03 May 2021
We welcome the University of Basel as new contributing institution!
The University Basel Open Access Publication Fund provides funding for Open Access publishing, an initial data set on funded articles has kindly been provided to OpenAPC.
Contact Person is Andreas Schmid.
Cost data
The initial data set covers publication fees for 87 articles published in 2020, total expenditure amounts to 154,951€ and the average fee is 1,781€.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
20 |
28302 |
1415 |
Frontiers Media SA |
19 |
42825 |
2254 |
Springer Nature |
19 |
35519 |
1869 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
9 |
15564 |
1729 |
BMJ |
4 |
4752 |
1188 |
Elsevier BV |
2 |
5956 |
2978 |
Informa UK Limited |
2 |
2865 |
1432 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
2 |
3630 |
1815 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
2 |
3538 |
1769 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
2 |
2768 |
1384 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
2 |
5280 |
2640 |
F1000 Research, Ltd. |
1 |
856 |
856 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
1362 |
1362 |
PAGEPress Publications |
1 |
750 |
750 |
SAGE Publications |
1 |
984 |
984 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

28 Apr 2021
The University of Bayreuth has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period.
Bayreuth 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 2020.
Contact person is Clemens Engelhardt.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 83 articles, total expenditure amounts to 123,936€ and the average fee is 1,493€.
The following table shows the payments Bayreuth University Library has made to publishers in 2020.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
31 |
43795 |
1413 |
Frontiers Media SA |
9 |
16734 |
1859 |
Springer Nature |
8 |
14996 |
1874 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
7 |
11573 |
1653 |
Copernicus GmbH |
5 |
5651 |
1130 |
Elsevier BV |
4 |
6699 |
1675 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
3 |
5152 |
1717 |
IOP Publishing |
2 |
2846 |
1423 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
2 |
3471 |
1736 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
1 |
745 |
745 |
American Society for Microbiology |
1 |
1870 |
1870 |
Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
1 |
1133 |
1133 |
Cogitatio |
1 |
1044 |
1044 |
DAAAM International |
1 |
1178 |
1178 |
Informa UK Limited |
1 |
1071 |
1071 |
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) |
1 |
1780 |
1780 |
PeerJ |
1 |
988 |
988 |
Pensoft Publishers |
1 |
964 |
964 |
Shared Science Publishers OG |
1 |
1204 |
1204 |
Society for Research and Knowledge Management |
1 |
447 |
447 |
University of Bern |
1 |
595 |
595 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Bayreuth now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

22 Apr 2021
The Technische Universität Braunschweig 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.
Braunschweig 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 Carsten Elsner.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 117 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 169,756€ and the average fee is 1,451€.
The following table shows the payments Braunschweig 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 |
63 |
84268 |
1338 |
Copernicus GmbH |
12 |
18852 |
1571 |
Frontiers Media SA |
9 |
14940 |
1660 |
Springer Nature |
6 |
11919 |
1987 |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
3 |
5285 |
1762 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
3 |
5180 |
1727 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
3 |
3975 |
1325 |
Cogitatio |
2 |
1714 |
857 |
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) |
2 |
759 |
380 |
Portland Press Ltd. |
2 |
2686 |
1343 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
1 |
1253 |
1253 |
BioScientifica |
1 |
1846 |
1846 |
Elsevier BV |
1 |
512 |
512 |
EMBO |
1 |
3573 |
3573 |
Georg Thieme Verlag KG |
1 |
1964 |
1964 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
1154 |
1154 |
Informa UK Limited |
1 |
2001 |
2001 |
IOP Publishing |
1 |
1428 |
1428 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
1 |
1936 |
1936 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
1 |
1865 |
1865 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
1933 |
1933 |
PAGEPress Publications |
1 |
714 |
714 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the TU Braunschweig now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
