The University of Lausanne (UNIL) has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2024 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 104 articles, total expenditure amounts to 228,939€ and the average fee is 2,201€. 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 47 | 104091 | 2215 |
| MDPI AG | 20 | 45156 | 2258 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 11 | 21671 | 1970 |
| BMJ | 8 | 18164 | 2270 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 3 | 4748 | 1583 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 3 | 7334 | 2445 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 3 | 7530 | 2510 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 2 | 5005 | 2503 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 5135 | 2568 |
| Akademiai Kiado Zrt. | 1 | 990 | 990 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 1 | 2705 | 2705 |
| Elsevier BV | 1 | 2757 | 2757 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 1 | 2164 | 2164 |
| Schweizerbart | 1 | 1490 | 1490 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Lausanne now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
