University of Siegen reports 2020 data

The University of Siegen has updated its expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2020 period on APCs, BPCs, and hybrid OA articles published under the Springer and Wiley DEAL agreements.

Siegen University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which received support under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme until 2019.

Contact person for the data set is Lena Vinnemann.

Cost Data

The new APC data set covers publication fees for 13 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 14 829€ and the average fee is 1 141€.

The following table provides an overview. Please note that neither articles published in hybrid journals under the DEAL agreement nor BPCs are included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements and BPC datasets, respectively.

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Siegen now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences joins OpenAPC

We welcome the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences as new contributing institution!

The ZHAW library operates an Open Access publication fund which provides support for Open Access publishing, an initial data set on funded articles has kindly been provided to OpenAPC.

Contact Person is Andrea Moritz.

Cost data

The initial data set covers publication fees for 0 articles published in 2021, total expenditure amounts to 0€ and the average fee is NaN€.

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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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CSC updates collected APC data for several Finnish institutions

The CSC – IT Center for Science has updated its data, providing more APC and BPC for Finnish HEIs.

The CSC is a non-profit government enterprise which provides IT support and services to Finnish academia and research institutes. It operates VIRTA, a centralized service tasked with collecting publication data from HEIs. VIRTA may also optionally collect cost data on OA publishing (APCs and BPCs), this data is made available to OpenAPC where permission was granted by the data providers.

Contact Person for the CSC is Olli Eskola.

Cost data

The updated data set provided by the CSC covers publication fees for 817 articles published between 2018 and 2021 by 10 different institutions, replacing the previous CSC data. Total expenditure amounts to 1,283,013€ and the average fee is 1,570€. The CSC also provided some BPC data for OA monographs (not shown here).

Overview

A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)