23 Feb 2018
The Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2017 period.
The University Library of Erlangen-Nürnberg 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 Markus Putnings.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 168 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 259 410€ and the average fee is 1 544€.
The following table shows the payments the FAU has made to publishers in 2017.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Springer Nature |
63 |
100654 |
1598 |
Frontiers Media SA |
33 |
56562 |
1714 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
20 |
33001 |
1650 |
MDPI AG |
17 |
20662 |
1215 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
8 |
10761 |
1345 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
7 |
8715 |
1245 |
Dove Medical Press Ltd. |
4 |
7429 |
1857 |
Elsevier BV |
2 |
2615 |
1308 |
IOP Publishing |
2 |
2785 |
1392 |
S. Karger AG |
2 |
1307 |
653 |
American Chemical Society (ACS) |
1 |
1600 |
1600 |
Hikari, Ltd. |
1 |
570 |
570 |
Impact Journals, LLC |
1 |
1999 |
1999 |
Ivyspring International Publisher |
1 |
1783 |
1783 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
1 |
1608 |
1608 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
1 |
1756 |
1756 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
1929 |
1929 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
1 |
649 |
649 |
SAGE Publications |
1 |
1809 |
1809 |
Sciaccess Publishers LLC |
1 |
1215 |
1215 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Erlangen-Nürnberg now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

21 Feb 2018
The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) has reported more 2017 expenditures for eLife, MPDI, IOP, PLoS and SPIE journals.
MPDL provides institutional funding for Open Access publications for researchers affiliated with the Max Planck Society. MPDL makes use of central agreements with Open Access publishers.
Please note that article processing charges funded locally by Max Planck Institutes are not part of this data set. The Max Planck Society has a limited input tax reduction. The refund of input VAT for APC is 20%.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 146 articles published by MPG researchers with the aforementioned publishers. Total expenditure amounts to 226 094€ and the average fee is 1 549€.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
PLOS ONE |
54 |
81274 |
1505 |
New Journal of Physics |
40 |
43956 |
1099 |
eLife |
14 |
34317 |
2451 |
PLOS Computational Biology |
9 |
19927 |
2214 |
Entropy |
4 |
5416 |
1354 |
International Journal of Molecular Sciences |
4 |
6747 |
1687 |
PLOS Genetics |
3 |
6603 |
2201 |
PLOS Biology |
2 |
5747 |
2874 |
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases |
2 |
4566 |
2283 |
Polymers |
2 |
2645 |
1322 |
Remote Sensing |
2 |
3023 |
1511 |
Climate |
1 |
331 |
331 |
Crystals |
1 |
945 |
945 |
Genes |
1 |
756 |
756 |
Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems |
1 |
946 |
946 |
Journal of Biomedical Optics |
1 |
1034 |
1034 |
Molecules |
1 |
1700 |
1700 |
Neurophotonics |
1 |
936 |
936 |
PLOS Pathogens |
1 |
2202 |
2202 |
Sensors |
1 |
1700 |
1700 |
Toxins |
1 |
1322 |
1322 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the MPG now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

16 Feb 2018
The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) has reported its expenditures on Copernicus journals for the second half of 2017.
MPDL provides institutional funding for Open Access publications for researchers affiliated with the Max Planck Society. MPDL makes use of central agreements with Open Access publishers.
Please note that article processing charges funded locally by Max Planck Institutes are not part of this data set. The Max Planck Society has a limited input tax reduction. The refund of input VAT for APC is 20%.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 27 articles published by MPG researchers in Copernicus journals. Total expenditure amounts to 49 484€ and the average fee is 1 833€.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics |
14 |
24797 |
1771 |
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques |
4 |
6273 |
1568 |
Biogeosciences |
2 |
3957 |
1979 |
Earth System Dynamics |
2 |
2534 |
1267 |
Geoscientific Model Development |
2 |
4147 |
2074 |
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences |
2 |
5495 |
2748 |
The Cryosphere |
1 |
2281 |
2281 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the MPG now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
