21 Jan 2021
The University of Kassel has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2020 period.
Kassel University Library is in charge of the institution’s Open Access Publication Funds,
which received support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.
In addition, Kassel University Library has also reported a final update data on articles published under the DEAL agreement with Wiley in 2019.
Contact person is Dr. Tobias Pohlmann.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 79 articles, total expenditure amounts to 115 281€ and the average fee is 1 459€.
The following table shows the payments Kassel University Library has made to publishers since its last contribution. 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 |
48 |
68749 |
1432 |
Frontiers Media SA |
8 |
13335 |
1667 |
Springer Nature |
5 |
8913 |
1783 |
IOP Publishing |
2 |
3401 |
1700 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
2 |
3394 |
1697 |
sub\urban e.V. |
2 |
800 |
400 |
AIP Publishing |
1 |
1516 |
1516 |
American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
1 |
1251 |
1251 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
1739 |
1739 |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
1 |
1560 |
1560 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
1 |
2123 |
2123 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
1631 |
1631 |
PAGEPress Publications |
1 |
714 |
714 |
Pensoft Publishers |
1 |
910 |
910 |
Resilience Alliance, Inc. |
1 |
1238 |
1238 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
1 |
955 |
955 |
The Company of Biologists |
1 |
1681 |
1681 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
1 |
1371 |
1371 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Kassel now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

19 Jan 2021
We welcome the University of Bern as new contributing institution!
The University launched an institutional Open Access Publishing Fund in April 2020 and has now kindly provided data on funded articles to OpenAPC.
Contact Person is Nives Korrodi.
Cost data
The initial data set covers publication fees for 93 articles published in 2020. Total expenditure amounts to 163,823€ and the average fee is 1,762€.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Springer Nature |
24 |
49324 |
2055 |
MDPI AG |
23 |
32067 |
1394 |
Frontiers Media SA |
22 |
49155 |
2234 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
7 |
9899 |
1414 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
3 |
4861 |
1620 |
Copernicus GmbH |
2 |
2967 |
1484 |
Quintessenz |
2 |
1875 |
938 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
2 |
4020 |
2010 |
BMJ |
1 |
1492 |
1492 |
Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
1 |
870 |
870 |
Elsevier BV |
1 |
1389 |
1389 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
1399 |
1399 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
1 |
1388 |
1388 |
Resilience Alliance, Inc. |
1 |
841 |
841 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
1 |
845 |
845 |
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng |
1 |
1428 |
1428 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

14 Jan 2021
New APC data has been harvested from the institutional repository of Regensburg University, which had shifted to APC data provision via OAI-PMH three years ago.
Regensburg University Library is in charge of the central publication fund at University of Regensburg, which received support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2019.
Contact person is Dr. Gernot Deinzer.
Cost data
This data ingestion is a complete re-harvest due to changes in internal processing. It covers publication fees for 943 articles, total expenditure amounts to 1 474 000€ and the average fee is 1 563€.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
184 |
263216 |
1431 |
Springer Nature |
167 |
316660 |
1896 |
Frontiers Media SA |
158 |
276858 |
1752 |
Springer Science + Business Media |
118 |
150743 |
1277 |
MDPI AG |
65 |
84376 |
1298 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
45 |
72421 |
1609 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
25 |
43498 |
1740 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
21 |
39760 |
1893 |
SAGE Publications |
14 |
18287 |
1306 |
Informa UK Limited |
12 |
23219 |
1935 |
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) |
12 |
1906 |
159 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
11 |
20251 |
1841 |
IOP Publishing |
10 |
12235 |
1224 |
Elsevier BV |
8 |
21813 |
2727 |
Impact Journals, LLC |
8 |
25307 |
3163 |
BMJ |
7 |
11760 |
1680 |
OMICS Publishing Group |
6 |
10338 |
1723 |
S. Karger AG |
6 |
7314 |
1219 |
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. |
6 |
3551 |
592 |
Medknow |
5 |
1682 |
336 |
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) |
4 |
5550 |
1387 |
e-Century Publishing Corporation |
4 |
4372 |
1093 |
Ivyspring International Publisher |
3 |
2203 |
734 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
3 |
1952 |
651 |
Acta Dermato-Venereologica |
2 |
2320 |
1160 |
AME Publishing Company |
2 |
1839 |
920 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
2 |
2753 |
1377 |
American Physical Society (APS) |
2 |
6362 |
3181 |
Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. |
2 |
2089 |
1044 |
Canadian Center of Science and Education |
2 |
482 |
241 |
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd |
2 |
5316 |
2658 |
International Heart Journal (Japanese Heart Journal) |
2 |
3006 |
1503 |
International Scientific Information, Inc. |
2 |
1382 |
691 |
Plegia Research Library |
2 |
3389 |
1695 |
Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften |
2 |
476 |
238 |
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
1 |
2380 |
2380 |
American Mathematical Society (AMS) |
1 |
788 |
788 |
American Research Institute for Policy Development |
1 |
214 |
214 |
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. |
1 |
868 |
868 |
British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery |
1 |
1821 |
1821 |
Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
1 |
1013 |
1013 |
Cogitatio |
1 |
1071 |
1071 |
EARLI |
1 |
238 |
238 |
European Cells and Materials |
1 |
1053 |
1053 |
Food Science Publisher |
1 |
193 |
193 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
1 |
2803 |
2803 |
MedCrave Group, LLC |
1 |
1001 |
1001 |
PeerJ |
1 |
747 |
747 |
Pensoft Publishers |
1 |
357 |
357 |
Sciaccess Publishers LLC |
1 |
1170 |
1170 |
Society for Neuroscience |
1 |
3111 |
3111 |
The Company of Biologists |
1 |
3570 |
3570 |
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research (North Shore LIJ Research Institute) |
1 |
1239 |
1239 |
The Royal Society |
1 |
1678 |
1678 |
Overview
With the recent set of harvest data included, the overall APC data for Regensburg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
