Charles University has provided data on APC and BPC expenditures for the 2024 period.
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
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 468 articles published in 2023. Total expenditure amounts to 1,245,737€ and the average fee is 2,662€. BPCs are aggregated in OpenAPC’s BPC dataset and are not listed here.
The following table provides an overview of the reported APCs:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 98 | 303602 | 3098 |
| Elsevier BV | 97 | 321916 | 3319 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 40 | 131070 | 3277 |
| MDPI AG | 30 | 85083 | 2836 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 29 | 91275 | 3147 |
| Informa UK Limited | 23 | 67842 | 2950 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 14 | 38224 | 2730 |
| SAGE Publications | 12 | 13547 | 1129 |
| Academia Scientiarum Bohemoslovaca | 7 | 7709 | 1101 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 7 | 16720 | 2389 |
| Czech Geographical Society | 5 | 1789 | 358 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 5 | 12572 | 2514 |
| American Astronomical Society | 4 | 5976 | 1494 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 4 | 7411 | 1853 |
| National Institute of Public Health | 4 | 1129 | 282 |
| PeerJ | 4 | 6922 | 1731 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 4 | 3958 | 989 |
| University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice | 4 | 2420 | 605 |
| AIP Publishing | 3 | 6438 | 2146 |
| International Institute of Anticancer Research | 3 | 3527 | 1176 |
| SCAN, z.s. | 3 | 1452 | 484 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 2 | 8576 | 4288 |
| BMJ | 2 | 5266 | 2633 |
| Česká lékařská společnost Jana Evangelisty Purkyně, z.s. | 2 | 1385 | 693 |
| Czech Botanical Society | 2 | 894 | 447 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 2 | 4478 | 2239 |
| Masaryk University Press | 2 | 121 | 60 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 2 | 6658 | 3329 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 2 | 2858 | 1429 |
| Palacky University Olomouc | 2 | 1382 | 691 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 2 | 4618 | 2309 |
| Termedia Sp. z.o.o. | 2 | 1936 | 968 |
| The Royal Society | 2 | 3867 | 1933 |
| AEPress, s.r.o. | 1 | 363 | 363 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 2360 | 2360 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 1 | 5038 | 5038 |
| American Physiological Society | 1 | 3919 | 3919 |
| Anticancer Research USA Inc. | 1 | 952 | 952 |
| Ariesdue | 1 | 847 | 847 |
| Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. | 1 | 2125 | 2125 |
| BioScientifica | 1 | 2952 | 2952 |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press | 1 | 3359 | 3359 |
| Czech Chemical Society | 1 | 82 | 82 |
| Edizioni Internazionali srl | 1 | 1091 | 1091 |
| EDP Sciences | 1 | 1452 | 1452 |
| Emerald | 1 | 3860 | 3860 |
| EnPress | 1 | 1438 | 1438 |
| Europa Digital & Publishing | 1 | 2978 | 2978 |
| Foundation Pro Scientia Publica | 1 | 544 | 544 |
| Galen, spol. s r.o. | 1 | 385 | 385 |
| IMR Press | 1 | 2469 | 2469 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 1 | 1399 | 1399 |
| International Scientific Information, Inc. | 1 | 3135 | 3135 |
| Ivyspring International Publisher | 1 | 2577 | 2577 |
| John Benjamins Publishing Company | 1 | 2178 | 2178 |
| Journal LOGOS | 1 | 242 | 242 |
| Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group (JNSPG) | 1 | 3359 | 3359 |
| Korean Society for Microbiology and Biotechnology | 1 | 672 | 672 |
| LIDSEN Publishing Inc | 1 | 336 | 336 |
| Maghira & Maas Publications | 1 | 1160 | 1160 |
| Medycyna Praktyczna | 1 | 1699 | 1699 |
| MyJove Corporation | 1 | 908 | 908 |
| PAGEPress Publications | 1 | 726 | 726 |
| Polskie Towarzystwo Kardiologiczne | 1 | 606 | 606 |
| PPHU Projack | 1 | 502 | 502 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 896 | 896 |
| Schweizerbart | 1 | 1803 | 1803 |
| Scientia Socialis Ltd | 1 | 823 | 823 |
| Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM) | 1 | 3695 | 3695 |
| The Endocrine Society | 1 | 779 | 779 |
| Universitas Negeri Semarang | 1 | 139 | 139 |
| University of Chicago Press | 1 | 4713 | 4713 |
| University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw | 1 | 363 | 363 |
| University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius | 1 | 424 | 424 |
| VM Media SP. zo.o VM Group SK | 1 | 672 | 672 |
| Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH | 1 | 302 | 302 |
| World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt | 1 | 2799 | 2799 |
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)
