10 May 2021
The University of Greifswald has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period. The report also covered cost data on hybrid articles published under the DEAL agreement with Wiley in 2019.
Greifswald University Library 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 Stefanie Bollin.
Cost Data
The new data set covers publication fees for 43 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 72,167€ and the average fee is 1,678€.
The following table shows the payments Greifswald University Library has made to publishers in 2020. Please note that articles published in hybrid Wiley journals under the DEAL agreement are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements data set.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
13 |
23786 |
1830 |
Frontiers Media SA |
8 |
14484 |
1811 |
Springer Nature |
8 |
14235 |
1779 |
Elsevier BV |
3 |
4236 |
1412 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
3 |
5081 |
1694 |
SAGE Publications |
2 |
1944 |
972 |
American Physical Society (APS) |
1 |
1252 |
1252 |
American Society for Microbiology |
1 |
2016 |
2016 |
BMJ |
1 |
1809 |
1809 |
European Cells and Materials |
1 |
1124 |
1124 |
German Medical Science |
1 |
200 |
200 |
IOP Publishing |
1 |
1999 |
1999 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Greifswald now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

06 May 2021
The German Aerospace Center (DLR - Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) has provided its APC expenditures for the 2020 period.
The DLR Library is responsible for compiling data sets on institutional APC expenditures and kindly provides them to OpenAPC.
Contact Person is Martin Wimmer.
Cost data
The new data sets cover publication fees for 288 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 451,367€ and the average fee is 1,567€.
The following table provides an overview:
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
121 |
161828 |
1337 |
Copernicus GmbH |
39 |
69097 |
1772 |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
34 |
51323 |
1510 |
Elsevier BV |
30 |
58570 |
1952 |
Frontiers Media SA |
10 |
18514 |
1851 |
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) |
9 |
15611 |
1735 |
Springer Nature |
7 |
10009 |
1430 |
Schweizerbart |
6 |
9606 |
1601 |
IOP Publishing |
5 |
10018 |
2004 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
5 |
9437 |
1887 |
American Physical Society (APS) |
3 |
7899 |
2633 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
3 |
4467 |
1489 |
Informa UK Limited |
2 |
1590 |
795 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
2 |
2896 |
1448 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
2 |
5095 |
2548 |
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
1 |
4526 |
4526 |
American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
1 |
1070 |
1070 |
American Meteorological Society |
1 |
726 |
726 |
Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
1 |
1899 |
1899 |
EDP Sciences |
1 |
800 |
800 |
SAGE Publications |
1 |
2434 |
2434 |
The Electromagnetics Academy |
1 |
180 |
180 |
The Royal Society |
1 |
2040 |
2040 |
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. |
1 |
393 |
393 |
University of California Press |
1 |
1341 |
1341 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the DLR now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

05 May 2021
The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 4 different institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, with 2 of them reporting for the first time.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 150 articles published between 2017 and 2020. Total expenditure amounts to 242,165€ and the average fee is 1,614€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Université de La Réunion
- Université de Caen Normandie
- Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (new)
- IMT Atlantique (new)
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data sets provides the following overview:
Breakdown by publisher
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
52 |
70764 |
1361 |
Springer Nature |
19 |
31640 |
1665 |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
15 |
23110 |
1541 |
Frontiers Media SA |
13 |
31146 |
2396 |
Elsevier BV |
12 |
24397 |
2033 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
9 |
12414 |
1379 |
Informa UK Limited |
7 |
13785 |
1969 |
Copernicus GmbH |
6 |
10079 |
1680 |
Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) |
4 |
3010 |
752 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
4 |
5123 |
1281 |
American Meteorological Society |
1 |
2175 |
2175 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
1 |
1858 |
1858 |
Cell Physiol Biochem Press GmbH and Co KG |
1 |
1500 |
1500 |
Impact Journals, LLC |
1 |
2788 |
2788 |
SAGE Publications |
1 |
1161 |
1161 |
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene |
1 |
2333 |
2333 |
PeerJ |
1 |
1013 |
1013 |
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. |
1 |
895 |
895 |
AIP Publishing |
1 |
2975 |
2975 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
