University of Greifswald reports its 2020 APC expenditures

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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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DLR reports its 2021 APC expenditures

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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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Couperin.org provides additional APC data for 4 institutions

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)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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