University of Lausanne reports its 2024 APC expenditures


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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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