IAB joins OpenAPC

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)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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University of Debrecen joins OpenAPC

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)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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Fraunhofer publishing fund reports its 2018 APC expenditures

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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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