21 May 2019
We welcome the IAB (Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung) as new contributing institution!
The IAB is a research institute and special office of the German Federal Employment Agency.
Contact person for the IAB data is Friedrich Riedel.
Cost Data
The data covers publication fees for 11 articles paid for in 2018. Total expenditure amounts to 26 892€ and the average fee is 2 445€.
The following table and plots show the payments the IAB has made to publishers in 2018.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Springer Nature |
3 |
7854 |
2618 |
Informa UK Limited |
2 |
5266 |
2633 |
Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
1 |
2510 |
2510 |
Nomos Verlag |
1 |
2124 |
2124 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
2707 |
2707 |
SAGE Publications |
1 |
1076 |
1076 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
1 |
2380 |
2380 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
1 |
2975 |
2975 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

17 May 2019
We welcome the University of Debrecen as new participant and as our first contributor from Hungary!
The Debrecen University Library has collected and reported APCs paid at the institution in 2018.
Contact person is Kálmán Szőke.
Cost Data
The data covers publication fees for 114 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 174 072€ and the average fee is 1 527€.
The following table and plots show the payments the university has made to publishers in 2018.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
30 |
46407 |
1547 |
Springer Nature |
19 |
36438 |
1918 |
EDP Sciences |
9 |
617 |
69 |
Frontiers Media SA |
8 |
23245 |
2906 |
Elsevier BV |
6 |
7294 |
1216 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
6 |
11584 |
1931 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
6 |
9564 |
1594 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
6 |
9855 |
1643 |
Czestochowa University of Technology |
2 |
572 |
286 |
FapUNIFESP (SciELO) |
2 |
986 |
493 |
Informa UK Limited |
2 |
3573 |
1786 |
Pensoft Publishers |
2 |
1292 |
646 |
Spandidos Publications |
2 |
2351 |
1175 |
AcademicPres (EAP) Publishing House |
1 |
254 |
254 |
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. |
1 |
2556 |
2556 |
Centre of Sociological Research, NGO |
1 |
444 |
444 |
Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences |
1 |
254 |
254 |
Czech Botanical Society |
1 |
483 |
483 |
Emerald |
1 |
2523 |
2523 |
Impact Journals, LLC |
1 |
3689 |
3689 |
MyJove Corporation |
1 |
3344 |
3344 |
OMICS Publishing Group |
1 |
1812 |
1812 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
1524 |
1524 |
PeerJ |
1 |
1387 |
1387 |
Polskie Towarzystwo Biochemiczne (Polish Biochemical Society) |
1 |
965 |
965 |
Technical University of Liberec |
1 |
210 |
210 |
Virtus Interpress |
1 |
851 |
851 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

15 May 2019
The Fraunhofer Society has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2018 period.
Since 2017 the Fraunhofer publishing fund provides central funding for Gold OA publications, this data has now been made available to OpenAPC. Please note that this data set does not contain APCs funded locally by Fraunhofer institutes.
Contact Person is Stefanie Seeh.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 52 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 66 191€ and the average fee is 1 273€.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
MDPI AG |
23 |
20311 |
883 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
12 |
19151 |
1596 |
Frontiers Media SA |
5 |
7983 |
1597 |
Springer Nature |
5 |
7230 |
1446 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
3 |
3820 |
1273 |
AIP Publishing |
1 |
1890 |
1890 |
Elsevier BV |
1 |
3093 |
3093 |
MedCrave Group, LLC |
1 |
854 |
854 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
1 |
1859 |
1859 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Fraunhofer publishing fund now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
