ETH Zurich reports its 2024 APC expenditures


The ETH Zurich has updated its expenditures, the latest contribution provides data on Gold APCs for the 2024 period.

The ETH Library provides funding for Open Access publishing and kindly provides data on funded articles to OpenAPC.

Contact persons are Andrea Moritz and Marius Stricker.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 374 articles, total expenditure amounts to 989,694€ and the average fee is 2,646€.

The following table provides an overview:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 103 329894 3203
Wiley-Blackwell 56 189957 3392
Copernicus GmbH 47 84966 1808
Frontiers Media SA 43 88795 2065
MDPI AG 36 69222 1923
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 25 56234 2249
American Physical Society (APS) 15 44473 2965
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 15 48747 3250
Oxford University Press (OUP) 8 23298 2912
Optica Publishing Group 5 11054 2211
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 3 6663 2221
BMJ 2 5553 2776
Elsevier BV 2 3934 1967
Wichmann Verlag 2 856 428
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 3821 3821
American Society for Microbiology 1 4096 4096
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 1 1299 1299
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 3218 3218
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 1 2498 2498
GigaScience Press 1 400 400
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1645 1645
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 1898 1898
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 2171 2171
The Royal Society 1 1816 1816
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 1230 1230
Western Agricultural Economics Association 1 1956 1956

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the ETH Zurich 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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