The Qatar National Library (مكتبة قطر الوطنية) has updated its cost data, the recent contribution provides APC expenditures for the 2017 to 2021 period.
Contact Person for the QNL is Sarah Abusaada.
Cost data
The new data set provided by the Qatar National Library covers publication fees for 1,827 articles published between 2017 and 2021, this includes 30 articles which had been reported previously. Total expenditure amounts to 3,262,988€ and the average fee is 1,786€.
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Publishers
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elsevier BV | 400 | 851847 | 2130 |
| Springer Nature | 372 | 773990 | 2081 |
| MDPI AG | 201 | 218891 | 1089 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 170 | 297889 | 1752 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 158 | 229453 | 1452 |
| Informa UK Limited | 155 | 365075 | 2355 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 58 | 106794 | 1841 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 48 | 68918 | 1436 |
| S. Karger AG | 43 | 39689 | 923 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 40 | 52487 | 1312 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 32 | 53828 | 1682 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 29 | 52960 | 1826 |
| Emerald | 28 | 53500 | 1911 |
| SAGE Publications | 28 | 9332 | 333 |
| Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) | 10 | 7185 | 719 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 9 | 23071 | 2563 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 8 | 14401 | 1800 |
| BMJ | 7 | 11274 | 1610 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 7 | 6749 | 964 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 5 | 10011 | 2002 |
| Medknow | 4 | 1594 | 398 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 3 | 2341 | 780 |
| EpiSmart Science Vector Ltd | 2 | 680 | 340 |
| IOP Publishing | 2 | 2633 | 1316 |
| Association of Basic Medical Sciences of FBIH | 1 | 595 | 595 |
| Brill | 1 | 1875 | 1875 |
| Institute of Hematology, Catholic University | 1 | 600 | 600 |
| International Scientific Information, Inc. | 1 | 896 | 896 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 1483 | 1483 |
| Royal College of Psychiatrists | 1 | 1716 | 1716 |
| Society of Psychoceramics | 1 | 834 | 834 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 400 | 400 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
