Charles University has provided data on APC and BPC expenditures for the 2023 period as well as articles published under transformative agreements in 2023/2024.
The Charles University Library collects data on Open Access publishing fees paid for by faculties budgets at Charles University and kindly provides this data to OpenAPC.
Contact person is Yuliia Leshchenko.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 394 articles published in 2023. Total expenditure amounts to 954,406€ and the average fee is 2,422€. 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. BPCs are aggregated in OpenAPC’s BPC dataset and are not listed here either.
The following table provides an overview of the reported APCs:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 73 | 156059 | 2138 |
| Springer Nature | 71 | 193776 | 2729 |
| Elsevier BV | 47 | 152306 | 3241 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 46 | 136753 | 2973 |
| Informa UK Limited | 15 | 33025 | 2202 |
| SCAN, z.s. | 11 | 4294 | 390 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 10 | 31609 | 3161 |
| American Astronomical Society | 9 | 15926 | 1770 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 9 | 45181 | 5020 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 9 | 19330 | 2148 |
| Academia Scientiarum Bohemoslovaca | 8 | 9860 | 1232 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 5 | 11557 | 2311 |
| Palacky University Olomouc | 5 | 3276 | 655 |
| BMJ | 4 | 18631 | 4658 |
| Spandidos Publications | 4 | 8858 | 2215 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 4 | 4331 | 1083 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 3 | 8771 | 2924 |
| Future Science, LTD | 3 | 10367 | 3456 |
| Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in Usti nad Labem | 3 | 920 | 307 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 3 | 7035 | 2345 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 3 | 8211 | 2737 |
| SAGE Publications | 3 | 3670 | 1223 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 2 | 3888 | 1944 |
| Anticancer Research USA Inc. | 2 | 1992 | 996 |
| Microbiology Society | 2 | 5994 | 2997 |
| National Institute of Public Health | 2 | 480 | 240 |
| Termedia Sp. z.o.o. | 2 | 2030 | 1015 |
| AEPress, s.r.o. | 1 | 905 | 905 |
| AIP Publishing | 1 | 2973 | 2973 |
| AME Publishing Company | 1 | 1551 | 1551 |
| American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) | 1 | 4887 | 4887 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 3046 | 3046 |
| American Meteorological Society | 1 | 1251 | 1251 |
| Amsterdam University Press | 1 | 1214 | 1214 |
| BioScientifica | 1 | 2551 | 2551 |
| Brill | 1 | 2778 | 2778 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) | 1 | 514 | 514 |
| Center of Biomass and Renewable Energy Scientia Academy | 1 | 331 | 331 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 1 | 2483 | 2483 |
| Czech Geographical Society | 1 | 368 | 368 |
| Edizioni Minerva Medica | 1 | 1825 | 1825 |
| Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences | 1 | 871 | 871 |
| Foundation Pro Scientia Publica | 1 | 346 | 346 |
| Institute of Philosophy, CAS | 1 | 403 | 403 |
| International Scientific Information, Inc. | 1 | 3069 | 3069 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 1 | 3724 | 3724 |
| Journal LOGOS | 1 | 243 | 243 |
| Korean Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - BMB Reports | 1 | 1234 | 1234 |
| Montenegrin Sports Academy | 1 | 255 | 255 |
| PeerJ | 1 | 1763 | 1763 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 1 | 473 | 473 |
| Polskie Towarzystwo Kardiologiczne | 1 | 495 | 495 |
| PPHU Projack | 1 | 376 | 376 |
| Probiologists Limited | 1 | 1456 | 1456 |
| Quintessence Publishing | 1 | 1513 | 1513 |
| Rockefeller University Press | 1 | 2301 | 2301 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 1 | 3861 | 3861 |
| The Royal Society | 1 | 1742 | 1742 |
| University of Chicago Press | 1 | 2664 | 2664 |
| University of Pitesti | 1 | 181 | 181 |
| University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice | 1 | 197 | 197 |
| University of Uludag | 1 | 1830 | 1830 |
| Via Medica | 1 | 603 | 603 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Charles University now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
