19 Jan 2022
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)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

19 Jan 2022
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)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

18 Jan 2022
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)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
