31 Mar 2021
We welcome the DIPF (Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education) as new contributing institution!
The DIPF’s Educational Research Library Frankfurt operates the DIPF publications database and the institutional Open Access repository and has provided an initial data set to OpenAPC.
Contact Person is Manuela Bielow.
Cost data
The initial dataset provided by the DIPF covers publication fees for 21 articles published in 2019 and 2020, total expenditure amounts to 38,176€ and the average fee is 1,818€. The DIPF also provided BPC data for 3 OA monographs (not shown here).
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Frontiers Media SA |
4 |
4858 |
1214 |
MDPI AG |
3 |
4146 |
1382 |
Springer Nature |
3 |
7806 |
2602 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
3 |
7594 |
2531 |
American Educational Research Association (AERA) |
2 |
491 |
246 |
Elsevier BV |
2 |
3273 |
1637 |
American Psychological Association (APA) |
1 |
2665 |
2665 |
Emerald |
1 |
2717 |
2717 |
Hogrefe Publishing Group |
1 |
2231 |
2231 |
Informa UK Limited |
1 |
2395 |
2395 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

31 Mar 2021
The IAB (Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2019 period. The report also covered cost data on hybrid articles published under the DEAL agreement with Wiley.
The IAB is a research institute and special office of the German Federal Employment Agency.
Contact person for the IAB data is Friedrich Riedel.
Cost Data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 24 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 57,506€ and the average fee is 2,396€.
The following table shows the payments the IAB has made to publishers in 2019. 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 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
6 |
16380 |
2730 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
5 |
11900 |
2380 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
4 |
11720 |
2930 |
SAGE Publications |
3 |
6572 |
2191 |
Springer Nature |
2 |
5617 |
2808 |
Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
1 |
95 |
95 |
Cogitatio |
1 |
1071 |
1071 |
Informa UK Limited |
1 |
2707 |
2707 |
Swansea University |
1 |
1443 |
1443 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the IAB now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

31 Mar 2021
The Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period and some more articles for 2019.
The IGB Library manages the institution’s APC expenditures and the IGB publishing fund established in 2018.
Contact Person is Dr. Thomas Gerdes.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 21 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 25,719€ and the average fee is 1,225€.
The following table provides an overview:
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
7 |
6272 |
896 |
Copernicus GmbH |
5 |
5886 |
1177 |
Springer Nature |
5 |
7548 |
1510 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
2 |
2580 |
1290 |
Frontiers Media SA |
1 |
1976 |
1976 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
1457 |
1457 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the IGB now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
