25 Feb 2022
Lib4RI (Library for the Research Institutes within the ETH Domain) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contributions provide data for the 2009 to 2016 period.
Lib4RI provides APC data for four institutes: Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology), Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology), PSI (Paul Scherrer Institute) and WSL (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research).
Contact persons are Jochen Bihn and Sarah Last.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 99 articles published at Empa and Eawag from 2009 to 2016. Total expenditure amounts to 149,355€ and the average fee is 1,509€. The following tables and plots provide more details.
Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| Springer Nature |
21 |
34493 |
1642 |
| Copernicus GmbH |
15 |
19151 |
1277 |
| MDPI AG |
12 |
17243 |
1437 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
4 |
4071 |
1018 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) |
4 |
6812 |
1703 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
4 |
4622 |
1156 |
| AIP Publishing |
1 |
1110 |
1110 |
| ALTEX Edition |
1 |
2160 |
2160 |
| Informa UK Limited |
1 |
1740 |
1740 |
| Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation |
1 |
1080 |
1080 |
| The Royal Society |
1 |
1802 |
1802 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
11 |
15195 |
1381 |
| Springer Nature |
9 |
21659 |
2407 |
| Copernicus GmbH |
5 |
5262 |
1052 |
| Wiley-Blackwell |
5 |
7734 |
1547 |
| Frontiers Media SA |
2 |
2904 |
1452 |
| IOP Publishing |
1 |
1563 |
1563 |
| Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) |
1 |
756 |
756 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
24 Feb 2022
The Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period.
Tübingen University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme until 2019.
Contact person is Ute Grimmel-Holzwarth.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 361 articles, total expenditure amounts to 615 490€ and the average fee is 1 705€.
The following table shows the payments Tübingen University Library has made to publishers in 2020.
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| Springer Nature |
99 |
181355 |
1832 |
| MDPI AG |
81 |
131403 |
1622 |
| Frontiers Media SA |
76 |
141948 |
1868 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
27 |
38265 |
1417 |
| Wiley-Blackwell |
13 |
23851 |
1835 |
| Elsevier BV |
12 |
17714 |
1476 |
| BMJ |
5 |
8404 |
1681 |
| Informa UK Limited |
5 |
7633 |
1527 |
| Copernicus GmbH |
4 |
5788 |
1447 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. |
4 |
7293 |
1823 |
| ARVO |
3 |
5745 |
1915 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
3 |
4053 |
1351 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) |
3 |
5738 |
1913 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) |
2 |
3469 |
1735 |
| S. Karger AG |
2 |
3745 |
1872 |
| SAGE Publications |
2 |
2247 |
1123 |
| Schweizerbart |
2 |
2129 |
1064 |
| The Royal Society |
2 |
2589 |
1295 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. |
2 |
1292 |
646 |
| American Physical Society (APS) |
1 |
1646 |
1646 |
| British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery |
1 |
970 |
970 |
| EMBO |
1 |
3665 |
3665 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG |
1 |
1680 |
1680 |
| Indian Orthopaedic Research Group |
1 |
241 |
241 |
| IOP Publishing |
1 |
1428 |
1428 |
| MIT Press - Journals |
1 |
1715 |
1715 |
| Oekom Publishers GmbH |
1 |
298 |
298 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
1 |
1804 |
1804 |
| PeerJ |
1 |
1203 |
1203 |
| Society for Neuroscience |
1 |
1941 |
1941 |
| The Company of Biologists |
1 |
1624 |
1624 |
| University of Bern |
1 |
1009 |
1009 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
1 |
1606 |
1606 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Tübingen now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
17 Feb 2022
The University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation (TiHo) has reported its 2021 APC expenditures.
The TiHo Library is in charge of the institution’s Open Access Publication Funds, which is receiving support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.
Contact person is Hans-Jürgen Osigus.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 187 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 340 699€ and the average fee is 1 822€.
The following table shows the payments the TiHo Library has made to publishers in 2021.
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| MDPI AG |
68 |
117205 |
1724 |
| Springer Nature |
40 |
71255 |
1781 |
| Frontiers Media SA |
26 |
53035 |
2040 |
| Elsevier BV |
12 |
28893 |
2408 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
10 |
17404 |
1740 |
| Informa UK Limited |
6 |
11814 |
1969 |
| Wiley-Blackwell |
5 |
11833 |
2367 |
| PeerJ |
4 |
4483 |
1121 |
| Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft |
4 |
4522 |
1130 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) |
3 |
6080 |
2027 |
| American Dairy Science Association |
2 |
2649 |
1324 |
| American Society for Microbiology |
2 |
3561 |
1780 |
| Utah State University |
2 |
2534 |
1267 |
| Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
1 |
2836 |
2836 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
2146 |
2146 |
| VM Media SP. zo.o VM Group SK |
1 |
450 |
450 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the TiHo now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
