The National Library of Sweden provides cost data for 9 institutions


The National Library of Sweden collects data on APC and BPC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in Sweden.

Publication costs for 9 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC.

Contact person for the National Library is Johan Fröberg.

Cost data

The new data set provided by the National Library covers publication fees for 54 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 137 433€ and the average fee is 2 545€.

The data originates from the following institutions:

  • BTH Blekinge Institute of Technology
  • Stockholm School of Economics
  • Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences
  • University of Borås
  • Dalarna University
  • University of Gothenburg
  • Halmstad University
  • Kristianstad University
  • University of Skövde

Overview

A detailed analysis of the contributed data sets provides the following overview:

Breakdown by publisher

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
IEEE 10 19132 1913
MDPI AG 10 21350 2135
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 3 8088 2696
SAGE Publications 3 10877 3626
Elsevier BV 2 4984 2492
Emerald 2 6591 3296
Human Kinetics 2 5541 2771
Informa UK Limited 2 4837 2418
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 2 5492 2746
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 4071 2035
American Medical Association (AMA) 1 3190 3190
AOSIS 1 849 849
Cappelen Damm AS - Cappelen Damm Akademisk 1 169 169
Forest Business Analytics sp. z o.o. 1 2476 2476
Frontiers Media SA 1 3250 3250
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 3208 3208
Inderscience Publishers 1 2142 2142
Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group (JNSPG) 1 2540 2540
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Library 1 452 452
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 4396 4396
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 5417 5417
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health 1 3182 3182
Springer Nature 1 11258 11258
Stockholm University Press 1 892 892
Verlag Barbara Budrich GmbH 1 664 664
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 2385 2385

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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