ETH Zurich joins OpenAPC


We welcome the ETH Zurich as new contributing institution!

The ETH Library provides funding for Open Access publishing and has provided an initial data set on funded articles to OpenAPC.

Contact Person is Dr. Rainer Rees-Mertins.

Cost data

The initial data set covers publication fees for 338 articles published in 2020. Total expenditure amounts to 596,793€ and the average fee is 1,766€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 88 166102 1888
Copernicus GmbH 75 130129 1735
MDPI AG 72 84199 1169
Springer Nature 33 55789 1691
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 31 56980 1838
Wiley-Blackwell 31 81044 2614
American Chemical Society (ACS) 3 10035 3345
EMBO 2 7050 3525
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 1 1487 1487
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 3545 3545
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 433 433

Overview

A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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