HsH joins OpenAPC

We welcome the Hochschule Hannover - University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HsH) as new contributing institution!

The HsH Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received supports by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2020.

Contact persons are Nicolas Semrau and Andrea Hofmann.

Cost data

The initial data set provided by the HsH covers publication fees for 10 articles published in 2020 and 2021, total expenditure amounts to 11,482€ and the average fee is 1,148€. The contribution also provided cost data on one article published under the DEAL agreement with Springer Nature in 2020 which is not included in this list.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 8 9393 1174
Frontiers Media SA 1 1739 1739
Librello 1 350 350

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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Ulm University reports its 2021 APC expenditures

Ulm University has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 periods.

Ulm’s Communication and Information Center (kiz) is in charge of the University’s University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2016.

Contact person is Uli Hahn.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 271 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 541 814€ and the average fee is 1 999€.

The following table shows the payments the kiz has made to publishers in 2021.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 123 243181 1977
Springer Nature 70 152962 2185
MDPI AG 31 57199 1845
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 9 15443 1716
IEEE 7 9056 1294
Wiley-Blackwell 5 12743 2549
Elsevier BV 4 8626 2157
European Cells and Materials 3 2403 801
Informa UK Limited 3 4901 1634
JMIR Publications Inc. 3 6257 2086
IOP Publishing 2 2795 1397
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 7616 3808
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 3764 3764
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1252 1252
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1870 1870
BMJ 1 1823 1823
British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery 1 1711 1711
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 2803 2803
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 2252 2252
Royal College of Psychiatrists 1 2115 2115
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 1043 1043

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Ulm now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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SNSF provides more APC data for 2021

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has provided its remaining APC data for the 2021 period.

Within the framework of the SNSF’s OA policy, grantees are required to publish the results of their research in the form of Open Access publications. APC data on those publications is kindly made available to OpenAPC.

Contact Person for the SNSF is Julius Mattern.

Cost data

The new data set provided by the SNSF covers publication fees for 594 additional articles.

In total, the SNSF paid for 1,038 articles in 2021, with an aggreagted expenditure of 2,299,065€ and an average fee of 2,215€.

The following table provides an overview of all 2021 data:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 242 636188 2629
Frontiers Media SA 194 458522 2364
MDPI AG 136 197878 1455
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 53 101087 1907
Copernicus GmbH 49 80708 1647
Wiley-Blackwell 40 100470 2512
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 33 77444 2347
Oxford University Press (OUP) 33 79617 2413
Elsevier BV 32 85551 2673
BMJ 25 50308 2012
AAAS 21 76878 3661
American Chemical Society (ACS) 16 50543 3159
American Physical Society (APS) 16 34717 2170
JMIR Publications Inc. 13 23019 1771
IOP Publishing 12 21719 1810
Informa UK Limited 11 20354 1850
SAGE Publications 11 10352 941
American Society for Microbiology 8 21248 2656
PeerJ 8 9504 1188
Optical Society of America (OSA) 7 12057 1722
The Royal Society 6 7877 1313
American Medical Association (AMA) 5 12783 2557
EMBO 5 23337 4668
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 5 12150 2430
AIP Publishing 4 9386 2347
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 4 4405 1101
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 3 4175 1392
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 3 4607 1536
F1000 Research, Ltd. 3 3224 1075
The Company of Biologists 3 9795 3265
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 3 1119 373
Akademiai Kiado Zrt. 2 1701 850
American Society for Clinical Investigation 2 7526 3763
Life Science Alliance, LLC 2 5364 2682
Microbiology Society 2 3434 1717
Pensoft Publishers 2 2709 1355
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 2 2407 1203
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2 1363 681
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 1 4492 4492
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1709 1709
Canadian Science Publishing 1 971 971
Council for British Archaeology 1 1578 1578
European Cells and Materials 1 463 463
FapUNIFESP (SciELO) 1 73 73
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 1564 1564
Inishmore Laser Scientific Publishing Ltd 1 749 749
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 1105 1105
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 1 2182 2182
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 1658 1658
Mary Ann Liebert Inc 1 2978 2978
PAGEPress Publications 1 763 763
Polska Akademia Nauk Instytut Paleobiologii (Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences) 1 514 514
Portland Press Ltd. 1 2228 2228
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 4180 4180
Seismological Society of America (SSA) 1 1611 1611
sub\urban e.V. 1 1497 1497
The Electrochemical Society 1 2826 2826
University of Bern 1 399 399

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the SNSF now looks as follows:

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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