University of Lausanne reports its 2023 APC expenditures


The University of Lausanne (UNIL) has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2023 period.

UNIL operates a dedicated Gold OA publication fund.

Contact Person is Dr. Micaela Crespo Quesada.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 130 articles, total expenditure amounts to 263,982€ and the average fee is 2,031€. The data also contained 1 BPC record which is not listed here as BPCs are aggregated in OpenAPC’s BPC dataset.

The following table provides an overview:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 38 90154 2372
Springer Nature 37 77478 2094
MDPI AG 23 41839 1819
Wiley-Blackwell 7 15331 2190
BMJ 3 7080 2360
Oxford University Press (OUP) 3 6297 2099
Akademiai Kiado Zrt. 2 850 425
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2 5116 2558
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2 2481 1240
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2 3232 1616
JMIR Publications Inc. 2 2836 1418
CAIRN 1 300 300
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 791 791
Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences 1 387 387
Elsevier BV 1 1860 1860
Geological Society of America 1 1442 1442
Informa UK Limited 1 2223 2223
Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine 1 1862 1862
SAGE Publications 1 1517 1517
University of California Press 1 907 907

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Lausanne 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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