University of Oldenburg updates its APC expenditures

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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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Couperin.org provides APC data for 4 more institutions

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)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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2017 data for several French institutions contributed by Couperin.org

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)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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