The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has provided additional APC data for the 202 and 2021 periods.
Within the framework of the SNSF’s OA policy, grantees are required to publish the results of their research in the form of Open Access publications. APC data on those publications is kindly made available to OpenAPC.
Contact Person for the SNSF is Julius Mattern.
Cost data
The updated data set provided by the SNSF covers publication fees for 580 articles published in 2020 and 2021. Total expenditure amounts to 1,272,205€ and the average fee is 2,193€. The following table provides an overview:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 132 | 353380 | 2677 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 122 | 287915 | 2360 |
| MDPI AG | 69 | 96241 | 1395 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 35 | 62990 | 1800 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 26 | 65535 | 2521 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 25 | 38867 | 1555 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 22 | 61310 | 2787 |
| Elsevier BV | 19 | 43159 | 2272 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 14 | 55909 | 3993 |
| BMJ | 10 | 17676 | 1768 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 10 | 21453 | 2145 |
| IOP Publishing | 8 | 14262 | 1783 |
| Informa UK Limited | 7 | 12334 | 1762 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 7 | 11644 | 1663 |
| PeerJ | 7 | 7723 | 1103 |
| SAGE Publications | 6 | 5273 | 879 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 5 | 13656 | 2731 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 5 | 13062 | 2612 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 4 | 6406 | 1602 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 4 | 6097 | 1524 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 4 | 9365 | 2341 |
| The Company of Biologists | 4 | 11290 | 2822 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 3 | 4175 | 1392 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 3 | 5242 | 1747 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 3 | 2363 | 788 |
| AIP Publishing | 2 | 4654 | 2327 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 2 | 5024 | 2512 |
| Joule Inc. | 2 | 4170 | 2085 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 2 | 2828 | 1414 |
| The Royal Society | 2 | 2146 | 1073 |
| Akademiai Kiado Zrt. | 1 | 855 | 855 |
| American Society for Clinical Investigation | 1 | 3116 | 3116 |
| EMBO | 1 | 4574 | 4574 |
| Geological Society of America | 1 | 1955 | 1955 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 1 | 1564 | 1564 |
| Inishmore Laser Scientific Publishing Ltd | 1 | 749 | 749 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 1105 | 1105 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 1658 | 1658 |
| Microbiology Society | 1 | 1520 | 1520 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 763 | 763 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 | 4180 | 4180 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 981 | 981 |
| sub\urban e.V. | 1 | 1497 | 1497 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 117 | 117 |
| University of Bern | 1 | 399 | 399 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 1 | 1023 | 1023 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the SNSF now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
