Charité reports its 2020 DEAL data

The Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin has updated its APC expenditures, providing data on articles published under the German DEAL agreement in the 2020 period.

The Charité Medical Library is in charge of the institution’s Open Access Publication Funds, which is receiving support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.

Contact Person is Jenny Delasalle.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 129 articles published in Springer Nature and Wiley Gold OA journals, total expenditure amounts to 260,240€ and the average fee is 2,017€. 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 provide an overwiew:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 90 175794 1953
Wiley-Blackwell 39 84447 2165

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Charité 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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PDI joins OpenAPC

We welcome the Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik (PDI) as new contributing institution!

Contact Person for the PDI data is Anne Timm.

Cost data

The initial data set provided by the PDI covers publication fees for 5 articles published in 2020, total expenditure amounts to 10,312€ and the average fee is 2,062€. The PDI also provided data for on articles published under the German DEAL agreement with Wiley (not shown here).

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
AIP Publishing 2 4009 2005
IEEE 1 1833 1833
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 2899 2899
Springer Nature 1 1570 1570

Overview

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

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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University of Linz joins OpenAPC

We welcome the Johannes Kepler University Linz as new contributing institution!

The JKU library operates an Open Access publication fund which provides support for Open Access publishing.

Contact Person is Susanne Luger.

Cost data

The initial data set covers publication fees for 41 articles published from 2018 to 2020, total expenditure amounts to 60,468€ and the average fee is 1,475€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 21 26101 1243
Frontiers Media SA 4 10860 2715
Springer Nature 4 7501 1875
Informa UK Limited 3 5197 1732
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 3 2545 848
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2 2279 1139
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 875 875
Copernicus GmbH 1 864 864
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 2230 2230
SAGE Publications 1 2017 2017

Overview

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

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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