ETH Zurich reports its 2023 APC expenditures


The ETH Zurich has updated its expenditures, the latest contribution provides data on Gold APCs for the 2023 period.

The ETH Library provides funding for Open Access publishing and kindly provides data on funded articles to OpenAPC.

Contact Person is Marius Stricker.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 387 articles, total expenditure amounts to 841,616€ and the average fee is 2,175€.

The following table provides an overview:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 82 180974 2207
Springer Nature 65 125653 1933
MDPI AG 50 88187 1764
Wiley-Blackwell 42 123336 2937
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 31 62279 2009
Copernicus GmbH 29 49826 1718
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 20 42328 2116
American Physical Society (APS) 15 37053 2470
Oxford University Press (OUP) 10 26998 2700
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 6 21068 3511
Elsevier BV 6 14595 2432
JMIR Publications Inc. 5 12488 2498
American Astronomical Society 3 8946 2982
EMBO 3 13136 4379
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 3 5809 1936
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 3 4726 1575
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2 3628 1814
Optica Publishing Group 2 3635 1818
Wichmann Verlag 2 712 356
American Medical Association (AMA) 1 2822 2822
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) 1 1659 1659
American Society for Microbiology 1 725 725
BMJ 1 2713 2713
European Association of Geochemistry 1 1271 1271
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 2163 2163
Life Science Alliance, LLC 1 3527 3527
The Royal Society 1 1359 1359

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the ETH Zurich 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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