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 1,776 articles published between 2017 and 2023, replacing the previous CSC data. Total expenditure amounts to 3,050,588€ and the average fee is 1,718€.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 528 | 761670 | 1443 |
| Elsevier BV | 325 | 469634 | 1445 |
| Springer Nature | 155 | 331280 | 2137 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 117 | 241995 | 2068 |
| IEEE | 96 | 154364 | 1608 |
| Informa UK Limited | 66 | 154726 | 2344 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 54 | 155156 | 2873 |
| IOP Publishing | 39 | 76148 | 1953 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 38 | 75542 | 1988 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 29 | 78317 | 2701 |
| AIP Publishing | 24 | 57545 | 2398 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 22 | 35709 | 1623 |
| Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | 19 | 18332 | 965 |
| BioResources | 18 | 23180 | 1288 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 17 | 36872 | 2169 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 16 | 18540 | 1159 |
| SAGE Publications | 15 | 26736 | 1782 |
| AAAS | 14 | 44455 | 3175 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | 14 | 31687 | 2263 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 11 | 25539 | 2322 |
| Finnish Society of Forest Science | 10 | 8000 | 800 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 10 | 18396 | 1840 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 9 | 22025 | 2447 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 9 | 14135 | 1571 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 8 | 8398 | 1050 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 7 | 11305 | 1615 |
| Audio Engineering Society | 6 | 5878 | 980 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 4 | 13555 | 3389 |
| The Royal Society | 4 | 6630 | 1658 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 3 | 5003 | 1668 |
| Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library | 3 | 1050 | 350 |
| Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) | 3 | 8577 | 2859 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) | 3 | 5956 | 1985 |
| Intellect | 3 | 3357 | 1119 |
| IOS Press | 3 | 1500 | 500 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 3 | 1181 | 394 |
| Virtus Interpress | 3 | 1650 | 550 |
| American Physiological Society | 2 | 3710 | 1855 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 2 | 3556 | 1778 |
| American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) | 2 | 3369 | 1684 |
| Canadian Science Publishing | 2 | 5800 | 2900 |
| Institute of Mathematical Statistics | 2 | 1115 | 558 |
| International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) | 2 | 740 | 370 |
| IWA Publishing | 2 | 3230 | 1615 |
| MIS Quarterly | 2 | 4754 | 2377 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 2 | 3555 | 1778 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 2 | 1007 | 504 |
| American Astronomical Society | 1 | 4478 | 4478 |
| American Dairy Science Association | 1 | 1560 | 1560 |
| American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) | 1 | 1220 | 1220 |
| American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR) | 1 | 692 | 692 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| EDP Sciences | 1 | 400 | 400 |
| 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 |
| IGI Global | 1 | 2300 | 2300 |
| Inderscience Publishers | 1 | 2471 | 2471 |
| Informing Science Institute | 1 | 66 | 66 |
| Inter-Research Science Center | 1 | 2232 | 2232 |
| International Journal of Technology | 1 | 480 | 480 |
| International Society for Gerontechnology (ISG) | 1 | 600 | 600 |
| JVE International Ltd. | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 1 | 2777 | 2777 |
| MyJove Corporation | 1 | 3751 | 3751 |
| NATL TAIWAN UNIV SCI & TECHNOL | 1 | 843 | 843 |
| North American Business Press | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 416 | 416 |
| REF Press | 1 | 430 | 430 |
| Research Trends, Ltd. | 1 | 478 | 478 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 1429 | 1429 |
| 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 |
| Thomas Telford Ltd. | 1 | 2132 | 2132 |
| University of Georgia | 1 | 340 | 340 |
| University of Pitesti | 1 | 120 | 120 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
