26 Nov 2018
The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg has updated its APC expenditures. The lastest contribution provides additional articles for the 2018 period.
The BIS (Library and Information System) 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 Kim Braun.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 25 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 38 132€ and the average fee is 1 525€.
The following table shows the payments the BIS has made to publishers since Oldenburg’s last report.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Frontiers Media SA |
8 |
15788 |
1974 |
MDPI AG |
7 |
7052 |
1007 |
Springer Nature |
3 |
5217 |
1739 |
SAGE Publications |
2 |
1921 |
960 |
BMJ |
1 |
1809 |
1809 |
Copernicus GmbH |
1 |
985 |
985 |
Dove Medical Press Ltd. |
1 |
1902 |
1902 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
1920 |
1920 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
1 |
1538 |
1538 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the University of Oldenburg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

26 Nov 2018
The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
APC expenditures for 4 more institutions have now been made available to OpenAPC, completing the 2017 data report.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 87 articles published in 2017. Total expenditure amounts to 122 425€ and the average fee is 1 407€.
The data originates from the Université de Franche-Comté and the research institutes IRSTEA, INRIA and IFSTTAR.
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 |
18 |
25069 |
1393 |
Frontiers Media SA |
17 |
29556 |
1739 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
13 |
21185 |
1630 |
MDPI AG |
10 |
13858 |
1386 |
Copernicus GmbH |
4 |
6413 |
1603 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
4 |
6354 |
1588 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
2 |
3160 |
1580 |
Informa UK Limited |
2 |
2260 |
1130 |
PeerJ |
2 |
1683 |
841 |
Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) |
2 |
600 |
300 |
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) |
1 |
480 |
480 |
Asociación Ibérica de Limnología |
1 |
500 |
500 |
Cosmos Scholars Publishing House |
1 |
307 |
307 |
David Publishing Company |
1 |
855 |
855 |
Herbert Publications PVT LTD |
1 |
310 |
310 |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
1 |
1690 |
1690 |
IOP Publishing |
1 |
1560 |
1560 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
1463 |
1463 |
SAGE Publications |
1 |
1697 |
1697 |
Taiwan Association for Aerosol Research |
1 |
340 |
340 |
The Royal Society |
1 |
2040 |
2040 |
The Science and Information Organization |
1 |
296 |
296 |
Uopen Journals |
1 |
750 |
750 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

22 Nov 2018
The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
A large batch of APC data for the 2017 period has now been made available to OpenAPC, containing articles from 17 different institutions (with 5 contributing for the first time).
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 923 articles published in 2017. Total expenditure amounts to 1 683 510€ and the average fee is 1 824€.
The data originates from the following institutions:
- Université de Nantes
- Ecole normale supérieure de Paris
- ESPCI Paris
- Institut national polytechnique de Toulouse
- Aix-Marseille Université
- Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse
- Université de Bourgogne
- Université de Caen Normandie
- Université Clermont Auvergne
- Université de Poitiers
- Université Nice-Sophia-Antipolis
- Université de Rennes 1
- Université de Toulon
- CIRAD
- INSERM
- Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
- Université d’Angers
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Breakdown by publisher
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Springer Nature |
253 |
462363 |
1828 |
Frontiers Media SA |
137 |
247695 |
1808 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
135 |
208656 |
1546 |
Elsevier BV |
59 |
153226 |
2597 |
MDPI AG |
59 |
67971 |
1152 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
36 |
80640 |
2240 |
Impact Journals, LLC |
35 |
99652 |
2847 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
27 |
54453 |
2017 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
16 |
27402 |
1713 |
American Society for Microbiology |
13 |
13138 |
1011 |
American Society for Clinical Investigation |
11 |
42201 |
3836 |
Copernicus GmbH |
11 |
13000 |
1182 |
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) |
11 |
11800 |
1073 |
Informa UK Limited |
10 |
17023 |
1702 |
BMJ |
8 |
18416 |
2302 |
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd |
7 |
16756 |
2394 |
EMBO |
5 |
16500 |
3300 |
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, |
5 |
3051 |
610 |
AIP Publishing |
4 |
3225 |
806 |
Dove Medical Press Ltd. |
4 |
7064 |
1766 |
OMICS Publishing Group |
4 |
7582 |
1896 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
4 |
6941 |
1735 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
4 |
8348 |
2087 |
American Society of Hematology |
3 |
8412 |
2804 |
Ivyspring International Publisher |
3 |
6670 |
2223 |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |
3 |
4808 |
1603 |
Resilience Alliance, Inc. |
3 |
2558 |
853 |
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) |
2 |
6323 |
3161 |
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) |
2 |
6441 |
3220 |
Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. |
2 |
3846 |
1923 |
Genetics Society of America |
2 |
3329 |
1665 |
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
2 |
2469 |
1235 |
IOP Publishing |
2 |
3198 |
1599 |
Magnolia Press |
2 |
300 |
150 |
MyJove Corporation |
2 |
7016 |
3508 |
Ommega Online Publishers |
2 |
963 |
481 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
2 |
1140 |
570 |
SAGE Publications |
2 |
3852 |
1926 |
Sciaccess, Inc. |
2 |
2134 |
1067 |
Scientific Societies |
2 |
740 |
370 |
Society for Neuroscience |
2 |
3621 |
1811 |
Spandidos Publications |
2 |
2995 |
1498 |
The Company of Biologists |
2 |
5095 |
2548 |
Academic Journals |
1 |
300 |
300 |
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) |
1 |
300 |
300 |
American Meteorological Society |
1 |
3307 |
3307 |
American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) |
1 |
2228 |
2228 |
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. |
1 |
800 |
800 |
BioResources |
1 |
902 |
902 |
Canadian Center of Science and Education |
1 |
333 |
333 |
e-Century Publishing Corporation |
1 |
1598 |
1598 |
International Scientific Information, Inc. |
1 |
688 |
688 |
Isaac Scientific Publishing Co., Ltd. |
1 |
225 |
225 |
Japan Epidemiological Association |
1 |
909 |
909 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
1 |
1605 |
1605 |
Macrothink Institute, Inc. |
1 |
91 |
91 |
Mary Ann Liebert Inc |
1 |
1000 |
1000 |
MedCrave Group, LLC |
1 |
699 |
699 |
Pensoft Publishers |
1 |
255 |
255 |
Remedy Publications |
1 |
1565 |
1565 |
S. Karger AG |
1 |
1950 |
1950 |
Shared Science Publishers OG |
1 |
502 |
502 |
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng |
1 |
902 |
902 |
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. |
1 |
339 |
339 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
