University of Basel joins OpenAPC

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)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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University of Bayreuth reports its 2020 APC expenditures

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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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TU Braunschweig reports its 2020 APC expenditures

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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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