The FWF (Austrian Science fund) has updated its data on APC and BPC expenditures as well as articles published under transformative agreements.
Contact person is Katharina Rieck.
Cost Data
The new data set covers APCs for 804 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 1,725,780€ and the average fee is 2,146€. In 2014, the FWF introduced price caps for gold OA (EUR 2500) and for hybrid OA (EUR 1500). Whenever costs exceed those caps, FWF funded authors can use other sources to cover the additional costs. In order to avoid distortions regarding mean values in the OpenAPC data set the FWF set does not include articles where these caps apply and where the additional costs were paid by other sources.
The following tables and plots provide an overview of the reported APC expenditures. Reported cost data on BPCs is not listed here, but they can be inspected in the according BPC treemap section.
Data on transformative agreements can be found either in the OpenAPC TA Treemap (articles only) or the Combined Treemap (includes calculated cost data for agreements).
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 270 | 442802 | 1640 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 183 | 449342 | 2455 |
| Springer Nature | 97 | 276741 | 2853 |
| Elsevier BV | 44 | 125817 | 2859 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 26 | 60788 | 2338 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 17 | 27326 | 1607 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 16 | 43892 | 2743 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 15 | 22924 | 1528 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 15 | 28950 | 1930 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 13 | 34391 | 2645 |
| IOP Publishing | 12 | 22597 | 1883 |
| Informa UK Limited | 10 | 17745 | 1774 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 10 | 17358 | 1736 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 8 | 20685 | 2586 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 7 | 17203 | 2458 |
| AIP Publishing | 5 | 15074 | 3015 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 5 | 20746 | 4149 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 3 | 8211 | 2737 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 3 | 5181 | 1727 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 3 | 6875 | 2292 |
| University of Uludag | 3 | 3626 | 1209 |
| Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften | 3 | 1350 | 450 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 3 | 2800 | 933 |
| American Astronomical Society | 2 | 2482 | 1241 |
| EMBO | 2 | 9720 | 4860 |
| University of Bern | 2 | 1344 | 672 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 712 | 712 |
| American Mathematical Society (AMS) | 1 | 649 | 649 |
| American Meteorological Society | 1 | 1125 | 1125 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 1519 | 1519 |
| Berlin Regener Publishing House | 1 | 266 | 266 |
| Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability | 1 | 1105 | 1105 |
| BMJ | 1 | 1146 | 1146 |
| Brill | 1 | 1487 | 1487 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 2845 | 2845 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 1 | 1922 | 1922 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 1 | 2700 | 2700 |
| IOS Press | 1 | 1530 | 1530 |
| Lexxion Verlag | 1 | 1063 | 1063 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 1 | 2973 | 2973 |
| Mineralogical Society of America | 1 | 1381 | 1381 |
| Open Library of the Humanities | 1 | 384 | 384 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 1 | 3486 | 3486 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1247 | 1247 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 1830 | 1830 |
| Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) | 1 | 504 | 504 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 325 | 325 |
| Schweizerbart | 1 | 1889 | 1889 |
| Shared Science Publishers OG | 1 | 1214 | 1214 |
| Soil and Water Conservation Society | 1 | 708 | 708 |
| SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng | 1 | 1273 | 1273 |
| The Company of Biologists | 1 | 3600 | 3600 |
| Thomas Telford Ltd. | 1 | 924 | 924 |
Overview
With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for the FWF now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
