Qatar National Library joins OpenAPC

We welcome the Qatar National Library (مكتبة قطر الوطنية) as new contributing institution and as our first participant from Asia!

Contact Person for the QNL is Milan Vasiljevic.

Cost data

The initial data set provided by the Qatar National Library covers publication fees for 30 articles published with 6 different publishers in 2018. Total expenditure amounts to 49 771€ and the average fee is 1 659€.

A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:

Publishers

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 11 26993 2454
MDPI AG 8 8804 1100
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 4 5154 1288
Springer Nature 4 4628 1157
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2 2758 1379
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 1 1434 1434

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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University of Rostock joins OpenAPC

We welcome the University of Rostock as new contributing institution!

The Rostock 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 Steffen Malo.

Cost data

The initial data set provided by Rostock University Library covers publication fees for 140 articles published in 2017 and 2018. Total expenditure amounts to 183 565€ and the average fee is 1 311€.

A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:

Publishers

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 39 42921 1101
Springer Nature 27 43166 1599
Frontiers Media SA 17 28924 1701
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 14 21672 1548
Elsevier BV 8 9210 1151
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 7 9523 1360
Oxford University Press (OUP) 3 3948 1316
Ronpub 3 635 212
Wiley-Blackwell 3 5099 1700
Copernicus GmbH 2 1502 751
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, 2 1500 750
Akademiai Kiado Zrt. 1 549 549
Bioflux 1 161 161
British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery 1 1299 1299
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1 1994 1994
David Publishing Company 1 299 299
e-Century Publishing Corporation 1 1770 1770
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 132 132
Ivyspring International Publisher 1 1775 1775
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1609 1609
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 1 680 680
S. Karger AG 1 624 624
Sciaccess Publishers LLC 1 1216 1216
Scitechnol Biosoft Pvt. Ltd. 1 1332 1332
The Company of Biologists 1 1428 1428
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 595 595

Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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Couperin.org provides additional APC data for the Université de Lorraine

The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.

The latest contribution provides additional APC data for the Université de Lorraine.

Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.

Cost data

The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 76 articles published at the Université de Lorraine in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2016. Total expenditure amounts to 86 395€ and the average fee is 1 137€.

Overview

A detailed analysis of the contributed data sets provides the following overview:

Breakdown by publisher

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 20 21890 1094
Frontiers Media SA 11 12996 1181
MDPI AG 9 8593 955
Springer Science + Business Media 9 15556 1728
Oxford University Press (OUP) 4 11577 2894
Copernicus GmbH 3 2730 910
Elsevier BV 3 1186 395
American Society for Microbiology 2 764 382
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2 940 470
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, 2 819 410
BMJ 1 1740 1740
EMW Publishing 1 573 573
ICI Bucharest 1 450 450
Informa UK Limited 1 500 500
IOS Press 1 600 600
Ivyspring International Publisher 1 1383 1383
Medknow 1 191 191
Nature Publishing Group 1 1046 1046
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1361 1361
Sciencedomain International 1 102 102
Springer Nature 1 1398 1398

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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