Total expenditure amounts to 1 684 650€ and the average fee is 2 220€. The following table provides an overview:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 202 | 554339 | 2744 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 117 | 276865 | 2366 |
| MDPI AG | 101 | 129959 | 1287 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 52 | 94672 | 1821 |
| Elsevier BV | 48 | 143342 | 2986 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 39 | 72481 | 1858 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 27 | 64406 | 2385 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 20 | 36675 | 1834 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 16 | 41097 | 2569 |
| BMJ | 14 | 26821 | 1916 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 13 | 30521 | 2348 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 12 | 46862 | 3905 |
| Informa UK Limited | 8 | 15631 | 1954 |
| PeerJ | 8 | 7221 | 903 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 7 | 19273 | 2753 |
| IOP Publishing | 6 | 10422 | 1737 |
| SAGE Publications | 6 | 9206 | 1534 |
| The Royal Society | 6 | 6483 | 1081 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 5 | 9170 | 1834 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 4 | 7142 | 1786 |
| Cogitatio | 4 | 3915 | 979 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 4 | 3982 | 996 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 3 | 2451 | 817 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 3 | 8073 | 2691 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 3 | 3682 | 1227 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 2 | 1998 | 999 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 2 | 3144 | 1572 |
| EMBO | 2 | 8376 | 4188 |
| Genetics Society of America | 2 | 3978 | 1989 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 2 | 3592 | 1796 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 2 | 5258 | 2629 |
| SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng | 2 | 2436 | 1218 |
| The Company of Biologists | 2 | 4908 | 2454 |
| The Endocrine Society | 2 | 3159 | 1579 |
| Acta Dermato-Venereologica | 1 | 1741 | 1741 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1431 | 1431 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 1459 | 1459 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 1 | 2975 | 2975 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 3207 | 3207 |
| Association Palaeovertebrata | 1 | 1080 | 1080 |
| Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. | 1 | 2231 | 2231 |
| Cell Physiol Biochem Press GmbH and Co KG | 1 | 1797 | 1797 |
| EDP Sciences | 1 | 989 | 989 |
| Joule Inc. | 1 | 2096 | 2096 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 1636 | 1636 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 786 | 786 |
| S. Karger AG | 1 | 1681 | 1681 |
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)
