JLU Gießen reports APC expenditures for 2021 and DEAL data for 2020

The Justus Liebig University Gießen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution mainly provides data on APCs for the 2021 period and articles published under the German DEAL agreements with Wiley and Springer Nature in 2020.

The JLU University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which was supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.

Contact person is Florian Ruckelshausen.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 315 articles, total expenditure amounts to 584 043€ and the average fee is 1 854€. Please note that articles published in hybrid journals under the DEAL agreement are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements data set.

The following table shows the payments the JLU library has made to publishers since their last report.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 106 195112 1841
Springer Nature 79 151497 1918
Frontiers Media SA 59 109617 1858
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 13 23274 1790
Wiley-Blackwell 11 22002 2000
Elsevier BV 7 11440 1634
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 6 11076 1846
IOP Publishing 6 11186 1864
Oxford University Press (OUP) 6 19172 3195
AME Publishing Company 3 4191 1397
Copernicus GmbH 2 286 143
Japanese Society for Dental Materials and Devices 2 1308 654
Veterinary World 2 960 480
AIP Publishing 1 1537 1537
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 4541 4541
Cogitatio 1 1044 1044
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 1854 1854
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 2001 2001
Hogrefe Publishing Group 1 1972 1972
Microbiology Society 1 2084 2084
PeerJ 1 1027 1027
Pensoft Publishers 1 668 668
Royal College of Psychiatrists 1 2101 2101
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 1045 1045
SAGE Publications 1 2098 2098
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 952 952

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the JLU 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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ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences reports its 2021 APC expenditures

ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences has reported its APC expenditures for the 2021 period.

The ZHAW library operates an Open Access publication fund which provides support for Open Access publishing, and kindly provides data on funded articles to OpenAPC.

Contact Person is Andrea Moritz.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 33 articles, total expenditure amounts to 52,389€ and the average fee is 1,588€.

The following table provides an overview of the new data:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 16 24397 1525
Frontiers Media SA 7 10640 1520
Springer Nature 4 8053 2013
SAGE Publications 2 2632 1316
Informa UK Limited 1 2504 2504
Pensoft Publishers 1 599 599
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1464 1464
Wiley-Blackwell 1 2100 2100

Overview

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

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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University of Milan reports its 2021 APC expenditures

The University of Milan has reported its APC expenditures for the 2021 period.

Contact person is Paola Galimberti.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 434 articles, total expenditure amounts to 732 483€ and the average fee is 1 688€.

The following table shows the payments the University of Milan has made to publishers in 2021:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 212 310250 1463
Frontiers Media SA 65 156588 2409
Springer Nature 48 94303 1965
Elsevier BV 18 38495 2139
Informa UK Limited 12 19726 1644
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 12 20622 1718
Wiley-Blackwell 12 19118 1593
PAGEPress Publications 6 1616 269
Oxford University Press (OUP) 4 12342 3086
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 3 5671 1890
IOP Publishing 3 2840 947
Mattioli 1885 3 900 300
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 3 8698 2899
Franco Angeli 2 1165 582
Italian Association of Chemical Engineering 2 650 325
The Royal Society 2 2280 1140
Wageningen Academic Publishers 2 2425 1213
AME Publishing Company 1 1580 1580
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 5116 5116
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1076 1076
Asian Institute of Research 1 175 175
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 1 600 600
Biomedical Research Network, LLC 1 113 113
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 1704 1704
Copernicus GmbH 1 1209 1209
Gavin Publishers 1 1433 1433
International Seed Testing Association 1 1311 1311
Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishing 1 568 568
MyJove Corporation 1 4775 4775
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 2291 2291
Pacini Editore 1 50 50
PeerJ 1 1359 1359
Rockefeller University Press 1 2274 2274
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 1360 1360
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 1 1126 1126
Scientific Societies 1 826 826
Società Editrice Universo 1 100 100
The Endocrine Society 1 2500 2500
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 1042 1042
Universidad Nacional de La Plata 1 1300 1300
Universidade de Sao Paulo, Agencia USP de Gestao da Informacao Academica (AGUIA) 1 680 680
Universite de Bordeaux 1 225 225

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Milan 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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