The CSC – IT Center for Science has updated its data, providing more APC and BPC for Finnish HEIs.
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 is made available to OpenAPC where permission was granted by the data providers.
Contact Person for the CSC is Olli Eskola.
Cost data
The updated data set provided by the CSC covers publication fees for 817 articles published between 2018 and 2021 by 10 different institutions, replacing the previous CSC data. Total expenditure amounts to 1,283,013€ and the average fee is 1,570€. The CSC also provided some BPC data for OA monographs (not shown here).
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elsevier BV | 261 | 353126 | 1353 |
| MDPI AG | 238 | 315698 | 1326 |
| IEEE | 68 | 107482 | 1581 |
| Springer Nature | 55 | 104626 | 1902 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 27 | 60655 | 2246 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 26 | 80109 | 3081 |
| Informa UK Limited | 16 | 34865 | 2179 |
| IOP Publishing | 16 | 30757 | 1922 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 13 | 33165 | 2551 |
| AIP Publishing | 12 | 25640 | 2137 |
| AAAS | 7 | 22501 | 3214 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 5 | 7068 | 1414 |
| SAGE Publications | 5 | 7215 | 1443 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 5 | 6970 | 1394 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 4 | 13151 | 3288 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 4 | 6389 | 1597 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 4 | 4491 | 1123 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 3 | 4866 | 1622 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 3 | 1855 | 618 |
| Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | 3 | 1839 | 613 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 3 | 8613 | 2871 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 3 | 4433 | 1478 |
| Finnish Society of Forest Science | 3 | 2400 | 800 |
| BioResources | 2 | 2865 | 1432 |
| EDP Sciences | 2 | 900 | 450 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 2 | 3234 | 1617 |
| Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) | 2 | 5364 | 2682 |
| American Dairy Science Association | 1 | 1560 | 1560 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 643 | 643 |
| American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) | 1 | 1690 | 1690 |
| AOSIS | 1 | 742 | 742 |
| ASTES Journal | 1 | 350 | 350 |
| Audio Engineering Society | 1 | 994 | 994 |
| Canadian Science Publishing | 1 | 3000 | 3000 |
| De Gruyter | 1 | 1190 | 1190 |
| Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library | 1 | 350 | 350 |
| e-Century Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1718 | 1718 |
| Edinburgh University Press | 1 | 1110 | 1110 |
| Emerald | 1 | 2648 | 2648 |
| Future Science, LTD | 1 | 1509 | 1509 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 1 | 1786 | 1786 |
| Mineralogical Society | 1 | 2643 | 2643 |
| MIS Quarterly | 1 | 1299 | 1299 |
| MyJove Corporation | 1 | 3751 | 3751 |
| NATL TAIWAN UNIV SCI & TECHNOL | 1 | 843 | 843 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 416 | 416 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 1 | 467 | 467 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 2493 | 2493 |
| Taiwan Association for Aerosol Research | 1 | 497 | 497 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 257 | 257 |
| University of Georgia | 1 | 340 | 340 |
| Virtus Interpress | 1 | 440 | 440 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
