13 Jan 2021
New APC data has been harvested from the institutional repository of Saarland University.
The Saarland University and State Library (SULB) decided to make data on APC expenditures directly available in their institutional repository, where it can be harvested by OpenAPC on a regular basis via OAI-PMH.
The SULB is also in charge of the central publication fund at Saarland University, which receives support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.
Contact person is Ulrich Herb.
Cost data
This data ingestion is a complete re-harvest due to changes in internal processing. It covers publication fees for 115 articles, total expenditure amounts to 180 269€ and the average fee is 1 568€.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
44 |
67443 |
1533 |
Springer Nature |
17 |
30337 |
1785 |
Frontiers Media SA |
14 |
23569 |
1684 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
7 |
11918 |
1703 |
Elsevier BV |
4 |
5168 |
1292 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
3 |
5936 |
1979 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
3 |
4791 |
1597 |
Copernicus GmbH |
2 |
1220 |
610 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
2 |
3436 |
1718 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
2 |
2069 |
1034 |
SAGE Publications |
2 |
4053 |
2026 |
University of California Press |
2 |
2094 |
1047 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
1 |
813 |
813 |
Cell Physiol Biochem Press GmbH and Co KG |
1 |
1785 |
1785 |
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd |
1 |
1918 |
1918 |
European Cells and Materials |
1 |
1093 |
1093 |
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) |
1 |
416 |
416 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
1691 |
1691 |
Informa UK Limited |
1 |
2000 |
2000 |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
1 |
1596 |
1596 |
IOP Publishing |
1 |
1238 |
1238 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
1856 |
1856 |
PAGEPress Publications |
1 |
696 |
696 |
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng |
1 |
1349 |
1349 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
1 |
1785 |
1785 |
Overview
The overall APC data for Saarland University now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

12 Jan 2021
New APC data has been harvested from the institutional repository of Bielefeld University, which had shifted to APC data provision via OAI-PMH.
Bielefeld University Library is in charge of Bielefeld University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.
Contact person is Dirk Pieper.
Cost data
This data ingestion is a complete re-harvest due to changes in internal processing. It covers publication fees for 727 articles, total expenditure amounts to 1 032 289€ and the average fee is 1 420€.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Springer Nature |
194 |
287928 |
1484 |
Frontiers Media SA |
153 |
238262 |
1557 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
113 |
161044 |
1425 |
MDPI AG |
79 |
100095 |
1267 |
Springer Science + Business Media |
62 |
78621 |
1268 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
33 |
51566 |
1563 |
Informa UK Limited |
18 |
26633 |
1480 |
American Society for Microbiology |
9 |
5460 |
607 |
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. |
7 |
7721 |
1103 |
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) |
6 |
8386 |
1398 |
BMJ |
6 |
9328 |
1555 |
Elsevier BV |
4 |
6071 |
1518 |
IOP Publishing |
4 |
4954 |
1238 |
OMICS Publishing Group |
3 |
4107 |
1369 |
The Royal Society |
3 |
3823 |
1274 |
AIP Publishing |
2 |
2970 |
1485 |
Copernicus GmbH |
2 |
3641 |
1820 |
Genetics Society of America |
2 |
4492 |
2246 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
2 |
1970 |
985 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
2 |
2144 |
1072 |
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. |
2 |
889 |
444 |
Allied Business Academies |
1 |
2159 |
2159 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
1 |
790 |
790 |
American Physical Society (APS) |
1 |
1087 |
1087 |
Bern Open Publishing |
1 |
547 |
547 |
Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
1 |
1086 |
1086 |
Cogitatio |
1 |
1200 |
1200 |
Crimson Publishers |
1 |
424 |
424 |
E.U. European Publishing |
1 |
1184 |
1184 |
F1000 Research, Ltd. |
1 |
530 |
530 |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
1 |
1732 |
1732 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
1 |
2194 |
2194 |
Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology |
1 |
1026 |
1026 |
MIT Press - Journals |
1 |
845 |
845 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
1 |
2045 |
2045 |
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften |
1 |
1011 |
1011 |
PeerJ |
1 |
1050 |
1050 |
SAGE Publications |
1 |
279 |
279 |
Scientific & Academic Publishing |
1 |
139 |
139 |
The Company of Biologists |
1 |
2380 |
2380 |
Universitaet Innsbruck - Innsbruck University Press |
1 |
238 |
238 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
1 |
238 |
238 |
Overview
The overall APC data for Bielefeld now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

08 Jan 2021
The University of Rhode Island (URI) has updated its APC expenditures, the recent contribution provides cost data on APCs paid in 2020.
The URI University Libraries operate the University’s Open Access Fund, which underwrites publication fees for articles published in eligible open access journals.
Contact Person is Andrée Rathemacher.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 5 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 7 064€ and the average fee is 1 413€.
The following table provides an overview of the new data:
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
4 |
5490 |
1372 |
Springer Nature |
1 |
1575 |
1575 |
With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for the URI now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
