15 Jan 2018
The Open Access Publishing Fund of the Leibniz Association has updated its APC expenditures for the 2017 period.
Data is provided by Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB - German National Library of Science and Technology). TIB is operating the open access fund together with ZB MED (Leibniz Information Centre for Life Sciences) and ZBW (German National Library of Economics – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics).
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 131 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 197 254€ and the average fee is 1 506€.
To interpret the cost data correctly, please have a look at the funding policy of the Leibniz Association’s open access fund.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Springer Nature |
38 |
60711 |
1598 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
20 |
30231 |
1512 |
Frontiers Media SA |
16 |
30286 |
1893 |
MDPI AG |
15 |
18291 |
1219 |
Copernicus GmbH |
12 |
15446 |
1287 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
7 |
10687 |
1527 |
IOP Publishing |
4 |
6962 |
1740 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
4 |
6679 |
1670 |
Pensoft Publishers |
3 |
1567 |
522 |
Elsevier BV |
2 |
3563 |
1782 |
PeerJ |
2 |
2423 |
1211 |
AIP Publishing |
1 |
1416 |
1416 |
BioScientifica |
1 |
1547 |
1547 |
BMJ |
1 |
1726 |
1726 |
Informa UK Limited |
1 |
196 |
196 |
Inter-Research Science Center |
1 |
1606 |
1606 |
Ivyspring International Publisher |
1 |
1715 |
1715 |
The Royal Society |
1 |
1714 |
1714 |
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. |
1 |
487 |
487 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the Leibniz Association’s open access fund now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

08 Jan 2018
The University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation (TiHo) has reported its 2017 APC expenditures.
The TiHo Library is in charge of the institution’s Open Access Publication Funds, which is receiving support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.
Contact person is Dr. Julia Dickel.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 72 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 110 905€ and the average fee is 1 540€.
The following table shows the payments the TiHo Library has made to publishers in 2017.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Springer Nature |
31 |
43517 |
1404 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
15 |
24691 |
1646 |
Frontiers Media SA |
8 |
13925 |
1741 |
MDPI AG |
6 |
8389 |
1398 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
3 |
5913 |
1971 |
American Society for Microbiology |
2 |
5777 |
2888 |
PeerJ |
2 |
2501 |
1250 |
Elsevier BV |
1 |
1649 |
1649 |
Informa UK Limited |
1 |
524 |
524 |
Oxford University Press (OUP) |
1 |
1741 |
1741 |
The Company of Biologists |
1 |
1428 |
1428 |
The Korean Society of Veterinary Science (KAMJE) |
1 |
851 |
851 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for the TiHo now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

08 Jan 2018
The University of Duisburg-Essen has updated its APC expenditures, the latest contribution provides data for the 2017 period.
Duisburg-Essen University Library is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which is supported by the DFG under its Open-Access Publishing Programme.
Contact persons are Frank Lützenkirchen and Katrin Falkenstein-Feldhoff.
Cost data
The new dataset covers publication fees for 41 articles. Total expenditure amounts to 72 979€ and the average fee is 1 780€.
The following table shows the payments Duisburg-Essen University Library has made to publishers in 2017.
|
Articles |
Fees paid in EURO |
Mean Fee paid |
Springer Nature |
11 |
20859 |
1896 |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
6 |
9261 |
1544 |
Frontiers Media SA |
5 |
10489 |
2098 |
BMJ |
3 |
6897 |
2299 |
JMIR Publications Inc. |
2 |
5389 |
2694 |
MDPI AG |
2 |
2798 |
1399 |
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) |
2 |
3164 |
1582 |
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
2 |
1392 |
696 |
Wiley-Blackwell |
2 |
3701 |
1850 |
AIP Publishing |
1 |
1487 |
1487 |
Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
1 |
2149 |
2149 |
International Scientific Information, Inc. |
1 |
1136 |
1136 |
IOP Publishing |
1 |
1392 |
1392 |
Optical Society of America (OSA) |
1 |
2178 |
2178 |
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, |
1 |
687 |
687 |
Overview
With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Duisburg-Essen now looks as follows:
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

Average costs per year (in EURO)

Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
