28 Apr 2022
Chemnitz University of Technology has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period.
Chemnitz University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.
Contact person is Ute Blumtritt.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 58 articles, total expenditure amounts to 102,681€ and the average fee is 1,770€.
The following table shows the payments the Chemnitz University Library has made to publishers in 2021.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
33 |
55353 |
1677 |
Springer Nature |
8 |
17315 |
2164 |
Frontiers Media SA |
6 |
11447 |
1908 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
3 |
6177 |
2059 |
Elsevier BV |
2 |
4251 |
2125 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
2 |
3237 |
1618 |
ARVO |
1 |
1876 |
1876 |
PeerJ |
1 |
1223 |
1223 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
1 |
1027 |
1027 |
SAGE Publications |
1 |
775 |
775 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the TU Chemnitz now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

27 Apr 2022
The University of Mannheim has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2021 period.
The University Library Mannheim manages the university’s institutional Open Access Publication Fund.
Please note that this fund is not supported by the DFG’s Open-Access Publishing Programme (contrary to most German universities participating in OpenAPC), but instead by Mannheim University Library, the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg and the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES).
Contact Person is Philipp Zumstein.
Cost Data
The new data set covers publication fees for 25 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 36 549€ and the average fee is 1 462€.
The following table provides an overview of the new data.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Frontiers Media SA |
18 |
29720 |
1651 |
MDPI AG |
2 |
1983 |
992 |
Springer Nature |
2 |
2181 |
1090 |
University of Bern |
2 |
2070 |
1035 |
IOS Press |
1 |
595 |
595 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Mannheim now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

26 Apr 2022
The University of Duisburg-Essen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period.
Duisburg-Essen University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2014.
Contact persons are Frank Lützenkirchen and Katrin Falkenstein-Feldhoff.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 291 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 492 773€ and the average fee is 1 693€.
The following table shows the payments Duisburg-Essen University Library has made to publishers 2021.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
143 |
242817 |
1698 |
Frontiers Media SA |
67 |
124946 |
1865 |
Elsevier BV |
13 |
18197 |
1400 |
SAGE Publications |
13 |
20836 |
1603 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
9 |
15569 |
1730 |
BMJ |
4 |
7692 |
1923 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
4 |
7409 |
1852 |
American Psychological Association (APA) |
3 |
3279 |
1093 |
Georg Thieme Verlag KG |
3 |
5889 |
1963 |
Informa UK Limited |
3 |
4546 |
1515 |
Springer Nature |
3 |
5307 |
1769 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
2 |
2542 |
1271 |
Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
2 |
3104 |
1552 |
IEEE |
2 |
3615 |
1808 |
Virtus Interpress |
2 |
1580 |
790 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
2 |
2294 |
1147 |
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
1 |
2000 |
2000 |
American Astronomical Society |
1 |
1847 |
1847 |
American Physical Society (APS) |
1 |
1242 |
1242 |
American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) |
1 |
1931 |
1931 |
Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) |
1 |
857 |
857 |
Cogitatio |
1 |
1071 |
1071 |
F1000 Research, Ltd. |
1 |
1308 |
1308 |
FapUNIFESP (SciELO) |
1 |
446 |
446 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
1356 |
1356 |
IOP Publishing |
1 |
1940 |
1940 |
IOS Press |
1 |
1488 |
1488 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
1 |
2038 |
2038 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
1 |
1718 |
1718 |
PAGEPress Publications |
1 |
714 |
714 |
Society of Nuclear Medicine |
1 |
1693 |
1693 |
sub\urban e.V. |
1 |
1500 |
1500 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Duisburg-Essen now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
