The National Library of Sweden collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in Sweden.
APC expenditures for 3 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, with 1 of them reporting for the first time.
Contact person for the National Library is Camilla Lindelöw.
Cost data
The new data set provided by the National Library covers publication fees for 82 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 139 356€ and the average fee is 1 699€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- BTH Blekinge Institute of Technology (new)
- University of Gothenburg
- University West
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data sets provides the following overview:
Breakdown by publisher
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 31 | 46811 | 1510 |
| IEEE | 10 | 17949 | 1795 |
| Springer Nature | 5 | 11986 | 2397 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 7297 | 2432 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 3 | 10126 | 3375 |
| AAAS | 2 | 6037 | 3018 |
| Acta Dermato-Venereologica | 2 | 3143 | 1571 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 2 | 2346 | 1173 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 2 | 3316 | 1658 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 2 | 2859 | 1429 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 2 | 4389 | 2194 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 1 | 2473 | 2473 |
| American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 1 | 2018 | 2018 |
| BMJ | 1 | 2132 | 2132 |
| Cappelen Damm AS - Cappelen Damm Akademisk | 1 | 1154 | 1154 |
| Central Library of the Slovak Academy of Sciences | 1 | 30 | 30 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 903 | 903 |
| Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library | 1 | 354 | 354 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 1 | 1809 | 1809 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 773 | 773 |
| IMR Press | 1 | 789 | 789 |
| IOP Publishing | 1 | 2382 | 2382 |
| Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) | 1 | 841 | 841 |
| Laser Institute of America | 1 | 1796 | 1796 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 1 | 1627 | 1627 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 450 | 450 |
| Portland Press Ltd. | 1 | 1405 | 1405 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 1308 | 1308 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 1 | 852 | 852 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
