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)

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)
