18 Mar 2022
The German Aerospace Center (DLR - Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) has provided its APC expenditures for the 2021 period.
The DLR Library is responsible for compiling data sets on institutional APC expenditures and kindly provides them to OpenAPC.
Contact Person is Martin Wimmer.
Cost data
The new data sets cover publication fees for 333 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 552,546€ and the average fee is 1,659€.
The following table provides an overview:
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| MDPI AG |
124 |
175364 |
1414 |
| Elsevier BV |
45 |
116050 |
2579 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
41 |
53503 |
1305 |
| Copernicus GmbH |
35 |
56236 |
1607 |
| Frontiers Media SA |
28 |
46942 |
1676 |
| Springer Nature |
12 |
16494 |
1375 |
| American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) |
7 |
11731 |
1676 |
| EDP Sciences |
4 |
3200 |
800 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
4 |
8465 |
2116 |
| American Meteorological Society |
3 |
2784 |
928 |
| American Physical Society (APS) |
3 |
6280 |
2093 |
| Informa UK Limited |
3 |
6630 |
2210 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) |
3 |
5200 |
1733 |
| IOP Publishing |
3 |
6740 |
2247 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) |
3 |
4761 |
1587 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
3 |
6380 |
2127 |
| AIP Publishing |
2 |
5896 |
2948 |
| American Astronomical Society |
2 |
3955 |
1978 |
| ASME International |
2 |
5009 |
2505 |
| Acoustical Society of America (ASA) |
1 |
1806 |
1806 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
1 |
4496 |
4496 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) |
1 |
1512 |
1512 |
| Oekom Publishers GmbH |
1 |
250 |
250 |
| Schweizerbart |
1 |
1718 |
1718 |
| Wiley-Blackwell |
1 |
1143 |
1143 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the DLR now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
16 Mar 2022
We welcome the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar as new contributing institution!
The Weimar University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.
Contact person is Dana Horch.
Cost data
The initial data set provided by Bauhaus-Universität Weimar covers publication fees for 35 articles published from 2019 to 2021, total expenditure amounts to 53,509€ and the average fee is 1,529€. The contribution also contained two records for Open Access monographs which are not displayed here.
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| MDPI AG |
27 |
42567 |
1577 |
| Informa UK Limited |
3 |
4715 |
1572 |
| Elsevier BV |
2 |
2945 |
1472 |
| Oekom Publishers GmbH |
1 |
290 |
290 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
1 |
1707 |
1707 |
| The Royal Society |
1 |
1285 |
1285 |
Overview
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
16 Mar 2022
The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 3 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, with 2 of them reporting for the first time.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 173 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 277,955€ and the average fee is 1,607€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- IRSN (new)
- Université de Côte d’Azur (new, replaces Université Nice-Sophia-Antipolis)
- Université de Rennes 1
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 |
41 |
71710 |
1749 |
| MDPI AG |
36 |
52511 |
1459 |
| Frontiers Media SA |
15 |
25996 |
1733 |
| Elsevier BV |
12 |
20064 |
1672 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
9 |
10582 |
1176 |
| Wiley-Blackwell |
9 |
21710 |
2412 |
| Copernicus GmbH |
7 |
10632 |
1519 |
| IEEE |
7 |
10474 |
1496 |
| SAGE Publications |
4 |
8795 |
2199 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. |
4 |
1422 |
355 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
3 |
3411 |
1137 |
| Informa UK Limited |
3 |
5636 |
1879 |
| Alphamed Press |
2 |
3182 |
1591 |
| EDP Sciences |
2 |
2000 |
1000 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. |
2 |
3861 |
1931 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) |
2 |
2399 |
1200 |
| Taiwan Association for Aerosol Research |
2 |
657 |
328 |
| Academic Journals |
1 |
472 |
472 |
| Biomedical Research Network, LLC |
1 |
431 |
431 |
| BMJ |
1 |
1569 |
1569 |
| Edizioni Minerva Medica |
1 |
500 |
500 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd |
1 |
2240 |
2240 |
| EMBO |
1 |
3300 |
3300 |
| Geological Society of America |
1 |
2145 |
2145 |
| Impact Journals, LLC |
1 |
2791 |
2791 |
| Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) |
1 |
2000 |
2000 |
| OMICS Publishing Group |
1 |
2174 |
2174 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
2000 |
2000 |
| PeerJ |
1 |
1048 |
1048 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |
1 |
2242 |
2242 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
