University of Siegen reports 2021 data

The University of Siegen has updated its expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period on APCs, BPCs, and hybrid OA articles published under the Springer and Wiley DEAL agreements.

Siegen University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme until 2019.

Contact person for the data set is Lena Vinnemann.

Cost Data

The new APC data set covers publication fees for 21 articles, total expenditure amounts to 39 562€ and the average fee is 1 884€.

The following table provides an overview. Please note that neither articles published in hybrid journals under the DEAL agreement nor BPCs are included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements and BPC datasets, respectively.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 4 4730 1182
MDPI AG 4 6673 1668
Springer Nature 4 9897 2474
Elsevier BV 2 2882 1441
Informa UK Limited 2 5300 2650
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2 3430 1715
IOP Publishing 1 1455 1455
SAGE Publications 1 1232 1232
Wiley-Blackwell 1 3963 3963

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Siegen now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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TU Clausthal reports its 2020 and 2021 APC expenditures

The TU Clausthal has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 and 2021 periods.

The Library of Clausthal University of Technology is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which had been supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2015.

Contact person is Silke Frank

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 71 articles, total expenditure amounts to 119 694€ and the average fee is 1 686€.

The following table shows the payments the library of Clausthal University of Technology has made to publishers in 2020 and 2021:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 55 99227 1804
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 4 4110 1028
Elsevier BV 3 4162 1387
Frontiers Media SA 3 4539 1513
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2 2149 1074
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1325 1325
Biomedical Research Network, LLC 1 761 761
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 2376 2376
IOP Publishing 1 1044 1044

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for TU Clausthal now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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University of Vaasa joins OpenAPC

We welcome the University of Vaasa as new contributing institution!

APC expenditures for the 2021 period have now been made available to OpenAPC by the Tritonia Academic Library.

Contact Person is Anne Lehto.

Cost data

The initial data set covers publication fees for 17 articles published in 2021, total expenditure amounts to 35,856€ and the average fee is 2,109€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Elsevier BV 3 4506 1502
Emerald 3 9571 3190
MDPI AG 3 4556 1519
Wiley-Blackwell 3 9150 3050
Informa UK Limited 2 6190 3095
Brill 1 380 380
Springer Nature 1 1052 1052
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 450 450

Overview

A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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