16 Mar 2021
The Technische Universität Berlin has provided BPC expenditures for the 2018 to 2020 period.
The TU Berlin University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which also supports publishing of OA monographs.
Contact person is Michaela Voigt.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 13 books. Total expenditure amounts to 84 524€ and the average fee is 6 502€.
The following tables and plots provide an overview of the payments the TU Library has made to book publishers from 2018 to 2020.
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| Springer International Publishing |
3 |
23044 |
7681 |
| transcript Verlag |
3 |
21929 |
7310 |
| Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
2 |
19471 |
9736 |
| Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden |
2 |
11263 |
5632 |
| Büchner-Verlag |
1 |
3580 |
3580 |
| Peter Lang |
1 |
4760 |
4760 |
| Ruby Press Berlin |
1 |
476 |
476 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
12 Mar 2021
The GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel has provided its APC expenditures for the 2020 period.
The GEOMAR Library manages the institution’s APC expenditures in accordance with the GEOMAR OA Policy.
Contact Persons are Barbara Schmidt and Heidi Düpow.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 131 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 284 496€ and the average fee is 2 172€.
The following table shows the payments the GEOMAR has made to publishers since its last contribution.
| |
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
| Copernicus GmbH |
91 |
146951 |
1615 |
| Springer Nature |
79 |
203974 |
2582 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
42 |
114423 |
2724 |
| Frontiers Media SA |
39 |
61197 |
1569 |
| Wiley-Blackwell |
33 |
70324 |
2131 |
| MDPI AG |
29 |
41817 |
1442 |
| Elsevier BV |
21 |
54008 |
2572 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
9 |
12112 |
1346 |
| American Meteorological Society |
5 |
3520 |
704 |
| REABIC |
5 |
5250 |
1050 |
| AAAS |
4 |
15448 |
3862 |
| American Society for Microbiology |
4 |
6739 |
1685 |
| Geological Society of America |
3 |
5304 |
1768 |
| Informa UK Limited |
3 |
5365 |
1788 |
| Inter-Research Science Center |
3 |
5000 |
1667 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) |
3 |
7977 |
2659 |
| PeerJ |
3 |
3000 |
1000 |
| The Royal Society |
3 |
6120 |
2040 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
3 |
6000 |
2000 |
| IEEE |
2 |
3652 |
1826 |
| IOP Publishing |
2 |
3600 |
1800 |
| Georg Thieme Verlag KG |
1 |
2500 |
2500 |
| Magnolia Press |
1 |
709 |
709 |
| Microbiology Society |
1 |
2400 |
2400 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) |
1 |
2215 |
2215 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |
1 |
1200 |
1200 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per year (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
10 Mar 2021
The Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) 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 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 dataset covers publication fees for 15 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 18 153€ and the average fee is 1 210€.
The following table shows the payments the IGB Library 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 |
| Springer Nature |
4 |
4748 |
1187 |
| Frontiers Media SA |
3 |
4569 |
1523 |
| MDPI AG |
2 |
1977 |
988 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
2 |
2468 |
1234 |
| Wiley-Blackwell |
2 |
2376 |
1188 |
| Copernicus GmbH |
1 |
1173 |
1173 |
| Informa UK Limited |
1 |
843 |
843 |
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)
