28 Feb 2019
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)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

27 Feb 2019
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)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

26 Feb 2019
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)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
