14 May 2019
The University of Trier has updated its APC expenditures, providing data for the 2018 period.
The Trier University Library 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 Dr. Evgenia Grishina.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 13 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 19 834€ and the average fee is 1 526€.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Springer Nature |
5 |
7366 |
1473 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
3 |
4633 |
1544 |
Frontiers Media SA |
2 |
3675 |
1838 |
Copernicus GmbH |
1 |
1374 |
1374 |
MDPI AG |
1 |
573 |
573 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
1 |
2212 |
2212 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Trier now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

10 May 2019
The Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2018 period.
The MLU University and State Library (ULB) 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 Roberto Cozatl.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 60 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 106 598€ and the average fee is 1 777€.
The following table shows the payments the ULB has made to publishers in 2018.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Springer Nature |
15 |
31348 |
2090 |
MDPI AG |
12 |
13476 |
1123 |
Frontiers Media SA |
11 |
24679 |
2244 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
6 |
9400 |
1567 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
5 |
9338 |
1868 |
American Society for Microbiology |
2 |
3345 |
1672 |
Dove Medical Press Ltd. |
2 |
3566 |
1783 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
2 |
1805 |
902 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
1 |
1533 |
1533 |
BMJ |
1 |
1696 |
1696 |
Impact Journals, LLC |
1 |
3436 |
3436 |
IOP Publishing |
1 |
1392 |
1392 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
1 |
1584 |
1584 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the MLU now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

08 May 2019
The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
Additional APC expenditures by the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) and the Université Paris Diderot (Paris VII) have now been made available to OpenAPC.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 26 articles published in 2017. Total expenditure amounts to 42 894€ and the average fee is 1 650€.
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data sets provides the following overview:
Breakdown by publisher
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Springer Nature |
12 |
22159 |
1847 |
Frontiers Media SA |
3 |
2973 |
991 |
SAGE Publications |
2 |
2675 |
1338 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
1 |
466 |
466 |
Dove Medical Press Ltd. |
1 |
1318 |
1318 |
Ivyspring International Publisher |
1 |
1436 |
1436 |
MDPI AG |
1 |
1387 |
1387 |
Elsevier BV |
1 |
2871 |
2871 |
Impact Journals, LLC |
1 |
2659 |
2659 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
1 |
1637 |
1637 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
1 |
1338 |
1338 |
Society for Neuroscience |
1 |
1975 |
1975 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
