Charité joins OpenAPC

We welcome the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin as new contributing institution!

The Charité Medical Library is in charge of the institution’s Open Access Publication Funds, which is receiving support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.

Contact Person is Steffi Grimm.

Cost data

The initial data set provided by the Charité Medical Library covers publication fees for 232 articles published in 2018. Total expenditure amounts to 381 125€ and the average fee is 1 643€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 72 132198 1836
Springer Nature 50 81537 1631
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 36 54761 1521
MDPI AG 17 25091 1476
BMJ 10 16169 1617
Wiley-Blackwell 7 12009 1716
Elsevier BV 6 10236 1706
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 6 8092 1349
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 4 7468 1867
Ivyspring International Publisher 3 3296 1099
SAGE Publications 3 2816 939
American Society for Microbiology 2 3421 1711
Impact Journals, LLC 2 4083 2042
JMIR Publications Inc. 2 3312 1656
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 3427 1714
S. Karger AG 2 2812 1406
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 1 1929 1929
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 1 1916 1916
Informa UK Limited 1 1919 1919
International Scientific Information, Inc. 1 1002 1002
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1703 1703
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 505 505
Pan African Medical Journal 1 184 184
PeerJ 1 1237 1237

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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GIGA reports its 2018 APC expenditures

The GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2018 period.

The GIGA Information Centre manages the institution’s APC expenditures in accordance with the GIGA Open Access Guidelines.

Contact Person is Jan Lüth.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 8 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 21 488€ and the average fee is 2 686€.

The following table shows the payments the GIGA Information Centre has made to publishers in 2018.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2 4754 2377
Elsevier BV 2 4987 2494
Oxford University Press (OUP) 2 6094 3047
Project Muse 1 2666 2666
SAGE Publications 1 2987 2987

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the GIGA 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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JGU Mainz reports its 2018 APC expenditures

The JGU Mainz has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2018 period.

Mainz University Library is in charge of the institution’s Open Access Publication Funds, which is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.

Contact person is Karin Eckert.

Cost data

The new dataset covers publication fees for 79 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 121 125€ and the average fee is 1 533€.

The following table shows the payments Mainz University Library has made to publishers in 2018.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 21 35961 1712
Springer Nature 18 28968 1609
MDPI AG 9 12089 1343
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 8 11853 1482
Copernicus GmbH 4 6551 1638
Kernel Press UG (haftungsbeschrankt) 4 1600 400
Elsevier BV 3 4585 1528
BMJ 2 3236 1618
JMIR Publications Inc. 2 3895 1947
BioScientifica 1 1409 1409
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1488 1488
IOP Publishing 1 1404 1404
Oxford University Press (OUP) 1 1741 1741
Pensoft Publishers 1 1782 1782
S. Karger AG 1 1210 1210
The Company of Biologists 1 1532 1532
Wiley-Blackwell 1 1821 1821

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Mainz 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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