The CSC – IT Center for Science has updated its data, providing more APC data 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 Ville Hämäläinen.
Cost data
The updated data set provided by the CSC covers publication fees for 1,246 articles published between 2018 and 2022, replacing the previous CSC data. Total expenditure amounts to 2,054,507€ and the average fee is 1,649€.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 417 | 575310 | 1380 |
| Elsevier BV | 264 | 378254 | 1433 |
| Springer Nature | 101 | 215902 | 2138 |
| IEEE | 78 | 123316 | 1581 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 58 | 112062 | 1932 |
| Informa UK Limited | 38 | 86876 | 2286 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 37 | 106518 | 2879 |
| IOP Publishing | 34 | 67686 | 1991 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 22 | 45425 | 2065 |
| AIP Publishing | 19 | 47899 | 2521 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 16 | 25454 | 1591 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 14 | 35733 | 2552 |
| AAAS | 10 | 31008 | 3101 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 9 | 21328 | 2370 |
| Finnish Society of Forest Science | 9 | 7200 | 800 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 9 | 19175 | 2131 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 8 | 10830 | 1354 |
| BioResources | 7 | 9438 | 1348 |
| Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | 6 | 4326 | 721 |
| SAGE Publications | 6 | 9860 | 1643 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 5 | 13838 | 2768 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 5 | 8775 | 1755 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 5 | 4478 | 896 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 4 | 5973 | 1493 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 4 | 5710 | 1428 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | 3 | 6405 | 2135 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 3 | 1855 | 618 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 3 | 5956 | 1985 |
| American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) | 2 | 3249 | 1624 |
| Canadian Science Publishing | 2 | 5800 | 2900 |
| Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library | 2 | 700 | 350 |
| EDP Sciences | 2 | 900 | 450 |
| International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) | 2 | 740 | 370 |
| IWA Publishing | 2 | 3286 | 1643 |
| The Royal Society | 2 | 2043 | 1022 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 2 | 1007 | 504 |
| Virtus Interpress | 2 | 1000 | 500 |
| American Dairy Science Association | 1 | 1560 | 1560 |
| American Physiological Society | 1 | 1021 | 1021 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 2913 | 2913 |
| American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) | 1 | 1220 | 1220 |
| ASME International | 1 | 2576 | 2576 |
| ASTES Journal | 1 | 350 | 350 |
| Audio Engineering Society | 1 | 994 | 994 |
| Austin Publishing Group | 1 | 1046 | 1046 |
| BMJ | 1 | 2728 | 2728 |
| Computers, Materials and Continua (Tech Science Press) | 1 | 1190 | 1190 |
| Consulting and Training Center Key | 1 | 100 | 100 |
| De Gruyter | 1 | 1190 | 1190 |
| e-Century Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1718 | 1718 |
| EARLI | 1 | 200 | 200 |
| Edinburgh University Press | 1 | 1110 | 1110 |
| Emerald | 1 | 2648 | 2648 |
| Equinox Publishing | 1 | 1841 | 1841 |
| Human Kinetics | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| Inderscience Publishers | 1 | 2521 | 2521 |
| Informing Science Institute | 1 | 66 | 66 |
| Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) | 1 | 2599 | 2599 |
| International Journal of Technology | 1 | 480 | 480 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 1 | 2777 | 2777 |
| Mineralogical Society | 1 | 2643 | 2643 |
| MyJove Corporation | 1 | 3751 | 3751 |
| NATL TAIWAN UNIV SCI & TECHNOL | 1 | 843 | 843 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 416 | 416 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 1772 | 1772 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 1 | 431 | 431 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 2493 | 2493 |
| sPage.direcT | 1 | 650 | 650 |
| Stockholm University Press | 1 | 508 | 508 |
| Taiwan Association for Aerosol Research | 1 | 497 | 497 |
| University of Georgia | 1 | 340 | 340 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
