Summary of Article Processing Charges (APCs) and Open Access Journals produced by Major
Publishers
Type of
publisher
Traditional/
Hybrid
Publisher
APC charged
Notes
Elsevier
$3000-$5000
Traditional/
Hybrid
Taylor and
Francis
£1,788
Elsevier have a list of 1500 journal titles that are
“Hybrid Journals” with what they call “Sponsored
articles” http://www.elsevier.com/about/openaccess/sponsored-articles#make-your-article-oa
The list includes titles like Aquaculture. Costs at:
http://www.elsevier.com/about/openaccess/sponsored-articles#publication-costs .
http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/Ope
nAccess.asp
http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/Ope
nAccess.asp#link2
Traditional/
Hybrid
Sage
£800 to £1600
Traditional/
Hybrid
Springer – via
Springer Open
Choice
Oxford Open
initiative
$3000 majority of their
journals offer this as an
option
£1700
Traditional/
Hybrid
Royal Society
£1200 - £1400
Publish 9 journals – 8 sub-based and 1 fully open
access
http://royalsocietypublishing.org/site/authors/ope
n_access.xhtml
Open
Public Library of
Science(PloS) –
$1350 - $2900
Publish 7 journals
http://www.plos.org/publish/pricingpolicy/publication-fees/
Open
BioMed Central
(BMC)
£795 - £1515
Open
Bentham Open
$450 - $900
Open
Frontiers
Research
Foundation
MDPI Open
Access Journals
575 euros to 2,00 euros
Publish 243 journals
http://www.biomedcentral.com/about/apcfaq/ho
wmuch
Publish 230 open access journals
http://www.benthamscience.com/open/toacoj/Fe
e%20Form.pdf
In partnership with Nature
14 titles
http://www.frontiersin.org/about/PublishingFees
Publish in 700 http://www.mdpi.com/about/apc/
Traditional/
Hybrid
Open
free to 1800 swiss francs
Sage have announced that they do not impose any
embargo period upon deposit of papers in
institutional repositories
http://www.uk.sagepub.com/sagechoice.sp
http://www.springer.com/open+access?SGWID=0169302-0-0-0
Publish 90 journals – full open access and hybrid
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/oxfordopen
New developments
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Social Sciences Directory http://www.socialsciencesdirectory.com/index.php/socscidir
Membership £2000 per annum – no APCs. Otherwise APC £100 plus VAT. Any social
sciences discipline
Humanities Directory. Humanities Directory features reports of original research from all
disciplines within arts & humanities. Membership £2000 per annum – no APCs. Otherwise
APC £100 plus VAT.
Wiley Open Access Membership or partners options: £12,800 to £3200. Otherwise APC £1000 - £2000
Sage – draft SHEDL deal enabes authors to publish in SAGE Premier 2013 collection for an
APC of £200. Sage have announced that they do not impose any embargo period upon
deposit of papers in institutional repositories
Last updated: 1 April 2013