TH Wildau joins OpenAPC

We welcome the Technische Hochschule Wildau as new contributing institution!

Wildau 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 Friederike Borchert.

Cost data

The initial data set provided by Wildau University Library covers publication fees for 4 articles published in 2018. Total expenditure amounts to 3 894€ and the average fee is 974€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 3 3453 1151
Elsevier BV 1 442 442

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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SNSF provides more APC data for 2017 and 2018

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has provided additional APC data for the 2017 and 2018 periods.

Within the framework of the SNSF’s OA policy, grantees are required to publish the results of their research in the form of Open Access publications. APC data on those publications is kindly made available to OpenAPC.

Contact Person for the SNSF is Christian Gutknecht.

Cost data

The new data set provided by the SNSF covers publication fees for 135 articles published in 2017 and 2018. Total expenditure amounts to 276 177€ and the average fee is 2 046€.

Overview

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

Breakdown by publisher

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 39 97873 2510
Elsevier BV 15 38399 2560
Frontiers Media SA 14 29696 2121
MDPI AG 12 12410 1034
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 12 20485 1707
Copernicus GmbH 6 10943 1824
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 3 11053 3684
BMJ 3 4408 1469
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 3 4304 1435
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 3 6437 2146
IOP Publishing 3 5098 1699
Optical Society of America (OSA) 3 5475 1825
Oxford University Press (OUP) 3 5525 1842
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2 3245 1622
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2 2828 1414
Wiley-Blackwell 2 2263 1131
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1308 1308
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 1 1537 1537
American Physical Society (APS) 1 2580 2580
American Society for Microbiology 1 2223 2223
Cogitatio 1 1143 1143
EMBO 1 3335 3335
Informa UK Limited 1 507 507
SAGE Publications 1 619 619
Schweizerbart 1 801 801
Society for Neuroscience 1 1683 1683

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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Couperin.org provides additional APC data for 2017

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

APC expenditures for 3 more institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, introducing one new participant.

Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.

Cost data

The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 46 articles published in 2017. Total expenditure amounts to 87 672€ and the average fee is 1 906€.

The data originates from the Hospices Civils de Lyon, the Université de Strasbourg, and the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle.

Overview

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

Breakdown by publisher

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Springer Nature 11 24605 2237
Frontiers Media SA 7 12884 1841
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 7 9897 1414
Elsevier BV 3 6735 2245
Wiley-Blackwell 3 3957 1319
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 2932 2932
American Chemical Society (ACS) 1 1000 1000
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 1 3600 3600
American Society for Microbiology 1 3000 3000
F1000 Research, Ltd. 1 1122 1122
Genetics Society of America 1 1815 1815
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 548 548
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 1950 1950
Mary Ann Liebert Inc 1 2523 2523
MDPI AG 1 1857 1857
Optical Society of America (OSA) 1 1333 1333
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 2202 2202
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 2480 2480
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 1 1030 1030
SAGE Publications 1 2200 2200

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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