University of Turku reports additional 2020 APC expenditures


The University of Turku has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides cost data on APCs paid between September and December 2020.

The data has been collected by Turku University Library, contact person is Anna-Kaarina Linna.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 155 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 290 825€ and the average fee is 1 876€.

The following table provides an overview of the new data:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Elsevier BV 50 70301 1406
Springer Nature 24 61250 2552
MDPI AG 22 34137 1552
Wiley-Blackwell 8 21353 2669
Informa UK Limited 6 11804 1967
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 6 9879 1646
Frontiers Media SA 5 11673 2335
Oxford University Press (OUP) 5 10382 2076
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 5 9150 1830
JMIR Publications Inc. 3 5861 1954
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2 5094 2547
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2 5064 2532
Acta Dermato-Venereologica 1 1800 1800
American Medical Association (AMA) 1 3223 3223
American Physical Society (APS) 1 1343 1343
American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) 1 3743 3743
BMJ 1 1580 1580
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 3577 3577
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 1 2164 2164
Human Kinetics 1 2222 2222
MyJove Corporation 1 4492 4492
PeerJ 1 1380 1380
Pensoft Publishers 1 609 609
Rockefeller University Press 1 1897 1897
SAGE Publications 1 1346 1346
Society for Neuroscience 1 1300 1300
The Royal Society 1 1126 1126
University of Bern 1 1079 1079
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 2000 2000

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Turku 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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