The costs for going Gold in the Netherlands

Wouter Gerritsma, Wageningen UR Library

Publication output Nl in WoS and Scopus

Open Access articles and reviews in NL

Share of OA arts. and rev. in WoS in NL

Who publishes OA articles & Reviews in Nl

Open Access Articles Nl in Narcis and WoS

APC in 2013 in WoS

3314 articles in journals with APC

●Average APC in paid journals € 1220 (ex. VAT)

404 articles in journals without APC

●Average APC overall € 1087 (ex. VAT)

Trend in APC for the Netherlands in WoS covered journals

Estimated costs per OA publisher in WoS covered journals (2009-2013)

Publisher No art total per Article

BMC-Springer 5079 € 7,969,070.85 € 1,569.02

Public Library of Science 4393 € 4,920,346.00 € 1,120.04

Oxford University Press 543 € 1,069,844.20 € 1,970.25

Optical Society of America 518 € 602,896.78 € 1,163.89

European Geosciences Union 1267 € 594,666.03 € 469.35

European Hematology Association 268 € 415,400.00 € 1,550.00

Frontiers 226 € 394,149.42 € 1,744.02

Nature Publishing Group 182 € 373,612.00 € 2,052.81

MDPI 327 € 268,374.66 € 820.72

Hindawi 255 € 246,776.50 € 967.75

To consider

Some 50% of Dutch publication output are result of international collaboration

Costs are largely based on http://www.eigenfactor.org/openaccess/ (APC ca. 2012) BMC showed a steep APC price increase

Most prices are ex VAT

WoS underestimates OA article output

●718 OA journals indexed in WoS out of ca. 10500 journals indexed in WoS in total

●9744 OA journals registered in DOAJ

The costs of 100% Gold in PY 2014

40.000 articles & reviews in 2014

APC € 1087,-

€ 43,480,000,- ex VAT

Current subscription costs for Dutch Universities amount €34,000,000,-

Extra costs for total Gold OA € 10,500,000,-

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