Scuola Normale Superiore reports its 2024 APC, BPC and TA data


The Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS) has updated its expenditures, the latest contribution provides data on APCs and BPCs for the 2024 period as well as articles published under transformative agreements in 2024.

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 67,248€ and the average fee is 2,924€. 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
Springer Nature 5 21706 4341
MDPI AG 3 8714 2905
Elsevier BV 2 6462 3231
Franco Angeli 2 1098 549
Informa UK Limited 2 7637 3819
American Astronomical Society 1 1533 1533
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 3377 3377
American Mathematical Society (AMS) 1 849 849
American Physical Society (APS) 1 4940 4940
Copernicus GmbH 1 1315 1315
Frontiers Media SA 1 1377 1377
Mobilization Journal 1 1385 1385
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 2906 2906
Society for Neuroscience 1 3949 3949

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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