Heidelberg University updates its APC expenditures for 2016, 2017 and 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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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MDC reports its 2017 APC expenditures

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)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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TU Braunschweig joins OpenAPC

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)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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