12 Mar 2018
Heidelberg University has updated its APC expenditures. The recent contribution contains Heidelberg’s APC data for the 2017 and 2018 periods and adds additional data for 2016.
The University Library Heidelberg 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 Dr. Jochen Apel.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 221 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 327 809€ and the average fee is 1 483€.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Springer Nature |
91 |
148349 |
1630 |
MDPI AG |
26 |
30012 |
1154 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
25 |
38927 |
1557 |
Frontiers Media SA |
21 |
33329 |
1587 |
Elsevier BV |
9 |
8817 |
980 |
Copernicus GmbH |
7 |
9835 |
1405 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
7 |
11168 |
1595 |
BMJ |
6 |
9120 |
1520 |
Dove Medical Press Ltd. |
5 |
8344 |
1669 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
3 |
4116 |
1372 |
PeerJ |
3 |
2368 |
789 |
Joule Inc. |
2 |
2841 |
1421 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
2 |
2596 |
1298 |
Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
2 |
1666 |
833 |
Acta Dermato-Venereologica |
1 |
1785 |
1785 |
AME Publishing Company |
1 |
889 |
889 |
Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
1 |
1598 |
1598 |
Cogitatio |
1 |
952 |
952 |
Informa UK Limited |
1 |
1898 |
1898 |
International Institute of Anticancer Research |
1 |
574 |
574 |
Medknow |
1 |
462 |
462 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
1 |
1991 |
1991 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
1488 |
1488 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
1 |
674 |
674 |
SAGE Publications |
1 |
2011 |
2011 |
University of Chicago Press |
1 |
1999 |
1999 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Heidelberg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

08 Mar 2018
The Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) has reported its APC expenditures for the 2017 period.
Contact person is Dr.Dorothea Busjahn.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 26 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 57 664€ and the average fee is 2 218€.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Springer Nature |
14 |
28628 |
2045 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
3 |
6224 |
2075 |
Frontiers Media SA |
2 |
3695 |
1848 |
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. |
1 |
730 |
730 |
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press |
1 |
4197 |
4197 |
eLife Sciences Organisation, Ltd. |
1 |
2200 |
2200 |
Elsevier BV |
1 |
3140 |
3140 |
EMBO |
1 |
3300 |
3300 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
2730 |
2730 |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |
1 |
2820 |
2820 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the MDC now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

07 Mar 2018
We welcome the Technische Universität Braunschweig as new contributing institution!
Braunschweig 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 Carsten Elsner.
Cost data
The initial dataset provided by Braunschweig University Library covers publication fees for 33 articles published in 2017. Total expenditure amounts to 40 822€ and the average fee is 1 237€.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) |
6 |
1263 |
210 |
Springer Nature |
5 |
9238 |
1848 |
Frontiers Media SA |
4 |
6982 |
1746 |
MDPI AG |
4 |
3484 |
871 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
4 |
6391 |
1598 |
Copernicus GmbH |
2 |
3535 |
1768 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
2 |
2834 |
1417 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
826 |
826 |
Impact Journals, LLC |
1 |
1859 |
1859 |
Kritische Geographie Berlin e.V. |
1 |
200 |
200 |
PeerJ |
1 |
1154 |
1154 |
Schattauer GmbH |
1 |
1767 |
1767 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
1 |
1289 |
1289 |
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
