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)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
