The University of Ferrara has kindly provided APC and BPC expenditures for the 2025 period.
Institutional contact for the data set is the University’s Bibliometric Office.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 110 articles, total expenditure amounts to 281,066€ and the average fee is 2,555€.
The following table provides an overview of the new data. Please note that BPCs are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s BPC dataset.
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MDPI AG | 25 | 59802 | 2392 |
| Elsevier BV | 18 | 53769 | 2987 |
| Springer Nature | 18 | 60954 | 3386 |
| Informa UK Limited | 10 | 38602 | 3860 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 8 | 18652 | 2332 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 6 | 13165 | 2194 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 5 | 3145 | 629 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 2 | 2152 | 1076 |
| Pàtron Editore | 2 | 2898 | 1449 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) | 1 | 3054 | 3054 |
| AIAP Edizioni | 1 | 300 | 300 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 1 | 2853 | 2853 |
| American College of Physicians | 1 | 850 | 850 |
| American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) | 1 | 637 | 637 |
| American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) | 1 | 710 | 710 |
| BMJ | 1 | 2125 | 2125 |
| Canadian Center of Science and Education | 1 | 423 | 423 |
| IEEE | 1 | 883 | 883 |
| Maad Rayan Publishing Company | 1 | 424 | 424 |
| MJS Publishing, Medical Journals Sweden AB | 1 | 1952 | 1952 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 1 | 5758 | 5758 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 1 | 2058 | 2058 |
| SAGE Publications | 1 | 2899 | 2899 |
| Spandidos Publications | 1 | 1744 | 1744 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 1 | 1257 | 1257 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Ferrara now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
