University of Rhode Island reports 2021 and 2022 APC expenditures


The University of Rhode Island (URI) has updated its APC expenditures, the recent contribution provides cost data on APCs paid between March 2021 and August 2022.

The URI University Libraries operate the University’s Open Access Fund, which underwrites publication fees for articles published in eligible open access journals.

Contact Person is Andrée Rathemacher.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 12 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 19 661€ and the average fee is 1 638€.

The following table provides an overview of the new data:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 4 6715 1679
Elsevier BV 2 4274 2137
MDPI AG 2 3698 1849
Springer Nature 2 2466 1233
Informa UK Limited 1 1509 1509
SAGE Publications 1 999 999

With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for the URI now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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