24 May 2019
The UFZ (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research) has replaced its previous APC data with a new version.
The UFZ Library manages the institute’s expenditures for Open Access publishing.
Contact person is Ilka Rudolf.
About the dataset
The new data set contributed by the UFZ contains information on publication fees paid from 2012 to 2019.
Cost Data
The new data covers publication fees for 145 articles. It replaces 98 existing UFZ entries, leading to a net increase of 47 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 187 249€ and the average fee is 1 291€.
The following table and plots show the payments the UFZ Library has made to publishers from 2012 to 2019.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
47 |
48380 |
1029 |
Copernicus GmbH |
40 |
46049 |
1151 |
Frontiers Media SA |
31 |
56315 |
1817 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
22 |
28649 |
1302 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
5 |
7855 |
1571 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

24 May 2019
The Justus Liebig University Gießen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2018 and 2019 periods.
The JLU University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.
Contact person is Florian Ruckelshausen.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 78 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 122 934€ and the average fee is 1 576€.
The following table shows the payments the JLU library has made to publishers since their last report.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Springer Nature |
28 |
44022 |
1572 |
Frontiers Media SA |
17 |
33139 |
1949 |
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) |
7 |
13820 |
1974 |
MDPI AG |
6 |
7152 |
1192 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
5 |
8014 |
1603 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
2 |
1587 |
794 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
2 |
3775 |
1887 |
Acta Dermato-Venereologica |
1 |
1696 |
1696 |
AIP Publishing |
1 |
1414 |
1414 |
Akademiai Kiado Zrt. |
1 |
589 |
589 |
Cogitatio |
1 |
536 |
536 |
EDP Sciences |
1 |
1071 |
1071 |
Ivyspring International Publisher |
1 |
447 |
447 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
2281 |
2281 |
PAGEPress Publications |
1 |
750 |
750 |
PeerJ |
1 |
988 |
988 |
Pensoft Publishers |
1 |
654 |
654 |
Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) |
1 |
1000 |
1000 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the JLU now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

22 May 2019
The Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2018 period.
The University Library of Erlangen-Nürnberg 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 Markus Putnings.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 212 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 328 661€ and the average fee is 1 550€.
The following table shows the payments the FAU has made to publishers in 2018.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Springer Nature |
66 |
107256 |
1625 |
Frontiers Media SA |
44 |
79010 |
1796 |
MDPI AG |
37 |
44768 |
1210 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
14 |
21395 |
1528 |
Dove Medical Press Ltd. |
7 |
13280 |
1897 |
Elsevier BV |
7 |
8114 |
1159 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
7 |
8418 |
1203 |
Ivyspring International Publisher |
3 |
5925 |
1975 |
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) |
2 |
3247 |
1623 |
BMJ |
2 |
3289 |
1645 |
Copernicus GmbH |
2 |
3052 |
1526 |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
2 |
3530 |
1765 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
2 |
3430 |
1715 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
2 |
1303 |
652 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
2 |
3276 |
1638 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
1 |
1512 |
1512 |
Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
1 |
1802 |
1802 |
Cogitatio |
1 |
1071 |
1071 |
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd |
1 |
1976 |
1976 |
Georg Thieme Verlag KG |
1 |
1964 |
1964 |
Impact Journals, LLC |
1 |
1966 |
1966 |
Informa UK Limited |
1 |
500 |
500 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
1 |
1987 |
1987 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
1741 |
1741 |
PAGEPress Publications |
1 |
714 |
714 |
S. Karger AG |
1 |
1743 |
1743 |
SAGE Publications |
1 |
607 |
607 |
University of Uludag |
1 |
1785 |
1785 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Erlangen-Nürnberg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
