The National Library of Sweden collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in Sweden.
APC expenditures for 2 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC.
Contact person for the National Library is Camilla Lindelöw.
Cost data
The new data set provided by the National Library covers publication fees for 147 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 232 277€ and the average fee is 1 580€. The contribution also contained BPC data for one OA monograph which is not listed here.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Södertörns University
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 | 89 | 128624 | 1445 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 10 | 15839 | 1584 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 7 | 12337 | 1762 |
| Springer Nature | 7 | 15168 | 2167 |
| Informa UK Limited | 4 | 7019 | 1755 |
| Canadian Science Publishing | 3 | 6408 | 2136 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 3 | 3925 | 1308 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 6207 | 2069 |
| Wageningen Academic Publishers | 3 | 5274 | 1758 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 3 | 9454 | 3151 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 2 | 1988 | 994 |
| The Royal Society | 2 | 4018 | 2009 |
| American Dairy Science Association | 1 | 1312 | 1312 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 956 | 956 |
| BioScientifica | 1 | 1650 | 1650 |
| BMJ | 1 | 2538 | 2538 |
| Finnish Society of Forest Science | 1 | 800 | 800 |
| Hogrefe Publishing Group | 1 | 2542 | 2542 |
| Information Society Research | 1 | 932 | 932 |
| Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Library | 1 | 494 | 494 |
| Philosophy Documentation Center | 1 | 602 | 602 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 2620 | 2620 |
| University of Wisconsin Press | 1 | 1570 | 1570 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
