Scuola Normale Superiore reports its 2022 APC and TA data


The Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2022 period as well as articles published under transformative agreements in 2022.

The SNS Open Access Publishing Fund supports and partially funds OA publishing at the institution.

Contact Person is Donatella Tamagno.

Cost Data

The new data covers publication fees for 23 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 57,076€ and the average fee is 2,482€. Please note that articles published under transformative agreements are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements data set.

The following table provides an overview of the new data:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 6 15394 2566
MDPI AG 4 8859 2215
Frontiers Media SA 3 7480 2493
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 6666 3333
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2 4443 2222
American Astronomical Society 1 476 476
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1382 1382
Elsevier BV 1 5490 5490
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1104 1104
Informa UK Limited 1 2550 2550
Wiley-Blackwell 1 3233 3233

Overview

A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:

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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