WWU Münster reports its 2021 APC and BPC expenditures

The University of Münster has provided both APC and BPC expenditures for 2021 period.

Münster University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which also supports publishing of OA monographs since 2017.

Contact person is Viola Voß.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 200 articles and 9 books. Total expenditure for articles amounts to 336,862€ and the average APC is 1,684€, while the total expenditures for books is 54,512€ with an average BPC of 6,057€.

The following tables and plots provide an overview of the payments Münster University Library has made to publishers in 2021.

Articles

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 74 130743 1767
MDPI AG 60 103609 1727
Frontiers Media SA 13 20908 1608
Wiley-Blackwell 13 21885 1683
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 8 13468 1684
Informa UK Limited 6 10405 1734
IOP Publishing 3 4016 1339
Joule Inc. 2 3065 1533
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2 2742 1371
SAGE Publications 2 1468 734
University of California Press 2 2000 1000
AME Publishing Company 1 1462 1462
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1243 1243
American Society for Microbiology 1 1922 1922
ARVO 1 1892 1892
BioScientifica 1 1785 1785
British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery 1 1755 1755
Elsevier BV 1 828 828
Ivyspring International Publisher 1 1926 1926
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 1860 1860
Oekom Publishers GmbH 1 298 298
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1942 1942
Schweizerbart 1 1687 1687
Scientific Societies 1 1437 1437
Society for Neuroscience 1 1919 1919
Taiwan Association for Aerosol Research 1 597 597

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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Books

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
transcript Verlag 2 12225 6113
Aschendorff Verlag 1 6058 6058
Beltz 1 3960 3960
Brill 1 7140 7140
Franz Steiner Verlag 1 5458 5458
Peter Lang 1 6720 6720
Routledge 1 7000 7000
Waxmann Verlag 1 5950 5950

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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The National Library of Sweden provides APC data for 3 institutions

The National Library of Sweden collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in Sweden.

APC expenditures for 3 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC.

Contact person for the National Library is Camilla Lindelöw.

Cost data

The new data set provided by the National Library covers publication fees for 292 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 467 348€ and the average fee is 1 601€.

The data originates from the following institutions:

  • Mälardalen University
  • Dalarna University
  • KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Overview

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

Breakdown by publisher

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 137 205051 1497
IEEE 56 79541 1420
Optical Society of America (OSA) 11 18604 1691
Informa UK Limited 8 10198 1275
Elsevier BV 7 18141 2592
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 6 12105 2017
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 5 7956 1591
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 4 5096 1274
JMIR Publications Inc. 4 8033 2008
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 4 3034 758
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) 3 4515 1505
Springer Nature 3 6932 2311
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co, KG 3 1802 601
American Chemical Society (ACS) 2 6523 3261
American Physiological Society 2 5034 2517
ASME International 2 5286 2643
Cogitatio 2 1817 908
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2 4222 2111
Emerald 2 5407 2703
IOP Publishing 2 2972 1486
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 2 5370 2685
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 4899 2449
Project Muse 2 4236 2118
SAE International 2 1282 641
SAGE Publications 2 5163 2582
Aerospace Medical Association 1 1244 1244
AIP Publishing 1 1293 1293
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 3837 3837
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) 1 1738 1738
American Mathematical Society (AMS) 1 631 631
American Society for Microbiology 1 2235 2235
American Vacuum Society 1 1877 1877
Copernicus GmbH 1 1537 1537
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 2531 2531
lnternational Electronic Journal of Elementary Education 1 302 302
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 1 1012 1012
Rockefeller University Press 1 4227 4227
Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM) 1 2461 2461
Society for Neuroscience 1 1862 1862
The Electrochemical Society 1 1072 1072
Wiley-Blackwell 1 4385 4385
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt 1 1887 1887

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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University of Stuttgart reports its 2021 APC expenditures

The University of Stuttgart has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period.

The University Library of Stuttgart (ULS) is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.

Please note that this contribution contains additional articles supported by other funds at University of Stuttgart.

Contact Person is Stefan Drößler.

Cost data

The new data covers publication fees for 129 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 208,010€ and the average fee is 1,612€.

The following table shows the payments the University Library of Stuttgart has made to publishers in 2021.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 76 126229 1661
Springer Nature 13 21909 1685
Frontiers Media SA 9 14367 1596
Optical Society of America (OSA) 6 10745 1791
Elsevier BV 3 5269 1756
Wiley-Blackwell 3 5152 1717
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2 2139 1070
International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) 2 1247 623
IOP Publishing 2 2588 1294
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 3682 1841
AIP Publishing 1 1911 1911
Cogitatio 1 1071 1071
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 1 1852 1852
European Optical Society 1 1609 1609
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 986 986
Informa UK Limited 1 1577 1577
Open Library of the Humanities 1 638 638
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 979 979
The Company of Biologists 1 1821 1821
The Royal Society 1 1371 1371
University of Bern 1 870 870

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Stuttgart 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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