How much did Unimore spend on open access for scientific publications of its researchers from 2015 to 2019? Towards which publishers? How has the expenditure changed over the years?
APCs
710 thousand euros
The total expenditure for scientific publications over the five-year period is 880 thousand euros, of which 710 thousand (80%) is allocated to Article Processing Charges for open access.
Approximately 60 thousand euros have been spent on editorial services related to publication, such as color charges, editing and extra pages.
other types of expence for scientific PUblucations include editorial agreement costs (14 thousand euros) and SUBMISSION FEES (12 thousand euros).
APCs trend
+120%
the expenditure on APCs more than doubled in five years, increasing from 80% of the total publication expenditure in 2015 to 96% in 2019.
in 2015, the APC expenditure was approximately 94,000 euros out of a total of about 120,000 euros, while in 2019 it reached 205,000 euros out of a total of 214,000 euros.
Gold OA
7 publishers account for 52% of the total APCs
Among the top 15 publishers for APCs paid by Unimore, 7 are gold and accoutn fot 52% of the expenditure, 8 are hybrid and account for 22%. The top 3 alone account for 33%.
noteworthy is the growth of the multidisciplinary gold open MDpi and frontiers: they have respectively multiplied their apc revenue from unimore by 10 and 8 times.
among hybrid publishers, elsevier and WILEY are the ones that have experienced the highest growth in APC revenue from UNIMORE: ELsEVIER by a factor of 3, WILEY by 1.5.
OA publications
2,500
Unimore reserahcres have published approximately 2,500 open access contributions, accounting for 18% of the total 14,000 publications.
the percentage of open access publications increase to around 25% when considering only journal contributions: they amount to 2,360 out of 9,500.
OA publications
+75%
The number of open access publications has increased by 75%, while the overall number of publications has increased by 12%.
in 2015, 378 open access publications (out of 2,619), in 2019 663 open access publications (out of 2,927).
Gold OA vs Hybrid OA
5 to 1
For every publication in hybrid open access there are 5 in gold (or diamond) open access.
the ratio between gold and hybrid publications steadily increases over the five years: in 2015 it is 3.6:1; in 2016, 4.4:1; nel 2017, 4.8:1; nel 2018, 4.7:1, nel 2019, 5.1:1.