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 1,408 articles published between 2018 and 2022, replacing the previous CSC data. Total expenditure amounts to 2,344,226€ and the average fee is 1,665€.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 450 | 627202 | 1394 |
| Elsevier BV | 295 | 418693 | 1419 |
| Springer Nature | 123 | 254429 | 2069 |
| IEEE | 79 | 123889 | 1568 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 77 | 157519 | 2046 |
| Informa UK Limited | 43 | 98112 | 2282 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 43 | 122238 | 2843 |
| IOP Publishing | 34 | 67686 | 1991 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 25 | 49123 | 1965 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 22 | 59565 | 2708 |
| AIP Publishing | 20 | 49189 | 2459 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 18 | 28248 | 1569 |
| AAAS | 12 | 38369 | 3197 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 11 | 21744 | 1977 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 10 | 25318 | 2532 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 10 | 13450 | 1345 |
| Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | 9 | 6897 | 766 |
| Finnish Society of Forest Science | 9 | 7200 | 800 |
| BioResources | 7 | 9438 | 1348 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 7 | 13528 | 1933 |
| SAGE Publications | 7 | 12410 | 1773 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 5 | 13838 | 2768 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 5 | 7748 | 1550 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 5 | 4478 | 896 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | 3 | 6405 | 2135 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 3 | 1855 | 618 |
| American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) | 3 | 5331 | 1777 |
| Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library | 3 | 1050 | 350 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 3 | 5956 | 1985 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 3 | 5220 | 1740 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 2 | 3556 | 1778 |
| Canadian Science Publishing | 2 | 5800 | 2900 |
| EDP Sciences | 2 | 900 | 450 |
| Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) | 2 | 5364 | 2682 |
| International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) | 2 | 740 | 370 |
| IWA Publishing | 2 | 3286 | 1643 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 2 | 3555 | 1778 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 2 | 898 | 449 |
| 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 of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) | 1 | 1220 | 1220 |
| American Speech Language Hearing Association | 1 | 1812 | 1812 |
| AOSIS | 1 | 742 | 742 |
| ASME International | 1 | 2576 | 2576 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 1 | 1617 | 1617 |
| 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 |
| European Optical Society | 1 | 1605 | 1605 |
| Forest Products Society | 1 | 1500 | 1500 |
| Future Science, LTD | 1 | 1509 | 1509 |
| Human Kinetics | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
| Inderscience Publishers | 1 | 2521 | 2521 |
| Informing Science Institute | 1 | 66 | 66 |
| Inter-Research Science Center | 1 | 2232 | 2232 |
| International Journal of Technology | 1 | 480 | 480 |
| IOS Press | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 1 | 2777 | 2777 |
| Mineralogical Society | 1 | 2643 | 2643 |
| MIS Quarterly | 1 | 1299 | 1299 |
| MyJove Corporation | 1 | 3751 | 3751 |
| NATL TAIWAN UNIV SCI & TECHNOL | 1 | 843 | 843 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 416 | 416 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 1772 | 1772 |
| Science Publishing Group | 1 | 884 | 884 |
| Scientific Societies | 1 | 3000 | 3000 |
| 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)
