ETH Zurich reports its 2012 to 2019 APC expenditures


The ETH Zurich has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the years from 2012 to 2019.

The ETH Library provides funding for Open Access publishing and kindly provides data on funded articles to OpenAPC.

Contact Person is Dr. Rainer Rees-Mertins.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 1,219 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 1,799,823€ and the average fee is 1,476€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 381 580532 1524
Frontiers Media SA 300 551261 1838
Copernicus GmbH 269 447389 1663
MDPI AG 219 230606 1053
Springer Nature 216 308118 1426
Springer Science + Business Media 103 121245 1177
Wiley-Blackwell 47 112054 2384
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 7 9227 1318
EMBO 6 19159 3193
American Chemical Society (ACS) 3 10035 3345
American Vacuum Society 2 1382 691
EDP Sciences 1 864 864
OMICS Publishing Group 1 765 765
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 3545 3545
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 433 433

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the ETH Zurich now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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