Lib4RI (Library for the Research Institutes within the ETH Domain) collects data on APC expenditures from four Swiss institutes: Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology), Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology), PSI (Paul Scherrer Institute) and WSL (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research).
APC expenditures for the 2024 period have now been made available to OpenAPC.
Contact person is Jochen Bihn.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 85 articles published at Empa, Eawag, WSL and PSI in 2024. Total expenditure amounts to 173,243€ and the average fee is 2,038€. The following tables and plots provide more details.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copernicus GmbH | 20 | 34410 | 1721 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 18 | 40974 | 2276 |
| MDPI AG | 15 | 33234 | 2216 |
| Springer Nature | 8 | 16680 | 2085 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 7 | 17901 | 2557 |
| EDP Sciences | 3 | 2567 | 856 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 3 | 6077 | 2026 |
| IEEE | 2 | 3469 | 1735 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 3255 | 1627 |
| REABIC | 2 | 2112 | 1056 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 1 | 2626 | 2626 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 1 | 2772 | 2772 |
| BMJ | 1 | 2776 | 2776 |
| Elsevier BV | 1 | 1725 | 1725 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 2664 | 2664 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
