Lib4RI (Library for the Research Institutes within the ETH Domain) collects data on APC expenditures from four Swiss institutes: Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology), Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology), PSI (Paul Scherrer Institute) and WSL (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research).
APC expenditures for the 2023 period have now been made available to OpenAPC.
Contact person is Jochen Bihn.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 100 articles published at Empa, Eawag, WSL and PSI in 2023. Total expenditure amounts to 202,942€ and the average fee is 2,029€. The following tables and plots provide more details.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 27 | 50496 | 1870 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 25 | 62109 | 2484 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 18 | 28892 | 1605 |
| Springer Nature | 8 | 19036 | 2379 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 5 | 11738 | 2348 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 4 | 7695 | 1924 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 3 | 6454 | 2151 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 2 | 4236 | 2118 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 2702 | 2702 |
| Elsevier BV | 1 | 786 | 786 |
| IEEE | 1 | 2108 | 2108 |
| Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften | 1 | 491 | 491 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 1357 | 1357 |
| REABIC | 1 | 1062 | 1062 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 1 | 2287 | 2287 |
| University of California Press | 1 | 1494 | 1494 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
