The FWF (Austrian Science fund) has updated its data on both APC and BPC expenditures.
Contact person is Katharina Rieck.
Cost Data
The new data set covers publication fees for 1,409 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 2,788,484€ and the average fee is 1,979€. 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.
In addition, the FWF also reported cost data on BPC expenditures for the first time. These records are not listed here, but they can be inspected in the according BPC treemap section.
The following table shows the APC payments the FWF has made to publishers in 2019 (including taxes and discounts).
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 283 | 569461 | 2012 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 248 | 491069 | 1980 |
| Elsevier BV | 168 | 396469 | 2360 |
| MDPI AG | 153 | 189209 | 1237 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 107 | 276894 | 2588 |
| Informa UK Limited | 79 | 150981 | 1911 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 53 | 117899 | 2224 |
| IOP Publishing | 49 | 111171 | 2269 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 33 | 38204 | 1158 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 24 | 39333 | 1639 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 18 | 36219 | 2012 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 13 | 31157 | 2397 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 13 | 20943 | 1611 |
| EMBO | 9 | 23589 | 2621 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 8 | 18485 | 2311 |
| AIP Publishing | 7 | 12883 | 1840 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 7 | 11971 | 1710 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 7 | 13002 | 1857 |
| MyJove Corporation | 7 | 16262 | 2323 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 6 | 12875 | 2146 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 5 | 14954 | 2991 |
| American Astronomical Society | 5 | 8423 | 1685 |
| American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB) | 5 | 12919 | 2584 |
| The Royal Society | 5 | 9313 | 1863 |
| World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt | 5 | 8452 | 1690 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 4 | 8828 | 2207 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 3 | 9730 | 3243 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 3 | 7282 | 2427 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 3 | 5064 | 1688 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 3 | 4884 | 1628 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 3 | 7992 | 2664 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 3 | 2391 | 797 |
| Vittorio Klostermann GMBH | 3 | 4605 | 1535 |
| American Society of Hematology | 2 | 5962 | 2981 |
| American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) | 2 | 3000 | 1500 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 2 | 2619 | 1310 |
| Cogitatio | 2 | 2160 | 1080 |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press | 2 | 3000 | 1500 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 2 | 1357 | 679 |
| Jagiellonian University | 2 | 600 | 300 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 2 | 5000 | 2500 |
| Magnolia Press | 2 | 1847 | 924 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 2 | 3000 | 1500 |
| Portland Press Ltd. | 2 | 2407 | 1203 |
| SAGE Publications | 2 | 558 | 279 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 2 | 3572 | 1786 |
| SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng | 2 | 1872 | 936 |
| Taiwan Association for Aerosol Research | 2 | 645 | 322 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 2 | 3900 | 1950 |
| Acta Dermato-Venereologica | 1 | 2010 | 2010 |
| ALTEX Edition | 1 | 2400 | 2400 |
| American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) | 1 | 1500 | 1500 |
| American Physiological Society | 1 | 1500 | 1500 |
| American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) | 1 | 1500 | 1500 |
| American Society for Clinical Investigation | 1 | 3899 | 3899 |
| American Society for Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) | 1 | 2133 | 2133 |
| American Society of Agronomy | 1 | 1250 | 1250 |
| American Thoracic Society | 1 | 4128 | 4128 |
| Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | 1 | 1418 | 1418 |
| Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. | 1 | 1500 | 1500 |
| Brill | 1 | 2394 | 2394 |
| CSIRO Publishing | 1 | 1500 | 1500 |
| European Respiratory Society (ERS) | 1 | 1500 | 1500 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 1 | 1952 | 1952 |
| Future Science, LTD | 1 | 2814 | 2814 |
| Geological Society of America | 1 | 2692 | 2692 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 2200 | 2200 |
| Hogrefe Publishing Group | 1 | 1500 | 1500 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 1 | 2790 | 2790 |
| International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) | 1 | 1500 | 1500 |
| Microbiology Society | 1 | 1500 | 1500 |
| Mineralogical Association of Canada | 1 | 945 | 945 |
| Mineralogical Society of America | 1 | 1500 | 1500 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 1 | 1438 | 1438 |
| PEETERS | 1 | 187 | 187 |
| Project Muse | 1 | 1500 | 1500 |
| Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) | 1 | 588 | 588 |
| S. Hirzel Verlag | 1 | 1200 | 1200 |
| S. Karger AG | 1 | 3700 | 3700 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 1 | 644 | 644 |
| Society for Sedimentary Geology | 1 | 2703 | 2703 |
| Society of Nuclear Medicine | 1 | 1500 | 1500 |
| University of Chicago Press | 1 | 1500 | 1500 |
| Wageningen Academic Publishers | 1 | 1080 | 1080 |
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)
