The National Library of Sweden collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in Sweden.
APC expenditures for 6 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC.
Contact persons for the National Library are Camilla Lindelöw and Johan Fröberg.
Cost data
The new data set provided by the National Library covers publication fees for 309 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 580 545€ and the average fee is 1 879€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Stockholm University
- Linköping University
- Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences
- University of Borås
- Karlstad University
- University West
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data sets provides the following overview:
Breakdown by publisher
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontiers Media SA | 98 | 212169 | 2165 |
| MDPI AG | 93 | 152347 | 1638 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 12 | 29107 | 2426 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 10 | 19134 | 1913 |
| Cappelen Damm AS - Cappelen Damm Akademisk | 6 | 2162 | 360 |
| IEEE | 6 | 10131 | 1688 |
| Informa UK Limited | 6 | 12146 | 2024 |
| James Nicholas Publishers | 6 | 4763 | 794 |
| SAGE Publications | 6 | 5080 | 847 |
| BMJ | 5 | 12120 | 2424 |
| Springer Nature | 5 | 11236 | 2247 |
| Elsevier BV | 4 | 11240 | 2810 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 4 | 8237 | 2059 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 4 | 4182 | 1046 |
| Stockholm University Press | 4 | 4367 | 1092 |
| AAAS | 3 | 10743 | 3581 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 3 | 5529 | 1843 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 3 | 4844 | 1615 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 3 | 2609 | 870 |
| American Speech Language Hearing Association | 2 | 1800 | 900 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 2 | 3169 | 1585 |
| Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health | 2 | 3531 | 1766 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 2 | 4838 | 2419 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 2 | 6311 | 3156 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 2632 | 2632 |
| American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) | 1 | 2337 | 2337 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 1 | 2575 | 2575 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 2961 | 2961 |
| American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) | 1 | 2073 | 2073 |
| BioResources | 1 | 1437 | 1437 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 3010 | 3010 |
| GeoScienceWorld | 1 | 2072 | 2072 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 2098 | 2098 |
| John Benjamins Publishing Company | 1 | 1758 | 1758 |
| Life Science Alliance, LLC | 1 | 3849 | 3849 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 1 | 3623 | 3623 |
| Medknow | 1 | 620 | 620 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 1 | 1826 | 1826 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 479 | 479 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 | 2378 | 2378 |
| Project Muse | 1 | 2933 | 2933 |
| South Florida Publishing LLC | 1 | 86 | 86 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
