The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain’s largest public research institution, has kindly updated its expenditures, providing data on APCs and on articles published under transformative agreements for the 2024 period.
Contact person is Karina Barros Ferradás.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 143 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 324 424€ and the average fee is 2 269€. 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.
The following table provides an overview of the reported APCs:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 64 | 161880 | 2529 |
| MDPI AG | 25 | 71277 | 2851 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 23 | 49097 | 2135 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 21 | 33880 | 1613 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 7 | 4146 | 592 |
| PeerJ | 3 | 4144 | 1381 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for CSIC now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
