TH Wildau reports its 2021 APC expenditures

The Technische Hochschule Wildau has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2021 period.

Wildau University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is received support under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme until 2020.

Contact Person is Friederike Borchert.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 5 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 7 450€ and the average fee is 1 490€.

The following table shows the payments Wildau University Library has made to publishers in 2021 (including taxes and discounts).

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 2 3448 1724
Optical Society of America (OSA) 2 2731 1365
Springer Nature 1 1271 1271

Overview

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

Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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Couperin.org provides additional APC data for 5 institutions

The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.

APC expenditures for 5 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, with 4 of them reporting for the first time.

Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.

Cost data

The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 1,067 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 1,878,552€ and the average fee is 1,761€.

The data originates from the following institutions:

  • Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France (new)
  • INRAE (new)
  • European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) (new)
  • Ecole centrale de Lyon (new)
  • Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)

Overview

A detailed analysis of the contributed data sets provides the following overview:

Breakdown by publisher

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 261 491816 1884
MDPI AG 164 203124 1239
Frontiers Media SA 146 309344 2119
Elsevier BV 112 192902 1722
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 86 134826 1568
Copernicus GmbH 55 95849 1743
Oxford University Press (OUP) 53 106062 2001
Wiley-Blackwell 36 100496 2792
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 16 17591 1099
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 12 17773 1481
Informa UK Limited 10 17424 1742
Optical Society of America (OSA) 10 16366 1637
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 9 9870 1097
American Society for Microbiology 8 12417 1552
AIP Publishing 7 11300 1614
IEEE 7 9557 1365
American Dairy Science Association 6 10432 1739
IOP Publishing 6 10884 1814
AAAS 5 10158 2032
PeerJ 5 4563 913
MyJove Corporation 4 12769 3192
American Physical Society (APS) 3 7670 2557
ASBMB 3 6259 2086
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 3 5086 1695
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 3 6508 2169
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 3 2757 919
American Chemical Society (ACS) 2 3545 1773
SAGE Publications 2 3017 1509
Scientific Societies 2 4267 2134
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2 1360 680
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) 1 443 443
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 1 1625 1625
American Society for Clinical Investigation 1 2869 2869
BMJ 1 2400 2400
Canadian Science Publishing 1 672 672
Carl Hanser Verlag 1 1800 1800
CSIRO Publishing 1 2500 2500
Dundee Science Press 1 499 499
EMBO 1 5815 5815
F1000 Research, Ltd. 1 1108 1108
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) 1 1602 1602
Future Medicine Ltd 1 2100 2100
Impact Journals, LLC 1 1462 1462
Ivyspring International Publisher 1 1840 1840
IWA Publishing 1 1399 1399
Life Science Alliance, LLC 1 2233 2233
Open Access Text Pvt, Ltd. 1 1666 1666
Pensoft Publishers 1 275 275
Pesticide Science Society of Japan 1 1488 1488
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 2416 2416
Research Outreach 1 883 883
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 1 1142 1142
Rockefeller University Press 1 883 883
S. Karger AG 1 1749 1749
Shared Science Publishers OG 1 1012 1012
The Electrochemical Society 1 677 677

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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Forschungszentrum Jülich reports its 2020 APC expenditures

The Central Library(ZB) of the Forschungszentrum Jülich has provided its institutional APC expenditures for the 2020 period.

Contact person is Nadja Kalinna.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 301 articles, total expenditure amounts to 583 836€ and the average fee is 1 940€.

The following table shows the payments the FZJ has made to publishers in 2020.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 62 83713 1350
Elsevier BV 47 112329 2390
Frontiers Media SA 34 65259 1919
Springer Nature 25 57994 2320
Copernicus GmbH 18 30108 1673
Wiley-Blackwell 18 29677 1649
IOP Publishing 16 24644 1540
American Chemical Society (ACS) 11 33293 3027
Oxford University Press (OUP) 8 24353 3044
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 7 8924 1275
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 6 24502 4084
AIP Publishing 5 14207 2841
American Physical Society (APS) 5 8406 1681
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 5 7634 1527
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 5 8837 1767
Informa UK Limited 4 9182 2295
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 3 6632 2211
Optical Society of America (OSA) 3 5336 1779
American Society for Microbiology 2 6456 3228
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2 3189 1595
The Royal Society 2 3120 1560
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2 3748 1874
American Astronomical Society 1 1135 1135
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 1 1300 1300
American Meteorological Society 1 680 680
American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) 1 786 786
BMJ 1 1520 1520
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 2394 2394
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 1 1271 1271
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 484 484
Mineralogical Society of America 1 2057 2057
Physical Society of Japan 1 401 401
The Electrochemical Society 1 266 266

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the FZJ 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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