02 May 2019
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)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

02 May 2019
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)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

29 Apr 2019
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)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
