The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has provided its remaining APC data for the 2021 period.
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 new data set provided by the SNSF covers publication fees for 594 additional articles.
In total, the SNSF paid for 1,038 articles in 2021, with an aggreagted expenditure of 2,299,065€ and an average fee of 2,215€.
The following table provides an overview of all 2021 data:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 242 | 636188 | 2629 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 194 | 458522 | 2364 |
| MDPI AG | 136 | 197878 | 1455 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 53 | 101087 | 1907 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 49 | 80708 | 1647 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 40 | 100470 | 2512 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 33 | 77444 | 2347 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 33 | 79617 | 2413 |
| Elsevier BV | 32 | 85551 | 2673 |
| BMJ | 25 | 50308 | 2012 |
| AAAS | 21 | 76878 | 3661 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 16 | 50543 | 3159 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 16 | 34717 | 2170 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 13 | 23019 | 1771 |
| IOP Publishing | 12 | 21719 | 1810 |
| Informa UK Limited | 11 | 20354 | 1850 |
| SAGE Publications | 11 | 10352 | 941 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 8 | 21248 | 2656 |
| PeerJ | 8 | 9504 | 1188 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 7 | 12057 | 1722 |
| The Royal Society | 6 | 7877 | 1313 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 5 | 12783 | 2557 |
| EMBO | 5 | 23337 | 4668 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 5 | 12150 | 2430 |
| AIP Publishing | 4 | 9386 | 2347 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 4 | 4405 | 1101 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 3 | 4175 | 1392 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 3 | 4607 | 1536 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 3 | 3224 | 1075 |
| The Company of Biologists | 3 | 9795 | 3265 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 3 | 1119 | 373 |
| Akademiai Kiado Zrt. | 2 | 1701 | 850 |
| American Society for Clinical Investigation | 2 | 7526 | 3763 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 2 | 5364 | 2682 |
| Microbiology Society | 2 | 3434 | 1717 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 2 | 2709 | 1355 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 2 | 2407 | 1203 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 2 | 1363 | 681 |
| American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) | 1 | 4492 | 4492 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 1709 | 1709 |
| Canadian Science Publishing | 1 | 971 | 971 |
| Council for British Archaeology | 1 | 1578 | 1578 |
| European Cells and Materials | 1 | 463 | 463 |
| FapUNIFESP (SciELO) | 1 | 73 | 73 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG | 1 | 1564 | 1564 |
| Inishmore Laser Scientific Publishing Ltd | 1 | 749 | 749 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 1105 | 1105 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 1 | 2182 | 2182 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 1658 | 1658 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 1 | 2978 | 2978 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 763 | 763 |
| Polska Akademia Nauk Instytut Paleobiologii (Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences) | 1 | 514 | 514 |
| Portland Press Ltd. | 1 | 2228 | 2228 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 | 4180 | 4180 |
| Seismological Society of America (SSA) | 1 | 1611 | 1611 |
| sub\urban e.V. | 1 | 1497 | 1497 |
| The Electrochemical Society | 1 | 2826 | 2826 |
| University of Bern | 1 | 399 | 399 |
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)
