University of Lucerne and University of Teacher Education Lucerne join OpenAPC

OpenAPC welcomes two new institutions from Switzerland: The University of Lucerne and the University of Teacher Education Lucerne (PHLU - Pädagogische Hochschule Luzern)!

Both institutions provided an initial small data set for the 2020 period.

Contact Person for all Lucerne institutions (HSLU, PHLU, Lucerne University) is Simone Rosenkranz.

Cost data

PHLU

The initial data set for the PHLU covers publication fees for one article published in 2020:

University of Lucerne

The data set for the University of Lucerne covers fees for 3 articles:

FWF reports expenditures on APCs and BPCs

The FWF (Austrian Science fund) has updated its data on both APC and BPC expenditures.

Contact person is Katharina Rieck.

Cost Data

The new data set covers publication fees for 1,409 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 2,788,484€ and the average fee is 1,979€. In 2014, the FWF introduced price caps for gold OA (EUR 2500) and for hybrid OA (EUR 1500). Whenever costs exceed those caps, FWF funded authors can use other sources to cover the additional costs. In order to avoid distortions regarding mean values in the OpenAPC data set the FWF set does not include articles where these caps apply and where the additional costs were paid by other sources.

In addition, the FWF also reported cost data on BPC expenditures for the first time. These records are not listed here, but they can be inspected in the according BPC treemap section.

The following table shows the APC payments the FWF has made to publishers in 2019 (including taxes and discounts).

With the recent contributions included, the overall APC data for the FWF now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

Ulm University reports its 2019 and 2020 APC expenditures

Ulm University has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2019 and 2020 periods.

Ulm’s Communication and Information Center (kiz) is in charge of the University’s University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme until 2016.

Contact person is Uli Hahn.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 248 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 441 701€ and the average fee is 1 781€.

The following table shows the payments the kiz has made to publishers in 2019 and 2020.

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Ulm now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)