The FWF (Austrian Science fund) has updated its data on APC and BPC expenditures as well as articles published under transformative agreements.
Contact person is Katharina Rieck.
Cost Data
The new data set covers APCs for 682 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 1,302,069€ and the average fee is 1,909€. In 2014, the FWF introduced price caps for gold OA (EUR 2500) and for hybrid OA (EUR 1500). Whenever costs exceed those caps, FWF funded authors can use other sources to cover the additional costs. In order to avoid distortions regarding mean values in the OpenAPC data set the FWF set does not include articles where these caps apply and where the additional costs were paid by other sources.
The following tables and plots provide an overview of the reported APC expenditures. Reported cost data on BPCs is not listed here, but they can be inspected in the according BPC treemap section.
Data on transformative agreements can be found either in the OpenAPC TA Treemap (articles only) or the Combined Treemap (includes calculated cost data for agreements).
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 266 | 386070 | 1451 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 130 | 318128 | 2447 |
| Springer Nature | 96 | 200942 | 2093 |
| Elsevier BV | 51 | 135535 | 2658 |
| IOP Publishing | 20 | 39262 | 1963 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 12 | 29130 | 2428 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 10 | 19235 | 1923 |
| Informa UK Limited | 9 | 9771 | 1086 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 8 | 13644 | 1706 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 8 | 12905 | 1613 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 8 | 19096 | 2387 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 5 | 8251 | 1650 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 5 | 8455 | 1691 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 4 | 7687 | 1922 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 3 | 6971 | 2324 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 3 | 6462 | 2154 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 3 | 2814 | 938 |
| The Royal Society | 3 | 5472 | 1824 |
| AIP Publishing | 2 | 5062 | 2531 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 2 | 3263 | 1632 |
| American Society of Hematology | 2 | 6592 | 3296 |
| Cell Physiol Biochem Press GmbH and Co KG | 2 | 3570 | 1785 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 2 | 3618 | 1809 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 2 | 3941 | 1970 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 2 | 6413 | 3206 |
| Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) | 2 | 1008 | 504 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 2 | 4380 | 2190 |
| Aging and Disease | 1 | 1823 | 1823 |
| American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) | 1 | 4337 | 4337 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 1391 | 1391 |
| American Meteorological Society | 1 | 1171 | 1171 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 1731 | 1731 |
| Herpetologists League | 1 | 1825 | 1825 |
| International Global Health Society | 1 | 1089 | 1089 |
| Norwegian Polar Institute | 1 | 948 | 948 |
| Open Access Text Pvt, Ltd. | 1 | 2981 | 2981 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 669 | 669 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 893 | 893 |
| Philosophy Documentation Center | 1 | 720 | 720 |
| Portland Press Ltd. | 1 | 1144 | 1144 |
| Royal College of Psychiatrists | 1 | 3438 | 3438 |
| Scientific Societies | 1 | 1578 | 1578 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 2388 | 2388 |
| SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng | 1 | 1164 | 1164 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 1044 | 1044 |
| University of Wisconsin Press | 1 | 1781 | 1781 |
| World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt | 1 | 2276 | 2276 |
Overview
With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for the FWF now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
