05 Aug 2022
The University of Erfurt has updated its expenditures, the latest contribution provides data on APCs for the 2021 period as well as on BPCs for 2019 -2021.
Erfurt University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported by the German state of Thüringen (TMWWDG).
Contact person is Martina Schlütter.
Cost Data
The new APC data set covers publication fees for 14 articles, total expenditure amounts to 29 247€ and the average fee is 2 089€.
The following table provides an overview. 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 |
Elsevier BV |
4 |
9334 |
2333 |
Informa UK Limited |
3 |
5475 |
1825 |
MDPI AG |
3 |
5443 |
1814 |
BMJ |
1 |
2018 |
2018 |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |
1 |
2777 |
2777 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
1 |
1630 |
1630 |
SAGE Publications |
1 |
2570 |
2570 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Erfurt now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

05 Aug 2022
The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has provided its APC expenditures for the 2021 period.
The KIT Library is in charge of the Institution’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2018.
Contact person is Doris Jaeger.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 399 articles, total expenditure amounts to 715,997€ and the average fee is 1,794€.
The following table shows the payments the KIT has made to publishers in 2021.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
176 |
271938 |
1545 |
Springer Nature |
79 |
174752 |
2212 |
Frontiers Media SA |
51 |
106626 |
2091 |
Copernicus GmbH |
41 |
71908 |
1754 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
11 |
21497 |
1954 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
8 |
16951 |
2119 |
Elsevier BV |
7 |
10126 |
1447 |
IEEE |
5 |
8024 |
1605 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
5 |
5023 |
1005 |
AIP Publishing |
2 |
2621 |
1311 |
Schweizerbart |
2 |
4119 |
2059 |
AAAS |
1 |
1990 |
1990 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
1 |
1068 |
1068 |
American Physical Society (APS) |
1 |
2000 |
2000 |
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd |
1 |
3193 |
3193 |
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) |
1 |
2380 |
2380 |
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) |
1 |
1695 |
1695 |
IOP Publishing |
1 |
1945 |
1945 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
1 |
3165 |
3165 |
Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation |
1 |
1000 |
1000 |
Norwegian Polar Institute |
1 |
1106 |
1106 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
1584 |
1584 |
The Royal Society |
1 |
1285 |
1285 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

05 Aug 2022
ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the first half of 2022 and some remaining articles for 2021.
The ZHAW library operates an Open Access publication fund which provides support for Open Access publishing, and kindly provides data on funded articles to OpenAPC.
Contact Person is Andrea Moritz.
Cost Data
The new APC data set covers publication fees for 21 articles, total expenditure amounts to 32 624€ and the average fee is 1 554€.
The following table provides an overview of the new data:
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
8 |
10497 |
1312 |
Frontiers Media SA |
6 |
11514 |
1919 |
Springer Nature |
4 |
7285 |
1821 |
Cogitatio |
1 |
883 |
883 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
1 |
1845 |
1845 |
Pensoft Publishers |
1 |
600 |
600 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the ZHAW now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
