New APC data harvested from Bielefeld University using the openCost data format

New APC data has been harvested from the institutional repository of Bielefeld University, which had shifted to APC data provision via OAI-PMH. The data has been delivered in the openCost format for publication cost data.

Bielefeld University Library is in charge of Bielefeld University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publication Funding Programme.

Contact person is Dirk Pieper.

Cost data

The data ingestion covers publication fees for 1,294 articles, replacing the old harvest data for Bielefeld University. Total expenditure amounts to 2 220 862€ and the average fee is 1 716€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 365 599209 1642
Frontiers Media SA 311 623571 2005
MDPI AG 262 449764 1717
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 134 203076 1515
Wiley-Blackwell 51 90324 1771
Informa UK Limited 26 41295 1588
American Society for Microbiology 14 11677 834
BMJ 11 24385 2217
Cogitatio 10 3360 336
Elsevier BV 10 19661 1966
Oxford University Press (OUP) 9 19556 2173
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 8 12294 1537
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 7 7721 1103
IOP Publishing 5 6444 1289
SAGE Publications 5 5755 1151
JMIR Publications Inc. 4 10964 2741
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 3 10382 3461
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 3 3263 1088
OMICS Publishing Group 3 4107 1369
Optica Publishing Group 3 6415 2138
PeerJ 3 3118 1039
Syncsci Publishing Pte., Ltd. 3 1807 602
The Royal Society 3 3823 1274
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 3 2258 753
AIP Publishing 2 2970 1485
American Chemical Society (ACS) 2 2673 1336
American Physical Society (APS) 2 4231 2116
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2 3879 1940
Copernicus GmbH 2 3641 1820
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2 5653 2826
Eurasian Society of Educational Research 2 1245 622
Hogrefe Publishing Group 2 3480 1740
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2 2402 1201
University of Bern 2 785 392
American Medical Association (AMA) 1 3284 3284
Brill 1 744 744
Crimson Publishers 1 424 424
E.U. European Publishing 1 1184 1184
EMBO 1 4284 4284
F1000 Research, Ltd. 1 530 530
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 1732 1732
Korean Society for Microbiology and Biotechnology 1 1026 1026
Life Science Alliance, LLC 1 2313 2313
MIT Press - Journals 1 845 845
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 2045 2045
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1 1011 1011
Science Publishing Group 1 1250 1250
Scientific & Academic Publishing 1 139 139
SEAS - Society for South East Asian Studies 1 714 714
The Company of Biologists 1 2380 2380
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University 1 1531 1531
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 238 238

Overview

The overall APC data for Bielefeld now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (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 data 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 Ville Hämäläinen.

Cost data

The updated data set provided by the CSC covers publication fees for 3,462 articles published between 2017 and 2024, replacing the previous CSC data. Total expenditure amounts to 6,480,004€ and the average fee is 1,872€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 878 1369497 1560
Elsevier BV 490 777380 1586
Springer Nature 412 960970 2332
Frontiers Media SA 410 859532 2096
Informa UK Limited 167 370911 2221
IEEE 130 190451 1465
Wiley-Blackwell 101 278154 2754
Copernicus GmbH 64 109226 1707
American Physical Society (APS) 59 130433 2211
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 57 105898 1858
Oxford University Press (OUP) 49 130665 2667
IOP Publishing 48 93578 1950
SAGE Publications 40 64143 1604
AIP Publishing 31 77486 2500
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 31 50245 1621
JMIR Publications Inc. 29 65861 2271
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 28 65210 2329
BioResources 21 27287 1299
AAAS 20 64890 3244
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 20 18986 949
Optica Publishing Group 18 35707 1984
American Chemical Society (ACS) 17 46254 2721
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 17 20301 1194
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) 16 36512 2282
American Society for Microbiology 16 39484 2468
BMJ 16 35552 2222
Finnish Society of Forest Science 14 12400 886
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 14 25952 1854
The Royal Society 14 23843 1703
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 9 29921 3325
Audio Engineering Society 8 7877 985
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 7 14763 2109
American Astronomical Society 6 18360 3060
Canadian Science Publishing 6 20894 3482
Pensoft Publishers 6 7003 1167
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 6 18040 3007
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 6 4483 747
IOS Press 5 5020 1004
Stockholm University Press 5 3143 629
American Physiological Society 4 12385 3096
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 4 7243 1811
Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library 4 1315 329
EDP Sciences 4 3305 826
Human Kinetics 4 9615 2404
Intellect 4 4716 1179
Mary Ann Liebert Inc 4 14306 3576
Virtus Interpress 4 2130 532
American Dairy Science Association 3 5465 1822
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 3 5215 1738
Bristol University Press 3 5274 1758
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 3 8577 2859
Institute of Mathematical Statistics 3 1765 588
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 3 5956 1985
International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) 3 1255 418
IWA Publishing 3 5400 1800
MIT Press - Journals 3 4090 1363
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 3 1181 394
Termedia Sp. z.o.o. 3 1200 400
The Company of Biologists 3 11326 3775
American Society for Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) 2 3877 1938
American Vacuum Society 2 4036 2018
AOSIS 2 1470 735
BioScientifica 2 4664 2332
Cappelen Damm AS - Cappelen Damm Akademisk 2 1220 610
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 2 6748 3374
EARLI 2 400 200
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2 6853 3426
Inderscience Publishers 2 4471 2236
Informing Science Institute 2 130 65
Inter-Research Science Center 2 4732 2366
lnternational Electronic Journal of Elementary Education 2 661 330
MIS Quarterly 2 4754 2377
MyJove Corporation 2 7484 3742
Optical Society of America (OSA) 2 3555 1778
Research Trends, Ltd. 2 873 436
Society for Neuroscience 2 7081 3540
sPage.direcT 2 1504 752
University of California Press 2 2413 1206
University of Uludag 2 3650 1825
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 1 4707 4707
American Medical Association (AMA) 1 2875 2875
American Psychological Association (APA) 1 2731 2731
American Society for Clinical Investigation 1 5010 5010
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) 1 1220 1220
American Society of Hematology 1 2904 2904
American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR) 1 692 692
American Speech Language Hearing Association 1 1812 1812
ASME International 1 2576 2576
ASTES Journal 1 350 350
Austin Publishing Group 1 1046 1046
Bastas Publications 1 620 620
Boffin Access 1 1200 1200
Brill 1 380 380
CAD Solutions, LLC 1 300 300
Center for Transportation Studies 1 951 951
Computers, Materials and Continua (Tech Science Press) 1 1190 1190
Consulting and Training Center Key 1 100 100
De Gruyter 1 1190 1190
e-Century Publishing Corporation 1 1718 1718
Edinburgh University Press 1 1110 1110
Emerald 1 2648 2648
Equinox Publishing 1 1841 1841
Forest Products Society 1 1500 1500
Future Science, LTD 1 1509 1509
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 2440 2440
IGI Global 1 2300 2300
International Journal of Technology 1 480 480
International Society for Gerontechnology (ISG) 1 600 600
International Society of Musculoskeletal and Neuronal Interactions 1 250 250
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 2184 2184
ISEKI Food Association 1 400 400
JVE International Ltd. 1 500 500
Lexxion Verlag 1 1488 1488
MedCrave Group, LLC 1 703 703
Medwin Publishers 1 1216 1216
Mineralogical Society 1 2643 2643
MIT Press 1 1492 1492
Mohr Siebeck 1 902 902
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology 1 843 843
Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine 1 820 820
North American Business Press 1 500 500
Open Access Publishing Group 1 77 77
Pacini Editore 1 300 300
PAGEPress Publications 1 416 416
PeerJ 1 1365 1365
Philosophy Documentation Center 1 1197 1197
Polish Academy of Sciences Chancellery 1 276 276
Project MUSE 1 2842 2842
REF Press 1 430 430
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 1 1429 1429
Rockefeller University Press 1 2352 2352
Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS 1 1658 1658
Schweizerbart 1 1490 1490
Science Publishing Group 1 884 884
SSE-UK 1 179 179
Taiwan Association for Aerosol Research 1 497 497
Thomas Telford Ltd. 1 2132 2132
University of Boras, Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT 1 150 150
University of Georgia 1 340 340
University of Pitesti 1 120 120
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University 1 702 702
World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS) 1 620 620

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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Freie Universität Berlin reports its 2023 APC expenditures

The Freie Universität Berlin has updated its APC expenditures, providing cost data for the 2023 period.

The University Library of Freie Universität Berlin is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publication Fund, which receives support by the DFG under its Open Access Publication Funding Programme.

Contact person is Birgit Schlegel.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 148 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 334 452€ and the average fee is 2 260€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 43 84939 1975
Springer Nature 39 118784 3046
Frontiers Media SA 15 32702 2180
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 9 18719 2080
Wiley-Blackwell 8 21249 2656
AIP Publishing 6 10024 1671
Copernicus GmbH 6 10167 1695
Elsevier BV 4 7211 1803
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 3 5160 1720
American Dairy Science Association 2 3400 1700
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 4561 2280
Pensoft Publishers 2 2353 1177
Verein zur Forderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften 2 1071 536
American Society for Microbiology 1 2327 2327
American Vacuum Society 1 1666 1666
EMBO 1 4570 4570
Life Science Alliance, LLC 1 1942 1942
MIT Press 1 1744 1744
SAGE Publications 1 731 731
Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft 1 1130 1130

Overview

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

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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