We welcome the CSC – IT Center for Science as new contributing institution!
The CSC is a non-profit government enterprise which provides IT support and services to Finnish academia and research institutes. It operates VIRTA, a centralized service tasked with collecting publication data from HEIs. VIRTA may also optionally collect cost data on OA publishing (APCs and BPCs), this data has now been made available to OpenAPC where permission was granted by the data providers.
Contact Person for the CSC is Olli Eskola.
Cost data
The initial data set provided by the CSC covers publication fees for 183 articles published between 2018 and 2021 by 9 different institutions, total expenditure amounts to 285,103€ and the average fee is 1,558€. The CSC also provided BPC data for 7 OA monographs (not shown here).
The following institutions are providing data to OpenAPC for the first time:
- Natural Resources Institute Finland
- University of Applied Sciences Savonia
- SAMK Satakunta University of Applied Sciences
- JAMK University of Applied Sciences
- Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences
- VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd
- Häme University of Applied Sciences
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elsevier BV | 53 | 63927 | 1206 |
| MDPI AG | 43 | 61832 | 1438 |
| Springer Nature | 21 | 36751 | 1750 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 16 | 38922 | 2433 |
| Informa UK Limited | 9 | 19151 | 2128 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 5 | 7028 | 1406 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 5 | 13448 | 2690 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 3 | 7193 | 2398 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 2 | 2569 | 1284 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 2 | 2718 | 1359 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 2 | 2636 | 1318 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 1290 | 1290 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 3667 | 3667 |
| American Dairy Science Association | 1 | 1560 | 1560 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 643 | 643 |
| AOSIS | 1 | 742 | 742 |
| ASTES Journal | 1 | 350 | 350 |
| De Gruyter | 1 | 1190 | 1190 |
| Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library | 1 | 350 | 350 |
| e-Century Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1718 | 1718 |
| EDP Sciences | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| Finnish Society of Forest Science | 1 | 800 | 800 |
| Future Science, LTD | 1 | 1509 | 1509 |
| Genetics Society of America | 1 | 1840 | 1840 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 2038 | 2038 |
| Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) | 1 | 2765 | 2765 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 2250 | 2250 |
| MIS Quarterly | 1 | 1299 | 1299 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 2550 | 2550 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 1 | 467 | 467 |
| University of Georgia | 1 | 340 | 340 |
| Virtus Interpress | 1 | 440 | 440 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 620 | 620 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
