08 Jan 2021
The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for the Université de Lorraine in 2019 now been made available to OpenAPC.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 53 articles published in 2019. Total expenditure amounts to 77 853€ and the average fee is 1 469€.
The following table provides an overview of the new data:
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
21 |
24952 |
1188 |
Springer Nature |
8 |
14358 |
1795 |
Frontiers Media SA |
6 |
10130 |
1688 |
Elsevier BV |
4 |
8180 |
2045 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
2 |
2824 |
1412 |
ZealPress |
2 |
690 |
345 |
American Society for Microbiology |
1 |
796 |
796 |
Copernicus GmbH |
1 |
2232 |
2232 |
Herald Scholarly Open Access |
1 |
1217 |
1217 |
Impact Journals, LLC |
1 |
3011 |
3011 |
Informa UK Limited |
1 |
2520 |
2520 |
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) |
1 |
1328 |
1328 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
1 |
841 |
841 |
SAGE Publications |
1 |
1993 |
1993 |
SciDoc Publishers LLC |
1 |
234 |
234 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
1 |
2547 |
2547 |
Overview
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

07 Jan 2021
The Goethe University Frankfurt has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2020 period.
The University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.
Contact Person is Roland Wagner.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 248 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 429 079€ and the average fee is 1 730€.
The following table shows the payments Frankfurt University Library has made to publishers in 2020.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
88 |
154545 |
1756 |
Frontiers Media SA |
71 |
133361 |
1878 |
Springer Nature |
24 |
42533 |
1772 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
15 |
24985 |
1666 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
11 |
22848 |
2077 |
Elsevier BV |
6 |
10171 |
1695 |
BMJ |
3 |
4509 |
1503 |
Copernicus GmbH |
3 |
3627 |
1209 |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
3 |
4977 |
1659 |
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) |
3 |
927 |
309 |
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd |
2 |
3722 |
1861 |
Informa UK Limited |
2 |
1710 |
855 |
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. |
2 |
1756 |
878 |
University of Uludag |
2 |
3570 |
1785 |
Akademiai Kiado Zrt. |
1 |
835 |
835 |
American Medical Association (AMA) |
1 |
1472 |
1472 |
Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
1 |
1031 |
1031 |
International Global Health Society |
1 |
1779 |
1779 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
1 |
2201 |
2201 |
Korean Neurosurgical Society |
1 |
319 |
319 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
1 |
1858 |
1858 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
1 |
1478 |
1478 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
1949 |
1949 |
sub\urban e.V. |
1 |
400 |
400 |
Termedia Sp. z.o.o. |
1 |
267 |
267 |
The Royal Society |
1 |
1285 |
1285 |
University of California Press |
1 |
962 |
962 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Frankfurt now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

06 Jan 2021
The Central Library(ZB) of the Forschungszentrum Jülich has provided its institutional APC expenditures for the 2019 period.
In addition, the ZB has also reported cost data on hybrid articles published under the DEAL agreement with Wiley.
Contact person is Nadja Kalinna.
Cost data
The new data set covers publication fees for 223 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 412 736€ and the average fee is 1 851€.
The following table shows the payments the FZJ 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 |
45 |
100531 |
2234 |
MDPI AG |
40 |
46544 |
1164 |
Frontiers Media SA |
25 |
44630 |
1785 |
Elsevier BV |
22 |
49029 |
2229 |
Copernicus GmbH |
21 |
35328 |
1682 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
11 |
29914 |
2720 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
10 |
15382 |
1538 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
7 |
19416 |
2774 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
7 |
7908 |
1130 |
IOP Publishing |
6 |
8350 |
1392 |
Soil Science Society of America |
6 |
16895 |
2816 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
5 |
8505 |
1701 |
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd |
4 |
8911 |
2228 |
AIP Publishing |
2 |
3187 |
1593 |
American Geophysical Union (AGU) |
1 |
3000 |
3000 |
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) |
1 |
716 |
716 |
American Physical Society (APS) |
1 |
1983 |
1983 |
Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
1 |
1228 |
1228 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
1558 |
1558 |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
1 |
1826 |
1826 |
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) |
1 |
1254 |
1254 |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |
1 |
1949 |
1949 |
Resilience Alliance, Inc. |
1 |
1127 |
1127 |
S. Karger AG |
1 |
893 |
893 |
The Electrochemical Society |
1 |
897 |
897 |
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt |
1 |
1776 |
1776 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the FZJ now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
