MDC reports its 2018 APC expenditures

The Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) has reported its APC expenditures for the 2018 period.

Contact person is Dr.Dorothea Busjahn.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 45 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 122 879€ and the average fee is 2 731€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 15 39350 2623
Elsevier BV 12 44591 3716
Frontiers Media SA 5 8789 1758
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 5436 2718
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2 2506 1253
AIP Publishing 1 904 904
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 1 2006 2006
EMBO 1 4700 4700
F1000 Research, Ltd. 1 842 842
MDPI AG 1 1138 1138
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 4700 4700
Rockefeller University Press 1 4365 4365
Sciencematters 1 515 515
The Company of Biologists 1 3037 3037

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the MDC 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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Humboldt University of Berlin joins OpenAPC

We welcome the Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin) as new contributing institution!

The University Library of HU Berlin is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported under the DFG’s Open Access Publishing Programme.

Institutional contact for the data set is the HU Library Open Access Team.

About the data set

The initial data set contributed by the HU Berlin contains information on publication fees paid in 2018. Please note that the data originates not only from the institutional DFG Publication Fund, but also from other OA funds at HU Berlin.

Cost Data

The data covers publication fees for 46 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 54 372€ and the average fee is 1 182€.

The following table and plots provide an overview:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Informa UK Limited 21 13878 661
Frontiers Media SA 10 20092 2009
Springer Nature 6 9289 1548
MDPI AG 2 2017 1009
American Society for Microbiology 1 1991 1991
Copernicus GmbH 1 1881 1881
Elsevier BV 1 2051 2051
Kritische Geographie Berlin e.V. 1 400 400
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1229 1229
Schweizerbart 1 1092 1092
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 1 452 452

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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PIK joins OpenAPC

We welcome the PIK (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research) as new contributing institution!

The Library Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein already provides OpenAPC with APC data for the GFZ Potsdam and has now also reported data on APC expenditures at the PIK for the first time.

Contact person for both data sets is Roland Bertelmann.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 49 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 82 579€ and the average fee is 1 685€.

The following table and plots shows the payments the Library Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein has made to publishers on behalf of the PIK in 2018:

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Copernicus GmbH 19 33339 1755
IOP Publishing 10 15494 1549
Springer Nature 7 14482 2069
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 3 3753 1251
Elsevier BV 2 2533 1267
MDPI AG 2 2038 1019
Wiley-Blackwell 2 3110 1555
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 3288 3288
Informa UK Limited 1 2150 2150
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1282 1282
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 1 1110 1110

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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