University of Potsdam reports its 2020 APC expenditures

The University of Potsdam has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period.

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

Contact person is Linda Thomas.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 109 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 164 312€ and the average fee is 1 507€.

The following table shows the payments Potsdam University Library has made to publishers in 2020.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 37 55624 1503
Frontiers Media SA 26 41300 1588
Springer Nature 12 21040 1753
IOP Publishing 7 9263 1323
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 7 11647 1664
Wiley-Blackwell 4 6679 1670
Copernicus GmbH 3 4506 1502
Elsevier BV 3 3969 1323
PAGEPress Publications 2 833 416
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2 2068 1034
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 2 856 428
AIP Publishing 1 1617 1617
Geological Society of America 1 1625 1625
Informa UK Limited 1 1999 1999
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1284 1284

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Potsdam 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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Leibniz Association's open access fund reports 2020 APC expenditures

The Open Access Publishing Fund of the Leibniz Association has reported its APC expenditures for the 2020 period.

Data is provided by Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB - German National Library of Science and Technology). TIB is operating the open access fund together with ZB MED (Leibniz Information Centre for Life Sciences) and ZBW (German National Library of Economics – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics).

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 134 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 209 592€ and the average fee is 1 564€.

To interpret the cost data correctly, please have a look at the funding policy of the Leibniz Association’s open access fund.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 35 54606 1560
Copernicus GmbH 27 41443 1535
Springer Nature 22 39022 1774
Frontiers Media SA 17 30104 1771
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 9 15418 1713
Elsevier BV 5 5403 1081
Pensoft Publishers 4 2537 634
BMJ 3 5424 1808
Oxford University Press (OUP) 3 5496 1832
Informa UK Limited 2 2969 1485
Cogitatio 1 1071 1071
F1000 Research, Ltd. 1 549 549
International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering (IJABE) 1 1533 1533
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 210 210
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1999 1999
SAGE Publications 1 736 736
University of California Press 1 1069 1069

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Leibniz Association’s open access fund 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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University of Hannover updates its APC expenditures

The Leibniz Universität Hannover has provided its APC expenditures for the 2020 period.

Leibniz Universität operates an Open Access publishing fund which received support from the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme from 2012 to 2016.

Contact persons is Marco Tullney.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 107 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 167 472€ and the average fee is 1 565€.

The following table shows the payments the University of Hannover has made to publishers since its last contribution.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 53 88771 1675
Frontiers Media SA 9 13938 1549
Springer Nature 9 15593 1733
Elsevier BV 4 4988 1247
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 4 6652 1663
Copernicus GmbH 3 2156 719
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 3 5429 1810
Optical Society of America (OSA) 3 5051 1684
IOP Publishing 2 2836 1418
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2 1845 922
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2 1458 729
Wiley-Blackwell 2 4414 2207
AIP Publishing 1 1983 1983
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 1995 1995
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1218 1218
American Society for Horticultural Science 1 1972 1972
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 1114 1114
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1 892 892
Pensoft Publishers 1 455 455
SAGE Publications 1 1375 1375
Schweizerbart 1 1064 1064
Scientific Societies 1 2034 2034
Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften 1 238 238

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Leibniz Universität Hannover 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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