18 May 2021
The Technische Universität Darmstadt has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data on Gold OA articles published under the Springer and Wiley DEAL contracts in 2020.
The University and State Library Darmstadt (ULB) is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.
Contact Person is Nicole Rosenke.
Cost Data
The new data set covers publication fees for 13 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 22 207€ and the average fee is 1 708€.
The following table provides an overview:
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Springer Nature |
7 |
12983 |
1855 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
6 |
9225 |
1537 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for TU Darmstadt now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

18 May 2021
The Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) has reported its APC expenditures for the 2020 period.
Contact person is Dr.Dorothea Busjahn.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 61 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 162,446€ and the average fee is 2,663€.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Elsevier BV |
16 |
51005 |
3188 |
Springer Nature |
14 |
40142 |
2867 |
Frontiers Media SA |
6 |
11759 |
1960 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
6 |
15150 |
2525 |
MDPI AG |
5 |
8561 |
1712 |
EMBO |
2 |
7780 |
3890 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
2 |
3526 |
1763 |
American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB) |
1 |
714 |
714 |
American Society for Clinical Investigation |
1 |
3107 |
3107 |
Informa UK Limited |
1 |
1725 |
1725 |
Ivyspring International Publisher |
1 |
1832 |
1832 |
Life Science Alliance, LLC |
1 |
2530 |
2530 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
1 |
2795 |
2795 |
PeerJ |
1 |
1011 |
1011 |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |
1 |
5001 |
5001 |
Rockefeller University Press |
1 |
4368 |
4368 |
The Royal Society |
1 |
1440 |
1440 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the MDC now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

18 May 2021
We welcome the Hochschule Düsseldorf (HSD) as new contributing institution!
The HSD Library has collected data on institutional APC expenditures and kindly provided an initial data set to OpenAPC.
Contact Person is Stefanie Söhnitz.
Cost data
The initial data set covers publication fees for 6 articles published between 2018 and 2020. Total expenditure amounts to 11,841€ and the average fee is 1,974€.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
3 |
4798 |
1599 |
Elsevier BV |
1 |
1675 |
1675 |
Frontiers Media SA |
1 |
2468 |
2468 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
1 |
2900 |
2900 |
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)
