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?
710 thousand euros for APCs in 2015-2019
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).
+120% expenditure for APCs from 2015 to 2019
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.
Seven gold OA publishers account for 52% of the toal 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.
Methodological note
The data used is the result of a thorough analysis and processing of expences recorded in Unimore’s accounting system for closed financial years.
since specific categories for each type of expenditure were not defined up to 2019, the anlysis started with the identification of publication expenses, followed by classification by type (i.e. apcs, publishing agreements, editorial services). in approximately 10% of cases, classification was not possible: out of 760 recorded expenses (amounting to 880,000 euros), 70 could not be classified (amounting to 75,000 euros).
OA | 2015-2019 | Open access publications @Unimore ↗
How much have Unimore researchers published in the five-year period from 2015 to 2019? And how many of these publications are open acccess?
OA | 2021 | Costs for subscriptions and open access @Unimore ↗
How much did Unimore spend in 2021 to publish contributions from its researchers and to provide them access to scientific literature?