05 Oct 2021
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)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

05 Oct 2021
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)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

04 Oct 2021
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)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
