14 Jan 2022
The Johannes Kepler University Linz has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period.
The JKU library operates an Open Access publication fund which provides support for Open Access publishing.
Contact Person is Susanne Luger.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 66 articles, total expenditure amounts to 114,669€ and the average fee is 1,737€.
The following table shows the payments the JKU library has made to publishers in 2021 (including taxes and discounts).
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
45 |
69177 |
1537 |
Frontiers Media SA |
7 |
19543 |
2792 |
Springer Nature |
4 |
8940 |
2235 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
2 |
4048 |
2024 |
American Physical Society (APS) |
1 |
2534 |
2534 |
BioScientifica |
1 |
1800 |
1800 |
Copernicus GmbH |
1 |
768 |
768 |
Elsevier BV |
1 |
2142 |
2142 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
2237 |
2237 |
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) |
1 |
2400 |
2400 |
International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) |
1 |
468 |
468 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
1 |
612 |
612 |
Overview
The following plots provide a detailed overview of all data contributed by the University of Linz up to now:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

13 Jan 2022
New APC data has been harvested from the institutional repository of Regensburg University, which was the first OpenAPc participant to switch to data provision via OAI-PMH.
Regensburg University Library is in charge of the central publication fund at University of Regensburg, which received support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.
Contact person is Dr. Gernot Deinzer.
Cost data
The new data covers publication fees for 55 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 94 361€ and the average fee is 1 716€.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
29 |
48783 |
1682 |
Frontiers Media SA |
16 |
25130 |
1571 |
BMJ |
3 |
5087 |
1696 |
Informa UK Limited |
2 |
5955 |
2978 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
2 |
3406 |
1703 |
Elsevier BV |
1 |
2579 |
2579 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
2231 |
2231 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
1 |
1190 |
1190 |
Overview
With the recent set of harvest data included, the overall APC data for Regensburg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

13 Jan 2022
New APC data has been harvested from the institutional repository of Saarland University.
The Saarland University and State Library (SULB) decided to make data on APC expenditures directly available in their institutional repository, where it can be harvested by OpenAPC on a regular basis via OAI-PMH.
The SULB is also in charge of the central publication fund at Saarland University, which receives support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.
Contact person is Ulrich Herb.
Cost data
The new data covers publication fees for 33 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 52,546€ and the average fee is 1,592€.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
18 |
32004 |
1778 |
Springer Nature |
5 |
7545 |
1509 |
Frontiers Media SA |
3 |
4619 |
1540 |
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
1 |
1292 |
1292 |
Elsevier BV |
1 |
524 |
524 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
1823 |
1823 |
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) |
1 |
1166 |
1166 |
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng |
1 |
1691 |
1691 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
1 |
298 |
298 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
1 |
1585 |
1585 |
Overview
The overall APC data for Saarland University now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
