The ETH Zurich has updated its expenditures, the latest contribution provides data on Gold APCs for the 2025 period.
The ETH Library provides funding for Open Access publishing and kindly provides data on funded articles to OpenAPC.
Contact persons are Andrea Moritz and Marius Stricker.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 407 articles, total expenditure amounts to 1,438,329€ and the average fee is 3,534€.
The following table provides an overview:
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 186 | 903041 | 4855 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 51 | 82420 | 1616 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 41 | 122387 | 2985 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 19 | 54623 | 2875 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 19 | 45548 | 2397 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 13 | 38187 | 2937 |
| MDPI AG | 13 | 25798 | 1984 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 9 | 27737 | 3082 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 8 | 21837 | 2730 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 7 | 17165 | 2452 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 6 | 15755 | 2626 |
| Optica Publishing Group | 6 | 12799 | 2133 |
| American Astronomical Society | 4 | 12454 | 3113 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 4 | 9675 | 2419 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 3 | 12502 | 4167 |
| Elsevier BV | 3 | 5704 | 1901 |
| AIP Publishing | 2 | 5270 | 2635 |
| MIT Press - Journals | 2 | 2300 | 1150 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 2 | 3647 | 1823 |
| American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) | 1 | 1917 | 1917 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 1 | 4121 | 4121 |
| BMJ | 1 | 2995 | 2995 |
| EDP Sciences | 1 | 1351 | 1351 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 1 | 4282 | 4282 |
| MIT Press | 1 | 1342 | 1342 |
| Resilience Alliance, Inc. | 1 | 1054 | 1054 |
| Seismological Society of America (SSA) | 1 | 1988 | 1988 |
| Wichmann Verlag | 1 | 432 | 432 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the ETH Zurich now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
