The National Library of Sweden provides cost data for 19 institutions


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

Publication costs for 19 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 1,122 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 2 432 906€ and the average fee is 2 168€.

The data originates from the following institutions:

  • Karolinska Institutet
  • KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  • Swedish Defence University (new)
  • Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
  • University of Gävle
  • Jönköping University
  • Karlstad University
  • Linköping University
  • Linnaeus University
  • Luleå University of Technology
  • Lund University
  • Mälardalen University
  • Malmö University
  • Mid Sweden University
  • Örebro University
  • Södertörns University
  • Stockholm University
  • Uppsala University
  • University West

Overview

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

Breakdown by publisher

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 243 483065 1988
IEEE 160 212537 1328
American Physical Society (APS) 52 121307 2333
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 38 117135 3082
Elsevier BV 35 98182 2805
Stockholm University Press 34 26521 780
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 29 107424 3704
American Astronomical Society 27 54885 2033
Springer Nature 27 101120 3745
BMJ 26 74519 2866
AAAS 25 110994 4440
Informa UK Limited 20 62792 3140
Optica Publishing Group 19 43749 2303
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 19 40444 2129
Oxford University Press (OUP) 18 53128 2952
American Society for Microbiology 17 46992 2764
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 13 16186 1245
AIP Publishing 11 25850 2350
American Medical Association (AMA) 11 51949 4723
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 10 12726 1273
Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library 9 6340 704
European Respiratory Society (ERS) 9 5188 576
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 9 11830 1314
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 8 33370 4171
Frontiers Media SA 7 15840 2263
SAGE Publications 7 21678 3097
American Psychological Association (APA) 6 16102 2684
American Society for Clinical Investigation 6 29627 4938
BioScientifica 6 13984 2331
Bristol University Press 6 10910 1818
Inderscience Publishers 6 12450 2075
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 5 19594 3919
Cappelen Damm AS - Cappelen Damm Akademisk 5 4629 926
EDP Sciences 5 3684 737
Wiley-Blackwell 5 16606 3321
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) 4 5884 1471
American Speech Language Hearing Association 4 7047 1762
Mary Ann Liebert Inc 4 12018 3005
PeerJ 4 8244 2061
Society for Neuroscience 4 10009 2502
The Royal Society 4 8272 2068
Adjacent Digital Politics Ltd 3 12508 4169
Akademiai Kiado Zrt. 3 2587 862
American Meteorological Society 3 5775 1925
American Physiological Society 3 2196 732
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 3 6911 2304
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 3 4680 1560
BioResources 3 3774 1258
British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery 3 3704 1235
CSIRO Publishing 3 6467 2156
DSRPT GbR 3 1630 543
IGI Global 3 5089 1696
International Global Health Society 3 5398 1800
Pensoft Publishers 3 2142 714
Society of Nuclear Medicine 3 8998 2999
Spandidos Publications 3 5354 1785
American Chemical Society (ACS) 2 5393 2697
American Society of Hematology 2 4534 2267
CABI Publishing 2 3457 1728
Caltech Library 2 522 261
Cogitatio 2 2377 1189
Common Ground Research Networks 2 1135 567
Emerald 2 6372 3186
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) 2 3144 1572
Forest Business Analytics sp. z o.o. 2 3395 1698
Geological Society of London 2 5082 2541
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2 6381 3190
Human Kinetics 2 3932 1966
International Institute of Anticancer Research 2 2141 1070
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 2 4311 2156
Life Science Alliance, LLC 2 6832 3416
MIT Press - Journals 2 2521 1261
MyJove Corporation 2 5775 2887
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 4615 2307
Rockefeller University Press 2 3897 1949
Royal College of General Practitioners 2 4721 2360
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health 2 5704 2852
Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM) 2 6183 3092
Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften 2 1207 604
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt 2 3753 1877
AccScience Publishing 1 1504 1504
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) 1 1279 1279
Aging and Disease 1 2560 2560
American Dairy Science Association 1 1188 1188
American Diabetes Association 1 5174 5174
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) 1 2285 2285
American Public Health Association 1 2139 2139
American Society for Horticultural Science 1 2660 2660
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 1 2896 2896
American Thoracic Society 1 1084 1084
American Vacuum Society 1 3199 3199
Association for Health Sciences and Education 1 389 389
Berghahn Books 1 548 548
Bio-Protocol, LLC 1 1080 1080
Brill 1 3020 3020
Canadian Science Publishing 1 2755 2755
Cancer Intelligence 1 1224 1224
Clute Institute 1 1187 1187
Computers, Materials and Continua (Tech Science Press) 1 1600 1600
Copernicus GmbH 1 1798 1798
Council for British Archaeology 1 2091 2091
DiGZ. Digitalen Zugang zu Wissen demokratisch gestalten e.V. 1 692 692
Duke University Press 1 914 914
E.U. European Publishing 1 2199 2199
Edinburgh University Press 1 585 585
Edward Elgar Publishing 1 1975 1975
EJournal Publishing 1 831 831
Equinox Publishing 1 1525 1525
Eurasian Society of Educational Research 1 1114 1114
F1000 Research, Ltd. 1 1459 1459
Future Science, LTD 1 1623 1623
Gavin Publishers 1 3166 3166
Geological Society of America 1 2429 2429
Hogrefe Publishing Group 1 1943 1943
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 1 2726 2726
Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences 1 402 402
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 1 3151 3151
Intellect 1 1714 1714
International Commission for Plant Pollinator Relations 1 248 248
International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research 1 658 658
International Journal of Medical Education 1 1612 1612
International Virtual Ophthalmic Research Center 1 2418 2418
IOS Press 1 2407 2407
Knowledge E DMCC 1 2522 2522
Mark Allen Group 1 1200 1200
MIT Press 1 1395 1395
Modestum Ltd 1 442 442
PAGEPress Publications 1 807 807
Philosophy Documentation Center 1 893 893
Project Muse 1 2978 2978
Project MUSE 1 2519 2519
Radiation Research Society 1 1894 1894
Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 1 3012 3012
S. Karger AG 1 2971 2971
SAE International 1 914 914
Schweizerbart 1 1690 1690
Science Publishing Group 1 967 967
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 1 1014 1014
Scientific Scholar 1 707 707
SLACK, Inc. 1 2994 2994
Symbiosis Group 1 728 728
The Journal of Rheumatology 1 876 876
Tidskriftföreningen Fronesis 1 904 904
Tsinghua University Press 1 2275 2275
University of California Press 1 1667 1667
University of Chicago Press 1 3014 3014
University of Illinois Press 1 1039 1039
University of Johannesburg 1 531 531
University of Wisconsin Press 1 2815 2815
Uppsala Medical Society 1 419 419
Virginia Tech Libraries 1 871 871
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd 1 1993 1993

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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