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 1,869 articles published between 2017 and 2023, replacing the previous CSC data. Total expenditure amounts to 3,232,485€ and the average fee is 1,730€.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 551 | 798970 | 1450 |
| Elsevier BV | 334 | 481534 | 1442 |
| Springer Nature | 167 | 355363 | 2128 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 130 | 267360 | 2057 |
| IEEE | 97 | 156517 | 1614 |
| Informa UK Limited | 72 | 169602 | 2356 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 60 | 170171 | 2836 |
| 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) | 24 | 39828 | 1660 |
| Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | 19 | 18332 | 965 |
| BioResources | 19 | 24485 | 1289 |
| SAGE Publications | 19 | 38075 | 2004 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 18 | 24015 | 1334 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 17 | 36872 | 2169 |
| AAAS | 15 | 47964 | 3198 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | 14 | 31687 | 2263 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 13 | 32977 | 2537 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 10 | 24462 | 2446 |
| Finnish Society of Forest Science | 10 | 8000 | 800 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 10 | 18396 | 1840 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 9 | 14135 | 1571 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 9 | 9218 | 1024 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 7 | 11305 | 1615 |
| Audio Engineering Society | 6 | 5878 | 980 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 5 | 15581 | 3116 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 4 | 6003 | 1501 |
| The Royal Society | 4 | 6141 | 1535 |
| Virtus Interpress | 4 | 2130 | 532 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 3 | 7177 | 2392 |
| 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 |
| American Dairy Science Association | 2 | 4620 | 2310 |
| American Physiological Society | 2 | 5311 | 2656 |
| American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) | 2 | 3369 | 1684 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 2 | 3467 | 1734 |
| Canadian Science Publishing | 2 | 5800 | 2900 |
| EDP Sciences | 2 | 2005 | 1002 |
| 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 |
| sPage.direcT | 2 | 1504 | 752 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 2 | 1007 | 504 |
| American Astronomical Society | 1 | 4478 | 4478 |
| 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 |
| ASTES Journal | 1 | 350 | 350 |
| Austin Publishing Group | 1 | 1046 | 1046 |
| BMJ | 1 | 2728 | 2728 |
| Center for Transportation Studies | 1 | 951 | 951 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 1 | 1479 | 1479 |
| 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 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 2493 | 2493 |
| 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 |
| University of Uludag | 1 | 1330 | 1330 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
