27 May 2021
Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period.
The BFH libraries collect data on institutional APC expenditures and kindly provide the data sets to OpenAPC.
Contact Person is Laura Tobler.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 14 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 24,808€ and the average fee is 1,772€.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
6 |
9464 |
1577 |
Elsevier BV |
3 |
5159 |
1720 |
Springer Nature |
2 |
5633 |
2816 |
Frontiers Media SA |
1 |
1803 |
1803 |
IOS Press |
1 |
1250 |
1250 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
1 |
1500 |
1500 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the BFH now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

27 May 2021
The TU Ilmenau has updated its APC expenditures, the recent contribution provides data for the 2020 period.
The University Library of TU Ilmenau is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received supports by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2020.
Contact person is Dr. Peter Blume.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 32 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 48,244€ and the average fee is 1,508€.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
17 |
26106 |
1536 |
Elsevier BV |
4 |
4485 |
1121 |
Frontiers Media SA |
3 |
5926 |
1975 |
IEEE |
2 |
3175 |
1587 |
AIP Publishing |
1 |
1582 |
1582 |
Copernicus GmbH |
1 |
497 |
497 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
1 |
2724 |
2724 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
1 |
1634 |
1634 |
Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM Press) |
1 |
294 |
294 |
Springer Nature |
1 |
1821 |
1821 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for TU Ilmenau now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

25 May 2021
The University of Göttingen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period.
The Göttingen State and University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.
Contact persons are Daniel Beucke and Sabine Witt.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 395 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 673 422€ and the average fee is 1 705€.
The following table shows the payments the SUB Göttingen has made to publishers in 2020.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
118 |
169746 |
1439 |
Springer Nature |
84 |
175839 |
2093 |
Frontiers Media SA |
57 |
116377 |
2042 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
29 |
45562 |
1571 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
23 |
41039 |
1784 |
Elsevier BV |
13 |
18721 |
1440 |
Copernicus GmbH |
10 |
19600 |
1960 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
6 |
10351 |
1725 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
6 |
11470 |
1912 |
SAGE Publications |
6 |
5555 |
926 |
Pensoft Publishers |
4 |
2896 |
724 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
3 |
2503 |
834 |
Informa UK Limited |
3 |
6385 |
2128 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
3 |
6268 |
2089 |
American Society for Microbiology |
2 |
3538 |
1769 |
IOP Publishing |
2 |
3068 |
1534 |
Nihon University School of Dentistry |
2 |
408 |
204 |
PeerJ |
2 |
2221 |
1110 |
The Company of Biologists |
2 |
5657 |
2828 |
The Royal Society |
2 |
2506 |
1253 |
Academic Journals |
1 |
580 |
580 |
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
1 |
1982 |
1982 |
BMJ |
1 |
1501 |
1501 |
Carden Jennings Publishing Co. |
1 |
1081 |
1081 |
EDP Sciences |
1 |
928 |
928 |
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd |
1 |
2161 |
2161 |
Eurasian Society of Educational Research |
1 |
542 |
542 |
F1000 Research, Ltd. |
1 |
488 |
488 |
Finnish Society of Forest Science |
1 |
928 |
928 |
Impact Journals, LLC |
1 |
1668 |
1668 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
1 |
2806 |
2806 |
Österreichische Gesellschaft für Entomofaunistik |
1 |
812 |
812 |
Royal College of Psychiatrists |
1 |
1787 |
1787 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
1 |
961 |
961 |
S. Karger AG |
1 |
904 |
904 |
Society for Neuroscience |
1 |
2880 |
2880 |
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. |
1 |
426 |
426 |
Wageningen Academic Publishers |
1 |
1276 |
1276 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Göttingen now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
