IUPUI joins OpenAPC

We welcome the Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) as new contributing institution!

The IUPUI University Library operates the University’s Open Access Fund, which underwrites publication fees for articles published in eligible open access journals.

Contact Person is Jere Odell.

Cost data

The initial dataset provided by the IUPUI covers publication fees for 116 articles published from 2013 to 2018. Total expenditure amounts to 169 618€ and the average fee is 1 462€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 29 35053 1209
Springer Nature 28 49214 1758
Wiley-Blackwell 8 13515 1689
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 7 9112 1302
JMIR Publications Inc. 7 12245 1749
Elsevier BV 6 12023 2004
MDPI AG 6 5002 834
Frontiers Media SA 5 7837 1567
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 3 5223 1741
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 2 3010 1505
PeerJ 2 1056 528
Springer Science + Business Media 2 3148 1574
AIP Publishing 1 1208 1208
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 2759 2759
BMJ 1 1490 1490
Cogitatio 1 905 905
Georg Thieme Verlag KG 1 1561 1561
Informa UK Limited 1 417 417
IOP Publishing 1 1175 1175
JScholar 1 664 664
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 1 1101 1101
SAGE Publications 1 1623 1623
Sciedu Press 1 277 277

Overview

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

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) updates its APC expenditures

The UFZ (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research) has replaced its previous APC data with a new version.

The UFZ Library manages the institute’s expenditures for Open Access publishing.

Contact person is Ilka Rudolf.

About the dataset

The new data set contributed by the UFZ contains information on publication fees paid from 2014 to 2017.

Cost Data

The new data covers publication fees for 98 articles. It replaces 40 existing UFZ entries, leading to a net increase of 58 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 119 123€ and the average fee is 1 216€.

The following table and plots show the payments the UFZ Library has made to publishers from 2014 to 2017.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Copernicus GmbH 24 27828 1160
Springer Nature 22 26002 1182
MDPI AG 18 18112 1006
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 12 15557 1296
Frontiers Media SA 11 18234 1658
Wiley-Blackwell 11 13390 1217

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 the Université Clermont Auvergne

The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France. Another data delivery has now been made to OpenAPC, containing articles for one more institution.

Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.

Cost data

The new data set provided by Couperin covers publication fees for 14 articles published in 2015. Total expenditure amounts to 22 368€ and the average fee is 1 598€.

The data originates from the Université Clermont Auvergne.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 4 5400 1350
Springer Nature 3 7025 2342
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, 2 1998 999
American Society for Microbiology 1 3000 3000
Dove Medical Press Ltd. 1 1595 1595
Frontiers Media SA 1 1600 1600
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1 1500 1500
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 250 250

Overview

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

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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