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 person for the National Library is Johan Fröberg.
Cost data
The new data set provided by the National Library covers publication fees for 432 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 827 848€ and the average fee is 1 916€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- BTH Blekinge Institute of Technology
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- University of Borås
- Halmstad University
- Södertörns University
- Stockholm University
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data sets provides the following overview:
Breakdown by publisher
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 151 | 260847 | 1727 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 96 | 213628 | 2225 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 25 | 33464 | 1339 |
| American Dairy Science Association | 10 | 15901 | 1590 |
| Elsevier BV | 10 | 29645 | 2964 |
| IEEE | 10 | 17907 | 1791 |
| Stockholm University Press | 10 | 9764 | 976 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 8 | 13588 | 1699 |
| SAGE Publications | 8 | 7586 | 948 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 7 | 17905 | 2558 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 6 | 10436 | 1739 |
| American Astronomical Society | 5 | 10796 | 2159 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 5 | 12016 | 2403 |
| BMJ | 4 | 13283 | 3321 |
| Informa UK Limited | 4 | 12136 | 3034 |
| Springer Nature | 4 | 7387 | 1847 |
| The Royal Society | 4 | 5035 | 1259 |
| Wageningen Academic Publishers | 4 | 7395 | 1849 |
| AAAS | 3 | 12294 | 4098 |
| American Society for Horticultural Science | 3 | 7050 | 2350 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 3 | 8743 | 2914 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 3 | 8506 | 2835 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 3 | 11812 | 3937 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 3 | 3201 | 1067 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 2 | 6936 | 3468 |
| American Medical Association (AMA) | 2 | 5441 | 2721 |
| Canadian Science Publishing | 2 | 6240 | 3120 |
| Cogitatio | 2 | 1140 | 570 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 2 | 7025 | 3513 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 2 | 1299 | 649 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 2 | 2685 | 1342 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 2505 | 2505 |
| American Mathematical Society (AMS) | 1 | 688 | 688 |
| American Meteorological Society | 1 | 999 | 999 |
| American Physiological Society | 1 | 2739 | 2739 |
| American Psychological Association (APA) | 1 | 2721 | 2721 |
| American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) | 1 | 1109 | 1109 |
| Bristol University Press | 1 | 1636 | 1636 |
| CABI Publishing | 1 | 2069 | 2069 |
| Cappelen Damm AS - Cappelen Damm Akademisk | 1 | 1051 | 1051 |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press | 1 | 3337 | 3337 |
| Common Ground Research Networks | 1 | 628 | 628 |
| CSIRO Publishing | 1 | 2566 | 2566 |
| Emerald | 1 | 1667 | 1667 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 1 | 1362 | 1362 |
| Human Kinetics | 1 | 1814 | 1814 |
| IMR Press | 1 | 2517 | 2517 |
| International Food and Agribusiness Management Association | 1 | 1146 | 1146 |
| International Society for Gerontechnology (ISG) | 1 | 608 | 608 |
| IWA Publishing | 1 | 1853 | 1853 |
| Japan Society for Occupational Health | 1 | 575 | 575 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 1 | 1045 | 1045 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 1 | 1829 | 1829 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1592 | 1592 |
| Retorikforlaget AB | 1 | 78 | 78 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 1596 | 1596 |
| Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health | 1 | 1926 | 1926 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 1 | 568 | 568 |
| Scientific Societies | 1 | 2773 | 2773 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 1765 | 1765 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
