23 Dec 2021
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)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

21 Dec 2021
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)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

20 Dec 2021
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)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
