Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena joins OpenAPC

We welcome the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena as new contributing institution!

Data is provided by the Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, which is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund.

Contact person is Lea Satzinger.

Cost data

The initial data set provided by the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena covers publication fees for 695 articles published from 2018 to 2022, total expenditure amounts to 1,324,278€ and the average fee is 1,905€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 243 415936 1712
Springer Nature 152 322028 2119
Frontiers Media SA 121 250471 2070
Wiley-Blackwell 36 72710 2020
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 27 49455 1832
Elsevier BV 20 37970 1898
Optical Society of America (OSA) 14 28538 2038
Oxford University Press (OUP) 8 14845 1856
Copernicus GmbH 7 14207 2030
Informa UK Limited 5 12559 2512
BMJ 4 8661 2165
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 4 7461 1865
sub\urban e.V. 4 3661 915
AIP Publishing 3 6598 2199
Impact Journals, LLC 3 11125 3708
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 3 6157 2052
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 3 4874 1625
PeerJ 3 2960 987
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 3 4228 1409
SAGE Publications 3 3044 1015
The Royal Society 3 4208 1403
American Chemical Society (ACS) 2 2000 1000
American Physical Society (APS) 2 5777 2888
AOSIS 2 1895 947
JMIR Publications Inc. 2 4408 2204
Pensoft Publishers 2 2539 1270
Acta Dermato-Venereologica 1 536 536
Akademiai Kiado Zrt. 1 653 653
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 3932 3932
American Medical Association (AMA) 1 3046 3046
American Society for Microbiology 1 1033 1033
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1649 1649
Berlin Regener Publishing House 1 296 296
e-Century Publishing Corporation 1 1899 1899
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 1 2447 2447
EMBO 1 535 535
Emerald 1 3215 3215
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 831 831
IMR Press 1 1718 1718
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1 900 900
Österreichische Gesellschaft für Entomofaunistik 1 833 833
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research (North Shore LIJ Research Institute) 1 2440 2440

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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IAB reports its 2020 APC expenditures

The IAB (Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period.

The IAB is a research institute and special office of the German Federal Employment Agency.

Contact person for the IAB data is Friedrich Riedel.

Cost Data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 27 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 64,260€ and the average fee is 2,380€.

The following table shows the payments the IAB has made to publishers in 2020.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Oxford University Press (OUP) 10 32818 3282
SAGE Publications 6 4556 759
Informa UK Limited 4 11327 2832
Nomos Verlag 2 5829 2914
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2 4760 2380
Frontiers Media SA 1 2943 2943
GITO mbH Verlag 1 464 464
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1563 1563

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the IAB 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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Couperin.org provides additional APC data for 2 institutions

The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.

APC expenditures for 2 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC.

Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.

Cost data

The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 101 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 154,993€ and the average fee is 1,535€.

The data originates from the following institutions:

  • Université de Montpellier
  • Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle

Overview

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

Breakdown by publisher

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 27 45240 1676
Frontiers Media SA 13 23662 1820
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 11 17453 1587
MDPI AG 10 12914 1291
Wiley-Blackwell 7 12351 1764
Elsevier BV 6 13468 2245
Informa UK Limited 4 2365 591
The Royal Society 4 4536 1134
American Society for Microbiology 2 3382 1691
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 2955 1478
PeerJ 2 1535 768
Pensoft Publishers 2 1195 598
AAAS 1 3527 3527
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 672 672
Association des Amis du Laboratoire des Reptiles et Amphibiens du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle de Paris (AALRAM) 1 90 90
BMJ 1 1485 1485
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 2169 2169
Cell Physiol Biochem Press GmbH and Co KG 1 1500 1500
EDP Sciences 1 300 300
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1858 1858
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 405 405
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 1 1083 1083
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 848 848

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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