University of Kassel reports its 2020 APC expenditures

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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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University of Bern joins OpenAPC

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)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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New APC data harvested from Regensburg University

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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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