Lib4RI provides APC data for 2022


Lib4RI (Library for the Research Institutes within the ETH Domain) collects data on APC expenditures from four Swiss institutes: Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology), Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology), PSI (Paul Scherrer Institute) and WSL (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research).

APC expenditures for the 2022 period have now been made available to OpenAPC.

Contact persons are Jochen Bihn and Sarah Last.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 110 articles published at Empa, Eawag, WSL and PSI in 2022. Total expenditure amounts to 204,969€ and the average fee is 1,863€. The following tables and plots provide more details.

Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 20 34099 1705
Frontiers Media SA 9 19711 2190
Springer Nature 4 7322 1831
Copernicus GmbH 3 5037 1679
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2 3081 1541
AIP Publishing 1 2643 2643
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 2774 2774

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 6 10419 1736
Copernicus GmbH 3 5759 1920
Springer Nature 3 6753 2251
MDPI AG 1 2164 2164
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1826 1826
Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) 1 1679 1679
Wiley-Blackwell 1 1942 1942

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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PSI - Paul Scherrer Institute

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 8 13376 1672
Frontiers Media SA 4 9540 2385
Copernicus GmbH 1 651 651
IOP Publishing 1 2227 2227

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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WSL - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 11 23117 2102
Copernicus GmbH 10 17005 1700
Wiley-Blackwell 6 12221 2037
MDPI AG 5 8051 1610
Springer Nature 3 6225 2075
Pensoft Publishers 2 2032 1016
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 3672 1836
Canadian Science Publishing 1 1643 1643

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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