University of Frankfurt reports its 2021 APC expenditures

13 May 2022

The Goethe University Frankfurt has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2021 period.

The University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme until 2021. The new data also contains Gold OA articles published under the DEAL agreements and decentralized payments.

Contact Person is Roland Wagner.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 482 articles, total expenditure amounts to 921 324€ and the average fee is 1 911€.

The following table provides an overview:

	Articles	Fees paid in EURO	Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG	136	233794	1719
Frontiers Media SA	117	218010	1863
Springer Nature	102	235324	2307
Public Library of Science (PLoS)	23	40003	1739
Elsevier BV	18	31404	1745
Copernicus GmbH	13	21653	1666
Wiley-Blackwell	10	18633	1863
Oxford University Press (OUP)	9	25719	2858
BMJ	8	17885	2236
Informa UK Limited	6	12144	2024
American Physical Society (APS)	4	5516	1379
American Chemical Society (ACS)	3	9683	3228
AIP Publishing	2	7363	3681
Hindawi Publishing Corporation	2	2576	1288
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)	2	3493	1747
MIT Press - Journals	2	2825	1413
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)	2	5007	2504
S. Karger AG	2	4190	2095
SAGE Publications	2	2234	1117
Termedia Sp. z.o.o.	2	400	200
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)	1	2018	2018
American Geophysical Union (AGU)	1	1547	1547
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)	1	1852	1852
Baishideng Publishing Group Inc.	1	1637	1637
California Digital Library (CDL)	1	147	147
Center for Transportation Studies	1	987	987
Geological Society of America	1	1714	1714
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)	1	1904	1904
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)	1	451	451
JMIR Publications Inc.	1	1956	1956
Optical Society of America (OSA)	1	2183	2183
PeerJ	1	1362	1362
Pensoft Publishers	1	1190	1190
Schweizerbart	1	854	854
The Royal Society	1	1285	1285
University of Uludag	1	1785	1785
Walter de Gruyter GmbH	1	595	595

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Frankfurt 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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HHU Düsseldorf joins OpenAPC

11 May 2022

We welcome the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf as new contributing institution!

The University and State Library Düsseldorf (ULB Düsseldorf) is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund.

Contact persons are Thorsten Lemanski and Christin Wacke.

Cost data

The initial data set provided by the HHU Düsseldorf covers publication fees for 105 articles published in 2020, total expenditure amounts to 186,134€ and the average fee is 1,773€. The contribution also provided cost data on articles published in hybrid journals under the DEAL agreement with Springer Nature and Wiley in 2020 which are not included in this list.

	Articles	Fees paid in EURO	Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature	44	90981	2068
MDPI AG	16	28008	1751
Wiley-Blackwell	13	27741	2134
Frontiers Media SA	6	10176	1696
Public Library of Science (PLoS)	5	8371	1674
Walter de Gruyter GmbH	5	2960	592
Pensoft Publishers	3	2106	702
British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery	2	1410	705
Elsevier BV	2	2808	1404
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)	2	1742	871
AME Publishing Company	1	1532	1532
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd	1	2323	2323
F1000 Research, Ltd.	1	541	541
Future Medicine Ltd	1	1372	1372
Oxford University Press (OUP)	1	1331	1331
Royal College of General Practitioners	1	1446	1446
The Royal Society	1	1285	1285

Overview

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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HAW Hamburg joins OpenAPC

11 May 2022

We welcome the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW Hamburg) as new contributing institution!

The University Information and Library Service (HIBS) is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund.

Contact person is Steffen Rudolph.

Cost data

The initial data set provided by the HAW Hamburg covers publication fees for 7 articles published in 2020 and 2021, total expenditure amounts to 10,116€ and the average fee is 1,445€. The contribution also provided cost data on articles published in hybrid journals under the DEAL agreement with Springer Nature and Wiley in 2020 which are not included in this list.

	Articles	Fees paid in EURO	Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG	3	5009	1670
Springer Nature	2	2770	1385
Computers, Materials and Continua (Tech Science Press)	1	679	679
Public Library of Science (PLoS)	1	1658	1658

Overview

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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