30 Jun 2022
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)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

29 Jun 2022
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)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

28 Jun 2022
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)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
