25 Mar 2021
The ETH Zurich has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the years from 2012 to 2019.
The ETH Library provides funding for Open Access publishing and kindly provides data on funded articles to OpenAPC.
Contact Person is Dr. Rainer Rees-Mertins.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 1,219 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 1,799,823€ and the average fee is 1,476€.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
381 |
580532 |
1524 |
Frontiers Media SA |
300 |
551261 |
1838 |
Copernicus GmbH |
269 |
447389 |
1663 |
MDPI AG |
219 |
230606 |
1053 |
Springer Nature |
216 |
308118 |
1426 |
Springer Science + Business Media |
103 |
121245 |
1177 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
47 |
112054 |
2384 |
American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
7 |
9227 |
1318 |
EMBO |
6 |
19159 |
3193 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
3 |
10035 |
3345 |
American Vacuum Society |
2 |
1382 |
691 |
EDP Sciences |
1 |
864 |
864 |
OMICS Publishing Group |
1 |
765 |
765 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
3545 |
3545 |
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. |
1 |
433 |
433 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the ETH Zurich now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

24 Mar 2021
Chemnitz University of Technology has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period.
Chemnitz 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 2019.
Contact person is Ute Blumtritt.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 44 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 63,783€ and the average fee is 1,450€.
The following table shows the payments the Chemnitz University Library has made to publishers in 2020.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
25 |
37791 |
1512 |
Frontiers Media SA |
8 |
9958 |
1245 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
3 |
3898 |
1299 |
ARVO |
1 |
2037 |
2037 |
Elsevier BV |
1 |
510 |
510 |
Georg Thieme Verlag KG |
1 |
1999 |
1999 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
1 |
2000 |
2000 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
1743 |
1743 |
PeerJ |
1 |
977 |
977 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
1 |
1002 |
1002 |
Springer Nature |
1 |
1868 |
1868 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the TU Chemnitz now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

23 Mar 2021
The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides articles for the years 2020 and 2021.
The BIS (Library and Information System) is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.
Contact person is Kim Braun.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 89 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 143 768€ and the average fee is 1 615€.
The following table shows the payments the BIS has made to publishers since Oldenburg’s last report.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Frontiers Media SA |
25 |
43024 |
1721 |
MDPI AG |
20 |
33990 |
1699 |
Springer Nature |
20 |
34275 |
1714 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
4 |
6574 |
1644 |
SAGE Publications |
4 |
5291 |
1323 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
3 |
4424 |
1475 |
Informa UK Limited |
2 |
3295 |
1648 |
IOP Publishing |
2 |
2836 |
1418 |
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. |
2 |
1403 |
701 |
AME Publishing Company |
1 |
1372 |
1372 |
BMJ |
1 |
1724 |
1724 |
Copernicus GmbH |
1 |
1601 |
1601 |
EDP Sciences |
1 |
378 |
378 |
MIT Press - Journals |
1 |
1202 |
1202 |
Modestum Limited |
1 |
416 |
416 |
Society for Neuroscience |
1 |
1964 |
1964 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Oldenburg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
